f Heaven;" "If ye were of the world,
then the world would love its own, but because I have chosen you
out of the world, the world persecuteth you;" "Ye, and all who
live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution, while evil
men and seducers wax worse and worse, deceiving and being
deceived."

The Son of God Himself, when He entered upon the duties of His
mission, was led into the wilderness, where He was tempted forty
days and nights, and when He was hungry and asked for bread He was
told, substantially, that if His mission was of God that God would
feed Him, that if hungry He could turn the stones to bread and eat.
I remembered that similar sayings had been thrown into our teeth.
These thoughts passed through my frame like electricity - or to use
the language of one of the old prophets, it was like fire shut up in
my bones; I felt renewed and refreshed from head to foot, and
determined to trust in the Arm that could not be broken; to conquer
and subdue the passions of my nature, and by the help of God to try
and bring them in subjection to the will of the Spirit, and not of
the flesh, which is carnal, sensual, and devilish. I determined that
there should be no lack on my part.

Daylight came at last, and we renewed our journey. I put a double
guard over those evil passions that were sown thickly in my
sinful nature. The passion most dreaded by me was the lust of the
flesh; that I knew to be the worst enemy to my salvation, and I
determined to master it, I have walked along in silence for
hours, with my heart lifted up to God in prayer, pleading with
Him to give me power over my passions and sinful desires, that I
might conquer and drive from my mind those besetting sins that
were continually warring with the Spirit, which, if cherished or
suffered to remain, would wound and grieve the Spirit and drive
it away. It is written, "My Spirit will not dwell in an unholy
temple." Jesus said to His followers that their bodies were the
temples of the Living God; that if they who had charge of those
temples, or bodies, allowed them to become unholy, He would
destroy that body; while to those who guarded their temples, and
kept them pure and holy, He and His Father would come and take up
their abode and dwell with them as a constant companion forever,
even unto the end, guiding them in all truth and showing them
things past, present, and to come. From day to day I kept my mind
in a constant strain upon this subject. Notw