ls in God's presence, and the Holy Spirit will fill
us, to work in us, and out of us in a way that we have never yet known.

Jesus got this divine life by depending absolutely upon the Father all His
life long, depending upon Him even down into death. Jesus got that life
in the full glory of the Spirit to be poured out, by giving Himself up in
obedience and surrender to God alone, and leaving God even in the grave to
work out His mighty power; and that very Christ will live out His life in
you and me. Oh, the mystery! Oh, the glory! And oh, the Divine certainty.
Jesus Christ means to live out that life in you and me. What think you,
ought we not to humble ourselves before God? Have we been Christians so
many years, and realized so little what we are? I am a vessel set apart,
cleansed, emptied, consecrated; just standing, waiting every moment for
God, in Christ, by the Holy Spirit, to work out in me as much of the
holiness and the life of His Son as pleases Him. And until the Church of
Christ comes to go down into the grave of humiliation, and confession, and
shame; until the Church of Christ comes to lay itself in the very dust
before God, and to wait upon God to do something new, and something
wonderful, something supernatural, in lifting it up, it will remain
feeble in all its efforts to overcome the world. Within the Church what
lukewarmness, what worldliness, what disobedience, what sin! How can we
ever fight this battle, or meet these difficulties? The answer is: Christ,
the risen One, the crowned One, the almighty One, must come, and live in
the individual members. But we can not expect this except as we die with
Him. I referred to the tree grown so high and beautiful, with its roots
every day for a hundred years in the grave in which the acorn died.
Children of God, we must go down deeper into the grave of Jesus. We must
cultivate the sense of impotence, and dependence, and nothingness, until
our souls walk before God every day in a deep and holy trembling. God keep
us from being anything. God teach us to wait on Him, that He may work in us
all He wrought in His Son, till Christ Jesus may live out His life in us!
For this may God help us!

CHRIST'S HUMILITY OUR SALVATION.

VII.

_Philippians 2: 5-8_.--"_Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ
Jesus. He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross_."

All are familiar with this wonderful passage. Paul is speaking