s the very essence
and glory of Christianity, "that God may be all in all." And now, if this
is what fills the heart of Christ; if this expresses the one end of the
work of Christ, then, if I want to have the spirit of Christ in me, the
motto of my life must be: Everything made subject, and swallowed up in Him,
"that God may be all in all." What a triumph it would be if the Church were
fighting really with that banner floating over her! What a life ours could
be if that were really our banner! To serve God fully, wholly, only, to
have Him all in all! How it would ennoble, and enlarge, and stimulate our
whole being! I am working, I am fighting, "that God may be all in all;"
that the day of glory may be hastened. I am praying, and the Holy Spirit
makes His wrestling in me with unutterable longing, "that God may be all
in all." Would that we Christians realized in connection with what a grand
cause we are working and praying; that we had some conception of what
a Kingdom we are partakers of, and what a manifestation of God we are
preparing for. To illustrate what a grand thing it is to belong to the
Kingdom of God, and to the glorious Church of Christ on earth, John McNeill
tells how when he was a boy twelve years of age, working on a railway line
and earning the grand wages of six shillings a week, he used to go home to
his mother and sisters, who thought no end of their little Johnnie, and
delight them by telling of the position he had. He would say with great
pride, "Oh, our company--it has so many thousands of pounds passing
through its hands every year; it carries so many hundreds of thousands of
passengers every year; and it has so many miles of railway, and so many
engines and carriages; and so many thousands in its employ!" And the mother
and the sisters had great pride in him, because he was a partner in such an
important business. Christians, if we would only rouse ourselves to believe
that we belong to the Kingdom that Christ is preparing to deliver up to the
Father, that God may be all in all, how the glory would fill our hearts,
and expel everything mean, and low, and earthly! How we should be borne
along in this blessed faith! I am living for this: that Christ may have the
Kingdom to deliver to the Father. I am living for this, and I will one day
see Him made subject to the Father, and then God all in all. I am living
for Him, and I shall be there not only as a witness, but I will have a part
in it all. The King