ouldn't put out my fingers like that, for if I did, I would
drop my penny." He had been holding on to a penny all the time! No wonder
he could not withdraw his hand. How many of us are like him! Drop the
copper, surrender, let go, and God will give you gold.

Now let us note that the verb translated "yield" (Rom. vi. 13) and
"present" (Rom. xii. I) is not in the present tense in the original, as if
Paul said "be yielding," "keep presenting," but it is in the aorist tense,
the general force of which is a definite act, something done and finished
with. So that when the command, "Present yourself to God," is complied
with as far as one's light goes, the person is entitled to regard the
transaction as a completed act, and to say, "Yes, I have presented myself
to God." Then Faith presses on the heels of that statement and says, "God
has accepted what I have thus _presented_." It is absolutely necessary
that Faith be in lively exercise on this point, for what will be the
practical outcome of all my presenting if I do not believe that God takes
what I give? "Him that cometh unto Me I will in nowise cast out" is just
as appropriate to the saint seeking full salvation as to the sinner
seeking pardon. It is failure here, failure to apprehend by faith the fact
that God receives what I present, that has blocked progress for so many
of God's people who are truly desirous of living consecrated lives. From
this it will be seen that consecration is a crisis in the life of the
believer, just as cleansing is, and not a process; but it, too, "is a
crisis in order to a process."

_3. Transference of Ownership._

Consecration implies and involves transference of ownership. Many a
Christian is living to-day as if he were his own; but the consecrated
heart endorses the statement of the Divine Word: "Ye are not your own,
for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. vi. 19, 20). The consecrated man
looks upon himself as the absolute property of the Lord who bought him,
and his whole life is lived in the light of this fact.

_4. Enthroning Christ._

Consecration involves the "glorifying" of Christ, the "enthroning" Him,
the crowning of Jesus "Lord of all" in our own heart and life. "Crown Him,
crown Him, Lord of all;" "and," says Dr. Hudson Taylor, "if you do not
crown Him Lord _of all_, you do not crown Him Lord _at all_." This view
of consecration, with its accompanying