ave them. It is not anything that we can make. The great trouble with
many is that they are trying to make these graces. They are trying to
make love; they are trying to make peace; they are trying to make joy.
But they are not creatures of human planting. To produce them of
ourselves is impossible. That is an act of God. They come from above.
It is God who speaks the word and gives the love; it is God who gives
the peace; it is God who gives the joy, and we possess all by
receiving Jesus Christ by faith into the heart; for when Christ comes
by faith into the heart, then the Spirit is there, and if we have the
Spirit, we will have the fruit.

If the whole Church of God could live as the Lord would have them
live, why Christianity would be the mightiest power this world has
ever seen. It is the low standard of Christian life that is causing so
much trouble. There are a great many stunted Christians in the Church;
their lives are stunted; they are like a tree planted in poor soil--the
soil is hard and stony, and the roots can not find the rich loamy soil
needed. Such believers have not grown in these sweet graces. Peter, in
his second epistle, 1st chapter and 5th verse, writes:

"And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and
to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be
in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Now, if we have these things in us, I believe that we will be
constantly bringing forth fruit that will be acceptable with God. It
won't be just a little every now and then, when we spur ourselves up
and work ourselves up into a certain state of mind or into an excited
condition, and work a little while and then become cold, and
discouraged, and disheartened, but we shall be neither unfruitful nor
barren, bringing forth fruit constantly, we will grow in grace and be
filled with the Spirit of God.

WHAT WINS.

A great many parents have inquired of me how to win their children.
They say they have talked with them, and sometimes they have scolded
them and have lectured them, and signally failed. I think there is no
way so sure to win our families and our neighbors, and those about
whom we are anxious, to Christ, than just to adorn the doctrine of
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