sus can use me as a simple servant to take such feeble ones by the
hand and encourage and help them; to say, Oh, come, come, come, into the
presence of Jesus and wait on Him, and He will reveal Himself to thee. I
pray God that He may use His precious Word. It is simply

_The presence of the Lord Jesus._

That is the secret of the Christian's strength and joy. You know that
when He was upon earth, He was present in bodily form with his
disciples. They walked about together all day, and at night they went
into the same house, and sometimes slept together and ate and drank
together. They were continually together. It was the presence of Jesus
that was the training school of His disciples. They were bound to Him by
that wonderful intercourse of love during three long years, and in that
intercourse they learned to know Christ, and Christ instructed and
corrected them, and prepared them for what they were afterward to
receive. And now when He is going away, He says to them: "Lo, behold, I
am with you always--all the days--even unto the end of the world."

What a promise! And just as really as Christ was with Peter in the boat,
just as Christ sat with John at the table, as really can I have Christ
with me. And more really, for they had their Christ in the body and He
was to them a man, an individual separate from them, but I may have
glorified Christ in the power of the throne of God, the omnipotent
Christ, the omnipresent Christ.

What a promise! You ask me, How can that be? And my answer is, Because
Christ is God, and because Christ after having been made man, went up
into the throne and the Life of God. And now that blessed Christ Jesus,
with His loving, pierced heart; that blessed Jesus Christ, who lived
upon earth; that same Christ glorified into the glory of God, can be in
me and

_Can be with me all the days._

You say, Is it really possible for a man in business, for a woman in the
midst of a large and difficult household, for a poor man full of care;
is it possible? Can I always be thinking of Jesus? Thank God, you need
not always be thinking of Him. You may be the manager of a bank, and
your whole attention may be required to carry out the business that you
have to do. But thank God, while I have to think of my business, Jesus
will think of me, and He will come in and will take charge of me. That
little child, three months old, as it sleeps in its mother's arms, lies
helplessly there; it hardly knows its mother