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the victory, through our LORD Jesus Cnr1SG,
the gates of the New Jerusalem will hoist,
and there shall be an abundant entrance
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord,
toward which you do well to keep your
windows open.
Beecherss Sermon.
NEW YORK, Oct. Al wish to call your
attention this morning, said Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, to what l think may prop
erly be called the great prayer, PauFS great
prayer. You will find it in the Third chap
ter of Epheslans, fourteenth to the twenty
first verses:
For this cause I bow my knees unto the
father Of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named.
That He would grant you, according to the
riches of His glory, to be strengthened with
the might of His spirit in the inner man.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith,
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth and length and depth and
height, and to know the love of Christ, which
is passeth knowledge, that ye might be filed
with the fullness of God. Now unto Him that
is able to, exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power
that WOrlleth in US, unto Him be glory in the
church by Jesus Christ, throughout all ages.
world without end, amen.
Contrast this with the Lords prayer.
Simple and tranquil that is, and yet how
deep. The tranquil nature Of Christ was
token of immense elevation, sign of
dignity Those that live lower down in the
convolutions of time are of necessity strug-
Cling for higher and higher birth. There
can be no internal struggle in the true di-
vine nature. PauEs prayer, like Paul him
self, is full of emotion, high, sublime emo
ton. This is rather description of his
habit of prayer than record OF
ANY ONE SINGLE PRAYER.
The world was lost to his thought in
such moods as these. He had risen above
the earth and his thoughts moved in the
serene twilight, where God dweHs Fol-
lowing his own longings and iovings, lie
pourS forth his supplication for his beloved
and in them we may form some conception
Of what are the moods of guardian angels
and their implorations for their earthly
wards. This is what he bows his
knee for: That He would grant you
according to the riches of His spirit in the
inner man." 1t is not prayer for help or
prosperity. nor outward comforts. Lawful
as they are, they were forgotten in the
supreme importance of these higher ele-
mentS-elementS of reason. of conscience,
of love, of faith, of joy, the radiant ele-
mentS of the soul. 1t is feeble text to say
that man is made in the image of God. and
| therefore capable of understanding Him.
The God we understand is God that has
been reproduced in ourselves, not in regard
| to physical attributes, but in regard to
moral quality; and the way we are taught
to understand God is that he comes to US
and works out in US goodness, and then we
begin to understand divine goodness. He
works in us patience, and then we begin to
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| HE WORKS IN Us JOY,
and divine joy flashes to our view. He
works in us all the qualities of the inner
man, and in these we have the revelation
in us of divine nature. No man could ever
| think out God. He is unthinkable. No
man ever can find out the lines of divine
| being, the latitude and longitude. No man
| could ever mark out the circuit and orb of
the divine nature by the percipience of the
| perceptive faculties, nor by the reasoning
power of the intellectual faculties. 1t is
not by philosophical investigation that man
ever came to the knowledge of God, and
| system makers that attempt to limit and de-
fine and accurately set off here and there,
of necessity they are bunglers. Great men
and geniuses have wrought upon it for
| thousands of years, but their method is
| wrong. They fail to understand in the be-
| ginning that the way of understanding God
| is the way of our own interior life, and
that we come to the knowledge of God
through having the divine elements located
in us, and the quarreling fighting, snarl-
! ing, suspicious theologian that runs hound
like after every hereto, he can understand
the devil very well, but he cannot under
stand God. The men that are
NOT KNOWN IN THE WORLD,
the humble men, the untaught men, but
that are filled with the divine nature, Tich
in the inner man, they are the theologians,
only they can't teach, but they understand
because they feel and we feel God before
ever we understand Him, and he that has
not in himself the divine elements he stands
outside and only just in the proportion in
! which Christ has come to us by an indwell-
| ing spirit and wrought out in US something
| of Himself. That something of Christ in us
is the hope of glory not only, but it is the
| tTueSt ideal that we ever have in regard to
our God. His outward existence, what
might be called His physical attributes,
those are comprehensive. 1t may be by
our ordinary and mundane reason, but thai
which is the glory of God, as the disposi
ton, is the glory of man; that which is re-
ality, the interior God, as it were, thai
no man can come to except he uses the lens
of experience, and that experience is to be
wrought him by the all-power Of Christ and
the spirit of God. We should Danish the
idea that we are working on pay. and thai
God has said to US: 'sIf you will
DENY THE FLESH
and accept the spirit, l will make it worth
your while. Come, let us reason together.
1 have got splendid mansion in the heav-
ems, and if you will work for Me on eartf
in yourself and as ever against it, wher
you die you shall go to heaven" Now it is
very well for every man to live for immor-
tality, but there is a great deal between
commercial compilation in that way and The
inspiration of higher feeling. rejoice il
hoping and believing that my name is writ
ten in the Lambs book of life, but it is no
because 1 am going to heaven that l try tx
develop virtue, patience, faith and love; bu
because they are intrinsically beautiful ant
because in doing so I shall please God.
would seek to live pure life and spiritua
life if there were no God and if there were
no life hereafter for the intrinsic excellence
and worthiness of these things. The highe
life of the soul is the real life, and it is {
life of real power; and when recognized
developed, accepted by faith. it dominate.
over every other, and sin itself is suppressed
and trodden under foot. The power o
Jesus Christ in the human soul sets the maj
free from the whole power of animalism il