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bfie same aS the CDllO, aD0ub lbSeiI. IlaVc you ever observed how curiously the babe learns about itself?
 Hands are usually the first things it | discovers about itself. It may next dis cover that it has foot, which it will | often take and hold in both of it's chubby l hands, or place the big toe of it, in it's | mouth. By and by, it makes another 1 new discovery. This time it is the ton- que, and that like the foot has for time to serve as plaything. When little older, it's ma, or nurse, holds it up before the glass, and now for the first it learns l it has face. Thus by degrees the child learns about the parts of that wonderful body God has given it. It is not till much older that the thought of the unity of the body enters it's mind, and still later than that comes the consideration of that higher unity of the soul and body. Thus slowly, often in our earlier christian experience, comes to us a knowledge of the doctrines of the inner life. When we have this knowledge and
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 the doctrines, we are often thrown into perplexity about the relation in which they stand to each other. Could we at once grasp the thought that the Christian life is unit and that it is not put togeth- CT piece by piece like dolls body, but l rather is creation, and then harmon ious development of all the parts, our per- plexity would quick be at an end. | The thought may become clearer to | you, if for a moment we liken these doc- | trines to the colors of the rainbow. | I we'll remember with what delight I looked upon the rainbow when child. To me still, it is thing of joy and beau ty.
 1 Had any one in my childhood days ask ed me, whence came the colors of the rainbow, I should doubtless have said, that God borrowed the colors from the clouds to make it. It was not till was almost full grown boy, that I learned how the bow is formed.
 One day teacher in his attempt to ex- plain it said that every white ray of light contains seven colors. Had I uttered the thought that arose in my mind, which l came near doing, I should have said, It can't be! It is impossible! How can white be anything but white The teach CT saved all dispute about the matter by saying "When the class is over 1 will show you all about it.'' After class we were taken into darkened room, a single ray of light only was allowed to enter it This fell upon white screen which hung near the center of the room.
 The teacher took 6 glass prism anC held it so the ray of light had to past through it. As I now looked upon th' seven, to my astonishment, I saw th' screen colors of the rainbow. Not ye
 satisfied, turned and looked again a the white ray of light, then 1 looked carefully at the glass to see if it was no in some way colored, and then gazet again at the screen. There was no doubt ing now. It was evidently true. that il
 every white ray of light there are sever
 colors, and because of this the rain drop acting as so many prisms, make possible IOI ol tAAC po" III OIO Sloo05 Now substitute the word life for tha of light, and the seven cardinal doctrine of the inner life for the colors of the rain bow. These doctrines are, regeneration sanctification, justification, reconcilia tion, the spirit of adoption, sonship ant
 heirship.
 THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
 includes them all. They are found in i
 from the beginning and any true develop
 ment of the life will be an equal enlarge ment of all it contains.
 That they are all included in the reli gious life from it's beginning is eviden from the various ways Scripture speaks of the salvation by soul.
 Sometimes our salvation is spoken o1 as regeneration or the new birth, "Ye must be born again" sometimes as sane tification, 1.-The Sanctifcation of the Spirit and the belief of the truth Sometimes as justification, "Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God''; sometimes as reconciliation "All things are of God who hath recon ciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given unto us the university of re. conciliation.' Sometimes as adoption, "Ye have not received the spirit of bond. age again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father;' and lastly our salvation is sometimes spoken of as sonship, "Be- hold what manner of love God hath be- slowed on us that we should be called the sons of God," and Paul says elf sons then heirs," hence our heirship.
 These doctrines are all in unison one with another. They blend as harmoni- ouslJ as the colors of the rainbow
 Any proper development of the life must include them all. Any undue em- l phasis placed on any one of them, is sure in the end to mar the perfection of the l life.
 1 We may, like Martin Luther, give undue emphasis to justification by faith, or like John Wesley, we may give too great prominence to the doctrine of sanctifica- tion, or we may ascribe too much to the I work of regeneration. Our safety lies in magnifying the life as whole and seeing the unity of it's doctrines is main tained and in watching carefully over our spirits, lest something that ought not comes to have place in our thought and our hearts, or peradventure, lest something that is vital be
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