St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-08
LITTLE BY LITTLE

LITTLE BY LITTLE
7 become conscious of his presence
in all my thinking, in all my loving,
in all my planning, in all my imagina-
ton, until l find that l am living con-
sciously in a world where God IS every
where present. He is no longer pres
ent merely in heaven; He is no longer
a king simply, but He is the power
that is in me, until l find it absolutely
impossible, after while, to think
anything without recognizing that God
is present there. and that l must think
as in His presence. We are hidden
to grow up into Christ, and we are
told that He has in himself the I'M
searchable riches of God. The intel
lect may get facts out of the universe,
but it gets personal life only out of
the Person who created the universe.
Every man as he approaches Christ
sees a larger man, larger, richer,
personal life, and as he catches
glimpses of that life, allows one fac
ulty of his nature after another to
go out in the study of it, he more
and more lifts himself, more and more
there is beginning to be a commences
of thought, communion of purpose,
"a communion of ambition, a com
munion of ideal, and he discovers,
after while, that Christ is living in
him, living
THROUGH HIS FACULTIES,
and he can say as he never could say
before, Christ liveth in me; It's not
l that live
Lies ability is moi in what one
knows; it is in the highest use of
knowledge. 1t is not what you know
about Christ; it is what use YOU put
it to- You may know that He died
upon the cross; you may know tina t
He rose from the dead; you may know
that He is the noblest of the sons of
men; you may know that He is the
Son OF the living God, your Savior.
mat is not enough. That is the be-
ginning of what may be enough. You
must go farther You must let Him
come down until He takes possession
OF your inmost life, and you walk in
fellowship with Him, conscious of this
great rich world that is above Won
more and more getting it's riches. it's
resources, down into your life. Won
hho" II can be done. You know that
IS just the difference between Chris.
tians. No need to tell you what is
the dlfterence between the man who
aoes ms christian duty as a task that
is laid upon him, and the man who
does MS Christian duty from the very
dellght there is in living that wav
NO need to tell you the difference be-
tween the man who refuses to do evil
because 1T is evil and the man who doas
good and keeps from evil because If
ms absorption in good There is an
Infinite difference.
The life that
is SELF-SATISFIED
the lie that merely keeps the COM
mandments, the life that is marol,,
harmonious on low plane If is y
good life. but it is not the hest life
Ihere may be no disturbance between
your conscience and your desire. be-
tween your desire and your will
1our judgment may approve of what
you are doing, and all the powers of
the lie may be in harmony. That is
peace, but 1t is peace on the low level
and there is danger in a life becominp
satisfied with itself. We are com.
| manded by infinite love to grow into
the fullness of a perfect man in Christ
Jesus, and we are told away ur
| there in that fellowship, in that hiph
stature, there is unity of the faith a nd
J OF the knowledge of the Son of Cod
which gives perfect life, perfect neace
the perfecting of the saints. the edi.
| fication of the body of Christ. the
building up into likeness with Christ
That is the goal. How attain to If,
| By the ministries of Gods house hy
the teaching of Gods word, by the
daily service, by the DEVELOPMENT ri
every power of the life, but not least
by that calm, quiet mediation = the
most difficult, the most profound ac
ton of the human mind-the intellec
tual and the spiritual powers coins
together down through subject unit
| that
SUBJECT is MASTERED
and held completely in the conscious
/ ness; that meditation, sitting dow,
quietly and recognizing Gods presence
and in that presence thinking through
and through of all the relations tn
person your own souD holds with God