(4) There is the way of submission and resistance. It is all
summed up in that word of St. James : " Submit yourselves
therefore unto God, but resist the devil." That is the way of
submission and resistance, and it is the secret of victory in the
1 J. D. Jones. 2 W. V. Robinson.
• Edwavdes, A Year on the Punjab Frontier, ii. 318 (Ruskin's Works, xxxi. 495).
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hour of fierce temptation. "Submit yourselves to God." Let us yield our nature absolutely and unreservedly to Him. Make an unconditional surrender. Then trust Him to come in the Person of His Spirit, and garrison every part of that yielded being, and undertake the battle for us. Then, when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. As the flood rushes onwards carrying everything before it, so the tempter comes upon men, if per- chance he may find them unprepared and sweep them off their feet. What happens to the man who is submitted to God? The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against the enemy. An ungrieved Spirit will always mean victory in the hour of temptation. First submit, and then resist. Trust Him to under- take the conflict and then resist.
Tf In an old Continental town they will show you a prison in a tower, and on all the stones of that prison within reach, one word is carved — it is "Eesist." Your guide will tell you that years ago a godly woman was for forty years immured in that dungeon, and she spent her time in cutting with a piece of iron on every stone that one word, for the strengthening of her own heart and for the benefit of all who might come after her, " Eesist I " " Eesist ! " " Eesist ! " 1
I hoped that with the brave and strong,
My portioned task might lie; To toil amid the busy throng,
With purpose pure and high;
But God has fixed another part,
And He has fixed it well ; I said so with my bleeding heart,
When first the anguish fell.
Thou, God, hast taken our delight,
Our treasured hope away; Thou bidst us now weep through the night
And sorrow through the day.
These weary hours will not be lost,
These days of misery, These nights of darkness, anguish-tossed,—
Can I but turn to Thee:
1 J. G. Mantle.
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With secret labour to sustain
In humble patience every blow,
To gather fortitude from pain,
And hope and holiness from woe.
Thus let me serve Thee from my heart, Whate'er may be my written fate:
Whether thus early to depart, Or yet a while to wait.
If Thou shouldst bring me back to life,
More humbled I should be, More wise, — more strengthened for the strife, —
More apt to lean on Thee:
Should death be standing at the gate,
Thus should I keep my vow: But, Lord ! whatever be my fate,
0 let me serve Thee now
1 Anne Bronte.
Man's Chief End.
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Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.— i Cor. x. 31.
This verse, with the passage immediately preceding, illustrates St. Paul's constant habit of solving questions as to conduct by the largest principles. He did not keep his theology and his ethics in separate watertight compartments, having no com- munication with each other. The greatest truths were used to regulate the smallest duties. Like the star that guided the Magi, they burned high in the heavens, but yet directed to the house in Bethlehem.