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ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD 
 
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 BY 
 
 C. B. KEENLEYSIDE, B.A., B.D., 
 
 '. -' • TLe Upper and the Nether Springs." 
 
 .fH rjTRODUCTION BY 
 
 N. BURWASH, S.T.D., LL.D., 
 
 Chancellor Victoria University. 
 
 " Enoch walked with God ; and he was not ; for God took him." 
 
 — Gen. J : 24. 
 
 " Room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.' 
 —Bunyan, in '• Grace Abounding" 
 
 TORONTO: 
 
 WILLI\M BRIGGS. 
 
 1902. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A book on the hidden life can only be written 
 o. i of the heart. No theological dogma, no 
 philosophical theory, can set forth that which to 
 be known must be experienced. Hence the task 
 before the writer of such a book is, of all others, 
 the most difficult His soul, rather than his 
 reason, must speak, and often its utterances will 
 far transcend that which to reason would seem 
 possible. And yet they must not be the mere 
 fancies or flights of imagir. ition, but the things 
 which, to the inner vision of fait^, ha-'c proved 
 themselves sure and certain in the sternest and 
 often sorest experiences of life. The full assur- 
 ance of faith alone can give the confidence of 
 authority to this Divine truth. To declare this 
 truth one must have been taught of God ; and 
 many times God's school tries the hearts and 
 reins. The lessons are learned upon the rack of 
 pain, under the shadow of night, or by the open 
 grave. The words unfold not the speculations 
 of a dream, but the tragedy of a soul's inmost 
 
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 life. The training for such a work is God's 
 hand upon us. But there is another side to the 
 production of such a work — the side not of the 
 writer but of the reader. To him the book may 
 seem fanciful, enthusiastic, extravagant, unless 
 he is carried forward in the full sympathy of a 
 common faith and experience with the writer. 
 Hence the writer must speak not only out of 
 the heart, but in such a way as to reach the 
 heart. His words must be in demonstration of 
 the spirit, otherwise they seem to be but foolish- 
 ness to the natural understanding. Such a work 
 as the one before us thus requires, above all 
 other things, the child-like receptive; s'^irit ; not 
 a spirit of credulity, but a spirit r eadj' to receive 
 the truth in the love of it. 
 
 The little book before us has another aspect 
 not less important than this spiritual and ex- 
 perimental character. It sets before us not only 
 an inward spiritual life, a high and holy com- 
 munion with God, the joyous assurance of a 
 lofty religious faith, but also an ideal of duty, a 
 perfection of the nractical Christian life on the 
 same exalted plar- The place of the deeper 
 spiritual life is the immediate presence chamber 
 of God. In the light of that presence, faith has its 
 clearest vision and its strongest assurance, and 
 out of that faith love, joy • d peace spring in 
 
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 their fulness of strength and tx:rfection. But 
 here also the vision of duty is equally clear and 
 perfect The genuineness of the faith and love 
 which brought forth no fruit except that of in- 
 ward satisfaction might very well he called in 
 question. And the test of inward experience 
 is to be found not solely in ability to endure 
 sore afflictions and, like Job, possess ou. souls 
 in patient faith. There must be, along with 
 these, the call to duty. "Go sell whatsoever 
 thou hast and give to the poor and ^hou sh't 
 have treasure in heaven, and come '^.ow me." 
 High, clear, perfect conceptions of duty, a true 
 spiritual understanding, as far from fanatical 
 narrowness as from latitudinarian license, or 
 worldly complaisance, is one of the most im- 
 portant elements of Christian perfection. And 
 parallel with that view of duty is the moral 
 strength, the courage and self-denial which 
 takes up the consecrated Cross. The visio . of 
 the holy becomes the searchlight of condemna- 
 tion to the soul which cannot respond. Here am 
 I, Lord, send me. 
 
 To this moral side of our religious nature the 
 little book before us makes a strong appeal. It 
 has its message of strength to the weak, of rest 
 to the weary, of comfort to the sorrowing, -^f 
 faith and hope and peace to all ; but it has, 
 
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 above all this, its call to work for God, its ex- 
 hortation to the highest and most absolute con- 
 secration of life to service. This is, perhaps, 
 the noblest note in the higher Christian life of 
 to-day. Past ages have given us wonderful 
 visions of faith and raptures of joy, but the 
 noblest ambition of our present-day Christianity 
 is to follow Christ in the life of service. " Even 
 as the Son of Man came not to be ministered 
 unto but to minister, and to give his life a ran- 
 som for many." To this life may these pages 
 lead a noble army of the consecrated young life 
 of to-day. 
 
 N. BURWASH. 
 
 Victoria College, 
 
 June, 1902. 
 
ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD. 
 
 " What doth the Lord require of thee, O Man, but to 
 do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with 
 thy God?" (Micah 6 : 8— R.V.). 
 
 WH AT a figure appears in the gloom I We 
 peer back into the shadowy dawn of 
 time, back of the middle ages, back of the Chris- 
 tian era, back of the prophets, back of the 
 kings, back of the exodus, back of the patriarchs, 
 back of the flood, back, back almost to Edenic 
 days, and see looming out of the mists the 
 gigantic outlines of this wondrous man, a model 
 for all men in all ages, for he walked with God. 
 His biography is one of the briefest and most 
 pregnant ever penned, and while the earth re- 
 
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 volves no higher tribute can be paid to mortal 
 man. Just twelve words. But such words ! 
 
 Enoch walked with God : 
 And he was not ; 
 For God took him. 
 
 Think yourself back into his day. Divest 
 yourself, if you can, of all you know of litera- 
 ture, art, science, languages, the amenities of 
 life and of God. Cut down your comprehensive 
 vocabulary to a few needful words, dropping out 
 all abstract and spiritual conceptions, surround 
 yourself with ignorance, vice, superstition and 
 idolatry, and then think of the great soul of this 
 lonely man, with its yearning for the divine, 
 gaining, amid the prevailing darkness, so clear 
 and vivid a view of God that it could be said of 
 him, he walked with God. While the human 
 race was still in the go-cart, this the highest aim, 
 the gladdest hope, the most rapturous privilege 
 of the sons of men, was attained by Enoch. 
 Can as much be said of us who are the " heirs of 
 all the ages in the foremost files of time " ? 
 
 Walking with God is not the dream of a 
 dreamer, who dreams he has been dreaming, nor 
 is it a sublime privilege only, but a duty, as im- 
 perative and binding as the will and the com- 
 mands of the eternal God can make it upon 
 the souls and consciences of free and rational 
 
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 beings. God will not coerce us, for if He 
 did our walking with Him would have no 
 moral or spiritual quality. We are responsible 
 for nothing that we cannot control, and if we 
 walked with God perforce we would be auto- 
 mata, not men. The stars that sweep in their 
 majestic course through the fathomless abyss of 
 space never wander from their paths, because 
 they cannot Impelled by an irresistible force, 
 they march in their God-directed way, never 
 deviating a hair's breadth from the path in- 
 tended ; hence their rectitude being compulsory 
 has no moral or ethical value. But man is a 
 free agent and responsible for his actions, there- 
 fore he must bring his will over to the side of 
 God and zf /// to walk with him. 
 
 " He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; 
 and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to 
 do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk hum- 
 bly with thy God ? " (Micah 6 : 8— R.V.). 
 
 Walking with God has ever been the hope 
 and the aim of His people. The records say 
 that Noah walked with God ; and Abraham, in 
 sending his servant on a mission, encouraged 
 him thus : " Jehovah, before whom I zva/k, will 
 send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way." 
 And prior to this the Lord had appeared to 
 Abraham and announced : " I am the AU-suffi- 
 
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 cient God ; walk before me, and be thou perfect." 
 The men of Jeremiah's day besought the 
 prophet that he would pray God to show them 
 the way wherein they should walk, and the 
 things that they should do (Jer. 42 : 3.) 
 
 To the men of Hosea's day God said : " For 
 I am God, ... the Holy One in the midst 
 of thee : . . . walk after Jehovah. The ways 
 of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in 
 them." 
 
 Isaiah's ringing appeal to his people found ex- 
 pression thus : " O house of Jacob, come ye, and 
 let us walk in the light of Jehovah." 
 
 Moses, in his sublime valedictory, declares : 
 " What doth Jehovah thy God require cf thee, 
 but to fear Jehovah thy God and to walk in all 
 His ways." 
 
 Paul thus writes to the Colossians : " As 
 therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so 
 walk in Him." And to the Corinthians he 
 wrote : " And God said, I will dwell in them 
 and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and 
 they shall be my people." 
 
 To those in Sardis who had not defiled their 
 garments the spirit wrote : " They shall walk 
 with me in white ; for they are worthy." 
 
 And through the mouth of the inspired Psalm- 
 ist, Jehovah says : " Oh, that my people would 
 
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 hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in n ^ 
 ways." 
 
 God is looking for men and women to walk 
 with Him ; men and women whon'^ He can 
 trust, whom He can fill with His spirit and en- 
 due with His power. 
 
 Would it not be glorious to be one of them ? 
 
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CHAPTER II. 
 
 GOD'S FELLOW-WORKERS. 
 
 "We arc God's fellow-workers; . . . God's tilled 
 land ; God's building" (i Cor. 3 •• 9-RV. margin). 
 
 WALKING with God, .irst of all presup- 
 poses agreement. Can two walk to- 
 gether unless they are agreed? Now God's 
 plans are for the redemption and salvation of 
 the race, and so much is this upon God's heart 
 that to accomplish it He gave up to death His 
 only begotten son. We cannot walk with Him 
 unless and until we accept for ourselves God's 
 prodigal and wondrous provisions for our soul's 
 salvation. This is the one great and prevailing 
 heresy— lack of faith in God and in His Christ. 
 Further than this, God means to save more 
 than our souls. He means to save our lives. In 
 a city mission in - American college town, the 
 writer once hearo an aged man thank God for 
 having saved his soul after a life of dissipation. 
 
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 His parents were sent in grief to their resting- 
 place under the rain and the dew ; his wife, with 
 weary frame and aching heart, toiled for years 
 in poverty to support the family and maintain 
 the home, and then followed his parents to the 
 grave ; the children, in fear and trembling, hid 
 in their rags and their squalor from his presence ; 
 but at last he threw himself upon the infinite 
 love and mercy of God, and his soul was saved 
 through the efficacy of the blood of Jesus. But 
 the life was gone. The years were wasted. He 
 could not roll back the past, nor give life and 
 happiness to the departed. His children had 
 gone into the world with their taint and their 
 memories, and his many evil deeds lived to 
 reproduce and multiply in other liv s through- 
 out the coming years. No doubt it was a won- 
 derful thing for him to be arresVr ^ in his evil 
 course and be saved, and he had ^reat cause to 
 throw himself in gratitude and thanksgiving 
 before his Father in heaven for His grace and 
 mercy. But how much more glorious and more 
 in accord with the divine ideal would it have 
 been if his life, as well as his soul, had been 
 saved? What a different story his life would 
 have told if, instead of following his own evil 
 will and walking athwart God's path, he had in 
 early life trustingly placed his hand in God's 
 
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 and walked with Him in the halcyon days of 
 youth and in the strength and glory of his 
 prime, as well as in the weary days of age and 
 weakness. He would have been saved from 
 threescore years of shame, from evil deeds with 
 an eternal harvest, from a saddened life and a 
 ruined home. Walking with God would not 
 only have saved his soul, but, what i" infinitely 
 more glorious, it would have saved his life. 
 
 " Then had his peace been calm as a river, and 
 his righteousness would have abounded as the 
 waves of the sea." 
 
 Our Master said : " I am come that ye might 
 have life, and that more abundantly." 
 
 The confidence of the inspired Psalmist broke 
 forth in these words : Yea, the Lord shall give 
 that which is good. 
 
 Righteousness shall go before him ; 
 
 And shall make his footsteps a way to walk 
 
 in. 
 
 Yes, and even more than saved lives. God 
 means us to be life-savers, for, wonderful to tell, 
 He has put upon us the glory of being workers 
 with Him for the advancement of His glory, in 
 the spread of His kingdom and the salvation of 
 men. Now, by this we do not mean that all are 
 to be flaming evangels, proclaiming the good 
 news no/ens vo/ens, but rather that we should be 
 
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willing to be this or anything else that would 
 lead men to Jesus Christ— vessels of honor or of 
 dishonor, if only Christ were glorified. And 
 having gifts differing according to the grace 
 that was given to us, whether prophesy accord- 
 ing to the proportion of our faith, or ministry, let 
 us give ourselves to our ministry, or he that 
 teacheth to his teachings, or he that exhorteth 
 to his exhortation. He that givefh, let him do 
 it with liberality ; he that ruleth,with diligence ; 
 he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. 
 
 We need not sit idly by with folded hands 
 and refuse to work in the Master's vineyard 
 because we have not the brains of a Paul, or the 
 eloquence of a Barnabas. Had God wished us 
 to be endowed w* h their gifts He would have 
 so endowed us, for giving docs not impoverish 
 Him, neither withholding His hand enrich Him. 
 We are not responsible for talents we do not 
 possess, neither is it our work to "remake our- 
 selves, but to make the absolute best of what 
 God made." How sadly shorn of beauty and of 
 fragrance this old world would be if the only 
 flowers that bloomed were the roses, and how 
 we would miss the other songsters of the woods 
 and the meadows if the only birds that sang 
 were the skylarks. To complete God's glorious 
 world we need not only the roses and the sky- 
 
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 larks, but also " the meanest flower that blows " 
 and the humblest songsters of the glade, that 
 
 " Singing up to heaven's gates ascend. 
 Bear on their wings and in their notes 
 His praise." 
 
 Rev. Hugh Price Hughes recently said: 
 " Thank God for men who touch the skies, who 
 break the monotony of life, who inspire and 
 thrill ; but what a dreadful world it would be if 
 we were all geniuses ! The world needs more 
 commonplace people than great ones, and that 
 is why there are more of them. The little, 
 quiet, noiseless, unmarked life counts for much ; 
 there is a sacredness in its song of the common- 
 place. There are compensations, too, in such a 
 life, for if you have less conflict, you have more 
 communion. Life is less fevered, less fierce. If 
 thou canst not fight the Master's battle, thou 
 canst sit at the Master's feet and listen to His 
 voice. Genius costs. Don't cry out, therefore, 
 if your life lies on the level. God bless the folks 
 that are never in the way— and never out of it ; 
 for the gentle folks who make no ado, who bring 
 a hush into one's life ; who belong to the com- 
 mon people." 
 
 Grand old Samuel Johnson used to say : " He 
 
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 who waits to do a great deal of good will never 
 
 °The ravens fed Elijah, the dove brought the 
 message of hope at the deluge, the sparrows 
 were used by Christ to illustrate the love of God. 
 A small ark, a little girl, a wee baby's tears and 
 the mother instinct were used by God to save 
 Moses and thus to free Israel. The two loaves 
 and five small fishes were not of much account 
 in themselves, but passing through the hands 
 of Christ they fed the multitudes. Ehud was 
 left-handed and Gideon the least in his fathers 
 house, ^.e your. If-your highest, noblest sdf- 
 that is all God warts. He made you. For behold 
 your calling, brethren, that not many wise after 
 the flesh.not many noble are called, but God chose 
 the foolish things of the world that he might 
 put to shame them that are wise; and God 
 chose the weak things of the world that he 
 might put to shame the things that are strong ; 
 and the base things of the world and the things 
 that are despised, did God choose ; ye£. ne 
 
 things that are not that He might . ^g to 
 nought the things that are ; that no flesh should 
 glory before God. He that glorieth let him 
 
 glory in the Lord. 
 
 When a certain good friend of mine was con- 
 
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 verted, his pastor asked him if he wouldn't do 
 some work for Christ. 
 
 '• Oh," replied he, " I cannot do any work for 
 the Lord, 1 have no ability that way." 
 
 On being further pressed, he said : " Well, I 
 m'ght, perhap.' give a pail of water to a thirsty 
 
 horse." 
 
 " All right," responded his pastor, " that would 
 not be a bad place to begin." He did begin, it 
 is needless to say where or how, but he began 
 humbly, and this man who thought that the 
 giving of a pail of water to some thirsty horse 
 was the limit of his power, was so used by God 
 that when he moved from the city in which he 
 had lived for some years, there assembled «t 
 the dep6t to wish him God-speed one of the 
 strangest and most motley gatherings ever 
 witnessed, including reclaimed gamblers, bar- 
 tenders, blacklegs and backsliders, who had been 
 brought into the light by his instrumentality. 
 
 Truly, the humbler the instrument the more 
 glory to Him who wields it. 
 
 In the passage at the head of this chapter, 
 Paul says that we are "God's tilled land " (R.V. 
 margin). This is a figure of wondrous beauty 
 and meaning. Not wild land of little or no 
 value, bringing forth noxious weeds, the home 
 of the coyotes and the haunt of the buzzards, 
 
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 but a tilled field, worked, cultivated and guarded 
 by the divine husbandman himself, who knows 
 the crop each soil is best adapted for and the 
 kind of cultivation each soil needs to do its best 
 producing. More than this. He knows the time 
 to plow and harrow, and roll and plan', and 
 water and reap. If a farmer should go to his 
 wheat field in the time of harvest expcctmg to 
 reap a bountiful crop of golden grain, and should 
 find the land bare or covered only with weeds, 
 how disgusted he would be after all his labor. 
 He tills his land for one, and for only one, purpose 
 —that he may receive the fruit of the soil. And 
 we are God's tilled field ; tilled in cMer that we 
 may bring forth fi uit Let us see to it that, like 
 the faithful soil, we yield our strength and fer- 
 tility to the divine tilling, and we shall inevitably 
 be richer, stronger, purer, yes, and diviner there- 
 for. 
 
 « We live in deeds, not years ; in thought, not breaths ; 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; 
 We should count time by heart's throbs. He most 
 
 lives V u .» 
 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
 
 What doth Jehovah require of thee, 
 O Man, but to do justly, and to love 
 
 KINDNESS, and TO WALK HUMBLY WITH THY 
 
 God. 
 
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CHAPTER III. 
 
 GOING GODS WAY. 
 
 " Lead, Saviour, lead me home in childlike faith, 
 Home to my God ! 
 To rest forever after earthly strife 
 In the calm light of everlasting life." 
 
 — Newman. 
 
 WALKING with God means going God's 
 way ; being in the sweep of His provi- 
 dence, in the great gulf-stream of His purpose, 
 in the all-conquering march of His plans, for 
 our God is marching on. It means giving up 
 our plans for His, which are vastly better. My 
 thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my 
 ways your ways ; for as the heavens are higher 
 than the earth, so are my ways than your ways, 
 and my thoughts than your thoughts. It means 
 waiting for marching orders — " he that believeth 
 shall not make ' ;te " — opening each new day 
 in the quiet expectation that He will reveal 
 His ways, entering upon no engagement, going 
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 no change in our plans or our station in life 
 without first laying it all before Him and wait- 
 ing for guidance; discussing with Him each 
 proposed plan, each new suggestion, each busi- 
 ness proposal, each domestic detail, each hope 
 for His kingdom, like Hezekiah spreading be- 
 fore Him the disturbing letter that demands a 
 reply, talking with Him over all the detail of 
 life, and waiting for Him to reveal His will. 
 Don't be in a hurry. Give His gracious spirit 
 time to reveal His ways. Don't make your 
 plans and ask God to bless them, but look to 
 Him in confident trust that He will Himself do 
 the planning, for His plans are best and are 
 never out of date. 
 
 " Choose for me, Lord, nor let my weak preferring. 
 Cheat me of good Thou hast for me designed ; 
 Choose for me. Lord, Thy wisdom is unerring, 
 While I am a fool and blind." 
 
 If you are honestly desirous of knowing and 
 doing God's will, and are in doubt about the 
 course to take, do not take any. If the road 
 forks, and two or more ways appear equally wise 
 and right and you are perplexed, ask God to 
 block up all but the right road. Stand still. 
 Throw upon God the burden of making His 
 way known to you. Wait until He does ; but 
 wait in prayer and faith. He has undertaken 
 
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 to guide and He will do it. He will be no lag- 
 gard. It was He who said : 
 
 " In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He 
 will direct thy paths." 
 
 "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the 
 way that thou shalt go." 
 
 " I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee." 
 
 "Thine ear shall hear a word behind thee 
 saying, this is the way, walk thou in it, when 
 thou turn to the right hand or to the left." 
 
 If you cannot stand still, but must decide and 
 act, then dare to believe that God will make 
 clear to you His way before it is too late. He 
 never yet deceived the trusting heart. He may 
 keep you waiting, but He will not disappoint. 
 The word may fail you until the last second of 
 the last minute of the eleventh hour, but before 
 that fatal second strikes, God's light-winged, 
 white-robed messengers will whisper to your 
 soul, this is the way, walk thou in it. Hold to 
 this. Dare to believe it. Rest in the Lord and 
 wait patiently for Him, for the Lord is not slack 
 concerning His promises as some count slack- 
 ness. 
 
 God never is before His time, 
 And never is behind. 
 
 The day these words were written, and soon 
 after they were put on paper there came to the 
 
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 writer's ncace the case of a man in Montreal 
 whose experience beautifully illustrates this prin- 
 ciple. He had been asked to join another man in 
 a business. It was legitimate and looked promis- 
 ing and profitable. He had trouble in deciding. 
 As was his wont he had talked it all over with 
 the Master, but still had no light. The day 
 came when he was to meet his friend and give 
 a decided answer. The hour was approaching 
 and he put on his hat and street coat and started 
 to keep the appointment, still in the dark as to 
 what he ought to do. He walked almost to the 
 office of the other, and as he was about to turn 
 at his door the impression was flashed into his 
 soul that he ought not to go on with the 
 arrangerr ent. He declined the offer for no con- 
 vincing reason that he could see. In a short 
 time, however, the venture which had promised 
 so well went down in failure. Yes ! God meant 
 it when He said, " In all thy ways acknowledge 
 him, and he will direct thy paths." Do not be 
 impatient if the way does not open up at your 
 first request. Wait ; for God's couriers may even 
 now be on their way. " He that believeth shall 
 nr .nake haste." 
 
 When Israel started from Sinai to Canaan, 
 Moses, fearing the untried way over the track- 
 less wilderness, said to his brother-in-law, " Come 
 
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 thou with us, and thou shalt be to us instead of 
 eyes." The young prince of the desert who, no 
 doubt, knew every foot of the untracked waste 
 and could have led the hosts by the smooths t 
 way, the sweetest water-springs, the greenest 
 herbage, and to the safest and most winsome 
 camping places, bluntly answered, " I will not 
 go." How human and natural the request was ! 
 How men in all ages have preferred the visible 
 and tangible to the spiritual and the unseen, and 
 to-day thousands of God's children seek for 
 human guides and ask counsel of human wis- 
 dom, when the Divine Guide waits at their door, 
 and divine wisdom is an infallible and exhaust- 
 less store-house ready to be drawn upon. 
 Natural and human as the request was, God had 
 a better plan for their guidance. The ark of 
 the covenant went before them to find a resting 
 place, and above them as they journeyed was 
 spread the protecting cloud, tempering the mid- 
 day sun and giving cool and refreshing shelter 
 to the tired and footsore hosts. The pilgrims 
 were ever behind the ark a full three days. Is 
 there no lesson here for those who wish to walk 
 with God ? He Himself will seek out the rest- 
 ing places for those who follow the ark of the 
 covenant, and above will be spread the protect- 
 ing cloud of His presence. Our place is to 
 
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 patiently follow the ark, and not to lead it. It 
 may go slower than we wish. We may be in a 
 hurry to reach a camping place, or to have done 
 with the wilderness journey, but the only place 
 of safety is behind the ark. On the other hand, 
 the children of Israel had to follow in order to 
 be guided. Had they failed to follow, then 
 their guiding light would have faded and the 
 cloud would have dissolved into thin air and the 
 presence of Jehovah would have been with- 
 drawn. And the same is true of us. We must 
 follow the light we have, and do it promptly and 
 unhesitatingly, lead it never so strangely, then 
 
 Launch your vessel 
 And crowd your canvas, 
 And, ere it vanishes 
 Over the margin, 
 After it ! follow it ! 
 Follow the gleam. 
 
 Having once been convinced of God's will in 
 a given matter we should resolutely go forward. 
 Never quest! id never doubt. GoJ will not 
 make a mista. nor will Hv Jlow us to. Diffi- 
 culties in the way p/ove nothing, least of all do 
 they prove that we are wrong. Any other 
 course would have had more and greater ones, 
 and the difficulties we meet are just the ones 
 needful to strengthen our faith and develop our 
 
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 characters. God was undoubtedly leading the 
 Childrcnof Israel in their march from the Red Sea 
 to Mount Sinai. The records say, " Thou Icddest 
 thy people like a flock ry the han<» of Moses 
 and Aaron," and still their way fairly bristled 
 with dangers and was studded with difficulties. 
 Three days they journeyed on the blistering 
 sand without water, only to find, at the end of 
 their dreary march, the bitter springs of Marah 
 and at Rephidim they had to fight their way 
 through the ranks of Amalek. Be sure of it, 
 O distressed heart, if God brings you famishing 
 with thirst to the bitter waters of Marah, it is to 
 t-ach yju that nothing in this world is too 
 bitter to be sweetened by the Cross of Christ, 
 and that beside each event in life it stands with 
 its immortal hope. 
 
 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure. 
 
 By the Cross are sanctified 1 
 Peace is there which knows no measure, 
 
 Joys which ever more abide. 
 
 While Moses prayed, the army of the Lord 
 drove back the foe ; but when his arms of prayer 
 hung limp, the enemy triumphed. And faithful 
 hearts from that day to this have learned the 
 truth that the weakest is invincible with God, 
 therefore if the hosts of Amalek face you in 
 
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 battle array, learn the power of prevailing 
 
 prayer. 
 
 Difficulties! What are difficulties to the 
 man who is going God's way ? The mountains 
 shall be removed and be cast into the sea, 
 crooked things shall be made straight and rough 
 places smooth before the all-conquering march 
 of our God, who is infinitely mightier than our 
 difficulties, and His kingdom ruleth over all. 
 Let us not be as the Chinese, who have a pro- 
 verb that had the eternal gods intended the 
 Yangsti Kiang River to be navigated they 
 would not have put great boulders in its course, 
 but rather, like Paul, who in humble and tri- 
 umphant assurance exclaimed, " I can do all 
 things in Him that strengtheneth me." 
 
 Omnipotence is on your side, 
 And Wisdom watches o'er your heads, 
 
 And God Himself will be your guide, 
 So ye but follow where He leads : 
 
 How many guided by His hand. 
 
 Have reached ere now their fatherland ! 
 Press on 1 Press on ! 
 
 Now, this going God's way does not mean 
 that we shall always be able to see far into the 
 distance. It may only be one step at a time, 
 but it will be one step. Some years ago the 
 writer had occasion to drive in winter through 
 
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 Assiniboia. from Yorkton to Broadview, and for 
 nearly fifty miles of the way there was at that 
 Le'not a settled inhabitant. In the faU the 
 surveyor, had been over the trail and staked it 
 out These stakes, seen above the snow, were 
 the only marks pointing out the way. In some 
 places where the prairie was open and level, a 
 line of them could be seen stretching far away 
 into the distance, but when the poplar bluffs or 
 the rolling prairies were reached a different story 
 was told. Then it was often impossible to see 
 more than one stake at a time, and it was fre- 
 quently necessary to reach the one in sight 
 before the next one ahead came tnto view 
 Sometimes, indeed, one stake had to be left 
 behind and a start made in the direction in 
 which the next one ought to be. and some of 
 the way travelled before it came into view. But 
 by following the line of the surveyors stakes, 
 sometimes a dozen and sometimes only one 
 being in sight, he reached in safety the end of 
 the journey. The great Surveyor Himself, 
 Jesus, the Son of the Living God, has been over 
 the way we are going and staked it out for us. 
 We may only see one stake, but we will always 
 see one, or know where to find it, and, unlike 
 the driver on the Assiniboia plains, we have our 
 guide with us, the guide who Himself staked 
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out the way and knows every foot of the road 
 from start to finish. In order to see the stakes 
 God plants we must go in the line of the stakes. 
 If we go off at an angle, however slight, the 
 stakes soon fade from sight and we are in danger 
 of being lost on the trackless waste. We cannot 
 expect to be guided unless we do all we can to 
 know and in the power of God'. Spirit determine 
 to keep to the right path as revealed by Him. 
 The Roman pilot of ancient days had the true 
 pilgrim spirit, who, in the midst of a terrific gak 
 on the Mediterranean, was heard to say: "O 
 Father Neptune, you may sink me if you can, or 
 you may save me if you will, but whether you 
 sink or save, I'll keep my tiller true." 
 
 Our great care should be to find God s way, 
 to discover His ideal, to locate His stakes, and 
 then forward, always forward, our hand m His 
 hand, our eyes upon His. keeping step with the 
 march of His providence, never lagging behind 
 and never running before, marching when the 
 cloud moves, camping when it rests. And the 
 only way to know God's will is to do it. Do it 
 so far as we know it, and when we have ex- 
 hausted what we know, more will be revealed. 
 Unless we are willing to drive to the stake we 
 see the next one cannot come in sight. Some- 
 times God reveals His will by a passage of 
 
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 Scripture, the verse of a hymn, a sermon, a 
 poem, an impression flashed into the soul ; but 
 however he does it we shall know it, if we will 
 to do it. If ye will to do His will, ye shall 
 know of the doctrine. 
 
 There was a little girl, nay, there is a little 
 girl, who is more than all this world to me, but 
 God took her, and now her wee body sleeps on 
 the hillcrest under the evergreens. In the 
 bright days of spring, when the flowers are 
 blooming and the birds sing their matins and 
 their vespers to Jehovah, I often go out to her 
 little grave, for 'tis my trysting place with the 
 Divine. Not very long ago I was sorely per- 
 plexed. Earth and hell seemed to be arrayed 
 against me. Radical steps had to be taken, but 
 the future was dark and the pathway was hid- 
 den. One glorious spring day as I neared God's 
 acre, praying for light and guidance, there came 
 into my mind with almost bewildering force that 
 inspiring passage from the 37th Psdm : "The 
 steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord : 
 and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, 
 he shall not be utterly cast down : for the Lord 
 upholdeth him with his hand." Following the 
 words a great wave of peace flowed over my 
 soul and soon the way cleared up. The next 
 step became plain ; the darkness gave place to 
 
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 light ; the dreary outlook was illuminated ; the 
 harp was taken from the willows and a new song 
 put into my mouth, even praise to our God who 
 sitteth king forever and ever. 
 
 What doth the Lord require of thee, 
 O Man, but to do justly, and to love, 
 
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 God. 
 
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CHAPTER IV. 
 WALK HUMBLY WITH THY GOD. 
 
 A broken and a contrite heart thou wilt not despite. 
 For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect to the 
 
 lowly. 
 But the proud he knoweth afar off. 
 
 WALKING with God means humility. 
 Thus saith the high and lofty One that 
 inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I 
 dwell in the high and the holy place, with him 
 also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. We 
 know little of the details of Enoch's life, but of 
 this we are sure he was not a heady, self-reliant, 
 opinionated man, whose own ways were always 
 best, but a humble and a teachable soul who 
 looked up, and not in, for guidance. How this 
 self-confident spirit hurts us, and gets us out of 
 touch with God. We are too strong for God, 
 too self-satisfied, too self-reliant, and while busy 
 admiring our graces and our wisdom, satan, with 
 a chuckle of fiendish joy, trips us and leaves us 
 
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 lying wounded and discouraged facing the 
 
 wrong way. 
 
 Many men who have been like flaming tongues 
 of fire, whose words have rung like trumpet 
 blasts in the valley of dry bones, calling the 
 dead to life and stirring men to the profoundest 
 depths of their souls, have come to look upon 
 the work that God has cione with them as the 
 result of their own brains, or skill, or wisdom. 
 The boat was overloaded with fish, because, for- 
 sooth, they were great fishermen. The result is 
 inevitable. They preach the same sermons as 
 of old, but the fire and the power are gone. The 
 voice that once thrilled the heart's core, now 
 only tickles the fancy or pleases the ear. This 
 will account for the dreary failure of so many 
 men who start with brilliant promises and are 
 used by the Spirit of God t6 do great things 
 for the Master, and yet, in mid-career, when the 
 future is rich in promise and opportunity, they 
 are arrested in their development and their use- 
 fulness. God will not give His glory to another. 
 For great is the glory of the Lord : 
 And though the Lord be high, yet hath he 
 respect unto the lowly. 
 
 But the proud he knoweth afar off. 
 D. L. Moody's daily prayer was for humility, 
 and his unfailing request to his friends was that 
 
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 they would pray the good Lord to keep him 
 humble. How much of his marvellous success 
 was due to this attitude of the soul only the 
 Master knows, but we can well believe that 
 without it he could not have been so wonder- 
 fully used by God. It was out of Jacob the 
 worm that the Lord promised to make a new, 
 sharp, threshing instrument with which to thresh 
 the mountains. It is only the humble soul that 
 is willing to walk with God whithersoever He 
 leads. The conceited and the self-contented 
 always know a better way than God's ; a shorter 
 cut, an easier path, pleasanter to the eye and 
 desirable to make one wise ; but the end thereof 
 is death. The Lord Himself said : 
 
 Whosever exalteth himself shall be abased ; 
 and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 
 
 Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of 
 heart. 
 
 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the 
 kingdom of heaven. 
 
 He that is least among you, the same shall be 
 great. 
 
 The sure and certain road to humility is 
 through the infilling of the Holy Spirit. The 
 soul that is conscious of the abiding presence of 
 the Master is the one which will most keenly 
 realize its weakness, and will know of a certainty 
 
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 that it is being kept by the grace of God and 
 not by its own inherent strength or goodness. 
 And it is this consciousness of being kept from 
 sin and evil by a power other than its own, that 
 causes the human soul to bow in humble adora- 
 tion at the feet of God. The soul filled with the 
 spirit of the Master has no room for self, and 
 when self is exorcised, pride goes too, and that 
 sweet and gentle humility takes its place, which 
 is the desire and prayer of every true follower 
 of Jesus Christ The law may terrify, but it is 
 grace that humbles. The memory of our sin 
 and folly may fill us with shame and chagrin, 
 but cannot bring our souls into the true attitude 
 of humility without the other thought, that we 
 are saved from this shame and degradation by 
 the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and kept by 
 the power of God. The sweet, the humbling, 
 the glorious thought is this, "by the Grace of 
 God I am that I am." This it is that causes 
 the soul to prostrate itself before its almighty 
 and all-loving Saviour in humble adoration, 
 and this power can only come into the heart 
 when the will is surrendered utterly to the 
 Master. We must do our part. 
 
 The Master said : " How can ye believe that 
 ye receive glory from one another, and the glory 
 that cometh from the only God ye seek not?" 
 
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 By this we see that pride is a bar to faith, and 
 without faith no man can see God, walking with 
 God is impossible, and all the glorious promises 
 fail because faith is the golden key which un- 
 locks the whole treasure house of God. This is 
 the victory that overcomes the world, even our 
 faith, and faith cannot live where pride and 
 selfishness lurk. They are inimical and mutually 
 destructive. 
 
 How can the proud and selfish soul have fel- 
 lowship with Jesus? the One of whom it was said : 
 He emptied Himself taking the form of a servant ; 
 He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto 
 death. From a position of equality with God 
 He voluntarily made Himself of no repute and 
 took the form of a man, that man might be 
 blessed and lifted by His power and grace to a 
 place at the right hand of God ! And we, poor 
 helpless creatures of a day, grow vain and proud 
 over some poor possessions, or some entrusted 
 talent, and reverse the entire order of things, as 
 shown by our immortal Lord, and use our pos- 
 sessions, or our talents, for our own small selfish 
 ends, and look complacently upon the work the 
 Lord does with or through us as the outcome 
 of our own greatness. The result is dire and 
 dreary. That day when Nebuchadnezzar, walk- 
 ing on the roof of his palace, exclaimed with 
 
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 swelling breast and haughty mien : " Is not this 
 great Babylon which I have built?" was the 
 same day in which the voice came from heaven, 
 saying: "O King Nebuchadnezzar, the kingdom 
 is departed from thee." Indeed, the boastful 
 words were still in his mouth when his sentence 
 fell. And so it has ever been and always shall 
 be. Pride caused the ruin of the angels and the 
 fall of man, and huu is man's only salva- 
 
 tion. Pride begets oni 1, and evil can have 
 no end but through humr'lity. Pride never yet 
 led right, neither did humility ever lead wrong. 
 Pride will always lead us astray, while humility 
 leads us to the heavenly places. Pride is death 
 and hell, humility is life and heaven. Profounder 
 words were never uttered even by the great 
 teacher Himself than those in His last public 
 discourses, when He said : " He that loveth his 
 life loseth it ; and he that hatelh his life in this 
 world shall keep it unto life eternal." 
 
 Amongst the six things Jehovah hateth, ac- 
 cording to the writer of the Proverbs, the first 
 is the haughty eye. A high look and a proud 
 heart, he says, is sin. Tht Psalmist adds : The 
 haughty eye thou wilt bring low, for him that 
 hath a high look and a proud heart will I not 
 suffer. 
 
 One has said : Humility is the only soil in 
 
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 which the graces root, the lack of humility is the 
 sufficient explanation of every defeat and failure. 
 Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along 
 with others ; it is the root of all, because it alone 
 takes the right attitude before God, and allows 
 Him as God to do all. 
 
 Trace to its source every sin of the individual 
 soul or the nation and it will be found that nine- 
 tenths, if not the round ten-tenths, of all the evil 
 which has cursed the race, broken hearts, em- 
 bittered lives, and damned souls, has had its root 
 in this same cursed pride, which made redemp- 
 tion necessary. It has ruined homes, separated 
 loved ones, driven souls to despair and spread 
 disaster and misery broadcast in the world. 
 This is pride, and this the crop it bears. Oh, be 
 not deceived, God is not mocked, for "whatso- 
 ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 
 Pride and selfishness, twins of the pit, are Satan's 
 most powerful weapons, with which to combat 
 the march of the hosts of light and to turn souls 
 from the hope and the glory of life eternal into 
 the death which knows no ending. 
 
 While this booklet was under preparation the 
 writer received a letter from an old friend, who 
 had once known the peace and victory of walk- 
 ing with God, but whose eyes the evil one had 
 succeeded in blinding. The letter was written 
 
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 after reading the writer's little booklet, "The 
 Upper and the Nether Springs ;" and, amongst 
 other things, contained the following : " You say 
 the thing to do is to give up self. There's the 
 rub. I cannot do that although you pass it by 
 as being as simple a matter as putting on one's 
 hat and coat and walking down town. I burnt 
 my Bible last week as I do not need it. I can- 
 not do according to its requirement, ever* though 
 doing means only submission, as though that 
 were a little thing. I am sick, tired, discouraged 
 and disgusted with everything. It is useless to 
 say I have only to submit ; love and faith are 
 necessary ; but the Kingdom of Heaven is not 
 nearly as attractive to me as other things I 
 do desire and need ; and being denied these 
 things it would be poor compliment, even though 
 it were possible, to seek happiness in a state that 
 I cannot appreciate." 
 
 Almost before the letter could be answered 
 the morning newspapers told the dismal tale, 
 that this man had dared to go into the presence 
 of the Judge by his own hand. 
 
 I cannot give up self, means that I will not, 
 and this is the dreary, well-beaten road, travelled 
 by the weary feet of so many, many men, who 
 are sick, tired, discouraged and disgusted with 
 everything, because they forget our Saviour's 
 
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 words : "He that loveth his life loseth it, and he 
 that hateth his life in this world shall keep it 
 unto life eternal." Oh, that the children of the 
 King could but learn this lesson, the crowning, 
 all-embracing, life-giving lesson of lessons, that 
 the royal road to self-realization is by the way 
 of self-surrender. There is no other way to walk 
 with God. 
 
 What doth the Lord require ok thee, 
 O Man, but to do justly, and to love 
 kindness, and to walk humbly with thy 
 God. 
 
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CHAPTER V 
 
 VICTORY. 
 
 " For he is Lord of lords, and King of kings ; and they 
 also shall overcome that are with him " (Rev. 17 : 14). 
 
 WALKING with God means victory. We 
 cannot imagine a walk with God re- 
 sulting in defeat, " for he is Lord of lords, and 
 King of kings ; and they shall also overcome 
 that are with him." In the grey dawn of an 
 October morning the Federal forces, defeated 
 and in full retreat before the enemy, at the battle 
 of Cedar Creek, were met, as they fled, by Gen- 
 eral Sheridan, who had ridden at a gallop from 
 Winchester at the first sound of the guns. The 
 defeated and panic stricken troops, as they 
 caught sight of their intrepid and ever victorious 
 leader, set up a cheer which struck dismay into 
 the hearts of their pursuers, and as the name of 
 " Sheridan " was passed from rank to rank, the 
 dispersed and fleeing soldiers took new heart ; 
 
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 and, facing about at his command, turned shame- 
 ful defeat into glorious victory. If the name 
 and the presence of mortal man can transform 
 a rout into victory, cannot we expect as much 
 from the name and the presence of the Lord of 
 lords, and King of kings, the one true and wise 
 God, eternal, immortal, invisible ? Well might 
 
 Paul say : 
 
 If God be for us who can be against us ? 
 
 The Lord our God, the Almighty reigneth. 
 
 For I am persuaded that neither death nor 
 life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor 
 things present nor things to come, nor heights 
 nor depths, nor any other creature, shall be able 
 to separate us from the love of God, which is 
 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 And this is the victory that overcometh the 
 
 world, even our faith. 
 
 As Moses sang on the Canaan side of the Red 
 
 sea, so shall we sing : 
 
 •' Jehovah is my strength and my song, 
 And He is become my salvation. 
 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass ; 
 And as thy days, so shall thy strength be." 
 
 What was true of Joseph will be true of every 
 leal and honest heart whose inmost core is the 
 shrine of the Almighty : 
 
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 •♦ His bow abode in strength, 
 
 And the arms of his hands were made strong 
 
 Bv the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, 
 
 Even by the God of thy father who will help thee, 
 
 And by the Almighty who will bless thee." 
 
 David, in the midst of his stormy and check- 
 ered life, could sing : 
 
 " Jehovah made the heavens. 
 
 Honor and majesty are before him ; 
 
 Strength and gladness are in his place. 
 
 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice ; 
 
 And let them say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth. 
 
 Jehovah will give strength unto uis people, 
 
 Jehovah is the strength of my life 
 
 Of whom shall I be afraid ? 
 
 God is our refuge and strength." 
 
 Isaiah, the prophet of hope and of victory, 
 
 says : 
 
 In that day will J'ihovah of Hosts become 
 strength to them that turn back the battle at the 
 
 gate. 
 
 He giveth power to the faint; and to Him 
 that hath no might He increaseth strength. 
 
 They that wait for Jehovah shall renew their 
 strength, they shall mount up on wings as eagles, 
 they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk 
 and not faint. 
 
 Jehovah, through the mouth of Isaiah, says to 
 us, as to the men of the prophet's day : 
 
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 " Fear not, for I am with thee ; be not dis- 
 mayed, for I am thy God ; I will strengthen 
 thee ; yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold 
 thee with the right hand of my righteousness." 
 Yis, walking with God sans victory. Not 
 only a victory sometimes, out always ; not only 
 in some things, but in all things ; not only over 
 some enemies, but over all enemies. We read 
 God's wonderful promises so absolute and un- 
 qualified, and begin immediately to cut them 
 down to what seems according to our narrow 
 outlook, safe and reasonable. We desire, above 
 all things, to be moderate and avoid eccentricities 
 and fanaticism, and so we qualify God's promises 
 to make them reasonable to our sin-blinded 
 vision, and we find as a result the truth of 
 Christ's words : " According to your faith be it 
 unto you." Expecting little we receive little. 
 Having but small faith, small things result. 
 Looking for defeats, defeats come. Relying 
 upon Jesus as a limited Saviour, we have 
 but a limited salvation. Being saved out of 
 six troubles, we do not look for salvation in 
 the seventh. Redeemed from Egypt and led by 
 way of the Red Sea, we doubt God's power to 
 supply our needs in the wilderness. Although 
 believing in the glories of the Canaan life, the 
 life dead to self and hid with Christ in God, we 
 
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 have heard of the jiants that live in the land, 
 and of their walled cities, and instead of going 
 up to take possession in the name of Christ, and 
 in the power of His Spirit, we turn back from 
 our Kadesh-Barnea to wander in the wilderness. 
 Saved from the life of sin, we do not dare to 
 trust Jesus to save us from all sin and to subdue 
 all our enemies ; and so falling and rising, sin- 
 ning and repenting, we live the wilderness life. 
 
 This is wrong, and should not be. Instead of 
 paring down the promises we should pray that 
 God would lift us up to where we can take them 
 as they stand in all their simplicity and fulness. 
 Christ's great sacrifice can have no other mean- 
 ing than this, for surely the salvation pur- 
 chased at such a cost cannot be the poor partial 
 affair that w^ have known, while we have been 
 looking for the hidden reserve in all the pro- 
 mises. Let us dare to take the promises as they 
 stand, and believe them in their plain and simple 
 meaning. Let us read them as though made by 
 an earthly father to his children, and see what 
 strength and beauty they will give to life. 
 
 An old Scotch woman was once reproved for 
 being over-confident concerning the fulfilment 
 of one of God's promises. To the reproof she 
 replied : " If I am lost God will lose more than 
 I shall. He says, • that whosoever believeth on 
 
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 Him shall never die.' If I'm lost believing on 
 Him, I'm only one poor soul, but if His word 
 fail that is a great deal more of a loss." Let 
 us take the promises in this spirit and see how 
 they will transform our lives. 
 
 The Bible is filled with assurances of victory. 
 And the victory promised by the Lord of lords, 
 and King of kings, is no partial one. 
 
 When Zachariah was prophesying concerning 
 Jesus Christ, he said : 
 
 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, 
 
 For he hath visited and wrought redemption for his 
 
 people ; 
 To grant us that we, being delivered out of the hand 
 
 of our enemies. 
 Should serve him without fear. 
 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days. 
 
 Nothing partial, imperfect, intermittant or 
 temporary about this salvation. The redemp- 
 tion is complete, the enemies are defeated, fear 
 is banished, holiness and righteousness are 
 assured, and that not for to-day only, when it 
 may be that the sun is shining and we are strong 
 and happy, but also for to-morrow, when the sky 
 is cloudy and troubles overwhelm us ; yes, even 
 to the end of our days. 
 
 The angel of the Lord said to Joseph " Thou 
 
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 shalt call his name Jesus, for it is he that shall 
 save his people from their s; ^." 
 
 Jesus said to His followers : Have faith in 
 God, all things whatsoever you pray and ask 
 for, believe that yc receive them and ye shall 
 have them. Do you think that the soul that 
 goes in humility to God with this promise, and 
 asks for triumph and victory in the name of 
 Jesus Christ, will be put to shame ? God is not 
 the God we have taken Him to be if He fails us 
 here. 
 
 Paul, in sending his greetings to the Chris- 
 tians at Rome, said : But now being made free 
 from sin and become servants to God, ye have 
 your faith unto sanctification, and the end 
 eternal life. 
 
 And to the Ephesians he wrote : Blessed be 
 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings 
 in the heavenly places in Christ, that we should 
 be holy and without blemish before him in love. 
 Put on the new man, that after God hath been 
 created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 
 
 To the Philippians he wrote : It is God that 
 worketh in you both to will and to work, for 
 his good pleasure. Now, what do you think it 
 is God's good pleasure to will and to work in 
 your soul ? Failure and stumbling and sinning ? 
 
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 God forbid ; but surely righteousness and victory 
 over Satan, sin and self. Paul in finishing his 
 sentence gives God's purpose thus: That ye 
 may become blameless and harmless children of 
 God in the midst of a crooked and perverse 
 generation. 
 
 His prayer for the Colossians is: That ye 
 may be filled with the knowledge of His will in 
 all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to walk 
 worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing 
 fruit in every good work, and increasing in the 
 knowledge of God ; strengthened with all power, 
 according to the might of His glory, unto all 
 patience and long-suffering with joy; giving 
 thanks unto the Father who made us meet to be 
 partakers of the inheritance of the saints of 
 light; who delivered us out of the power of 
 darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of 
 the Son of His love; in whom we have our 
 redemption, the forgiveness of our sins ; who is 
 the image of the invisible God, the first-born of 
 all creation. 
 
 Writing to the Thessalonians, he says : The 
 Lord establish your hearts unblamable in holi- 
 ness before our God and Father, faithful is He 
 that calleth you, who will also do it. The Lord 
 is faithful who will establish you and guard you 
 fmm the evil one. 
 
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 To Titus he says : For the grace of God hath 
 appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instruct- 
 ing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness 
 and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and 
 righteously and godly in this present world, 
 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of 
 the glory of the great God and Saviour Jesus 
 Christ ; who gave Himself for us that He might 
 redeem us from all iniquity^ and purify unto 
 Himself a people for his own possession, zealous 
 of good works. 
 
 The writer to the Hebrews says : He is able 
 to save to the uttermost them that draw near 
 unto God through Him. 
 
 Peter writes : But, like as He who called you 
 is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner 
 of living ; because it is written, Ye shall be holy ; 
 for I am holy. 
 
 John continues in like strain: Beloved, now 
 are we children of God, and it is not yet made 
 manifest what we shall be. We know that if 
 He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him ; 
 for we shall see Him even as he is. And every 
 one that hath this hope set on him purifieth 
 himself even as He is pure. Whosoever abideth 
 in Him sinneth not ; whosoever sinneth hath 
 not seen Him, neither knoweth Him. 
 
 Jude writes : Now unto Him that is able to 
 
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 guard you from stumbling, and to set you before 
 the presence of His glory without blemish in 
 exceeding joy, to the only God our Saviour, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, 
 dominion and power, before all time, and now, 
 and forever. 
 
 And many more like passagesi too numerous 
 to quote in so brief a work. 
 
 The men who have turned the world upside 
 down have been the ones who, in a simple and 
 childlike faith, have taken these glorious promises 
 to mean just what they say, and have gone 
 forth to work out their own salvation, conscious 
 that it was God that worked in them to will and 
 to do of His good pleasure. Bernard, Melanch- 
 thon, Luther, Knox, the Wesleys, Finney, 
 Moody, and Muller, have all been men of this 
 stamp — men whom nothing daunted, because 
 they walked with God, and knew that around 
 them and beneath were the everlasting arms, 
 and that little and weak as they might be, never- 
 theless their refuge and help was still the eternal 
 God. From Him they drew their strength, 
 and to Him they ascribed their victory. They 
 were holy men, and because holy they were 
 humble. They knew that their holiness was 
 not due to any innate goodness or purity, nor 
 indeed to any developed or cultivated goodness, 
 
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 but to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God. 
 The ground was holy about the burning bush, 
 and so was that outside of Jericho upon which 
 Joshua stood when he talked with the Captain 
 of the Lord's host— holy because God was there ; 
 and so God's temple, the human heart, is holy 
 when the Master is there. There is, however, 
 this difference, God does not come perforce into 
 the human heart, but the human will must bring 
 the heart into the right attitude toward God, 
 before it can be made holy by the indwelling of 
 the Divine Spirit. God can do nothing wiih the 
 heart controlled by a defiant will. Paradox 
 though it ; he finite will can set at nought the 
 Almigh, nd still it is true to-day ^ ever : 
 
 "Behold • and at the door and knock," and 
 the soul that would reach its highest destiny 
 and attain to its best development must open 
 the door to the Master, and take upon itself His 
 yoke, for this is the bondage that confers the 
 truest liberty — this is the self-abandonment that 
 brings the highest self-realization. Only thus 
 can our souls become what God intended they 
 should be, and only thus can the divine image, 
 almost effaced by sin, be restored to its true 
 place in our lives. 
 
 The true self is not the baser self The 
 noblest act you ever did, the loftiest and purest 
 
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 thought or emotion of your soul, the deepest, 
 sweetest, tenderest, most self-forgetting deed of 
 your life, the time you seemed earned out of 
 yourself and did what you never dreamed you 
 were unselfish -enough to do; that, and that alone, 
 is your true self-the self that was created m the 
 image of God. Our souls are God's and not 
 Satan's. Our redemption is not an effort to 
 wrest from satan something which is his by 
 right God is not the intruder and the usurper; 
 but it is as though the black tents of evil had 
 been pitched on the white fields of light, and 
 Satan's trenches had been found day after day, 
 farther and still farther encroaching upon Gods 
 ground. Satan is the invader, evil is the 
 foreign thing. Satan has enslaved us, and when 
 we have broken the chains of slavery we too 
 often allow him to deceive and cheat us of our 
 heritage. If we w\\\ but believe it, and act as if 
 we did. we shall, like the Children of Israel, see 
 our Egyptians dead upon the seashore, for m the 
 moral and spiritual realm nothing need be that 
 ought not to be. As the Israelites marched off 
 from slavery the records say they "saw the 
 Egyptians dead upon the seashore.' Imagme 
 their thoughts as they saw the dead bodies of 
 their cruel and implacable foes lining the shores 
 of the sea, and their humid faces upturned to 
 
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 the merciless skies. There lay the tyrants 
 who had scour^'ed and beaten them, and had 
 made their lives bitter with hard bondage, 
 powerless, dead. No more tyranny or slavery, 
 for their tyrants were cold and helpless in death. 
 The same power that freed them from their 
 taskmasters can free us from ours, "Not by 
 might, nor by power, but by my Spirit," saith 
 the Lord. " I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth 
 in me." " Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to- 
 day and forever." 
 
 What is your tyrant ? It matters not what 
 nor how powerful it is, God is mightier ; and, if 
 you wish, you may see it dead as they saw theirs. 
 
 Phillip Brooks used to say : " There is but one 
 real and true strength in the universe, and that 
 is God's strength, and no man ever did any 
 strong thing yet, that God did not do that 
 strong thing in him." 
 
 Pharoah was the greatest and pro: dest mon- 
 arch of his day, but he was overwhelmed by a look 
 from God. Pharoah's ruin may be traced to his 
 pride and selfishness, as revealed in his insolent 
 question : " Who is Jehovah, that I should serve 
 Him ? " and all the tyrants in human life, through 
 all the ages, have their root and life in this same 
 pride and selfishness. There is a wonderful 
 power to exorcise evil in those beautiful words 
 
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 sent by Paul to the Christians f t Colo's^ : "Ye 
 arc dead, and your life is hid with Chnst in God. 
 Repeat them again and again, whisper them a 
 thousand times a day, if need be, wrap them 
 about you as a mantle, hurl them at temptation, 
 rest in them, believe in them, and triumph is 
 yours. They are an all-sufficient answer to the 
 worst that saton can do or suggest 
 
 This victory, which results from walkmg with 
 God, is a persistent one, lasting clear down to 
 the swelling of the Jordan, " even unto old age 
 I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you 
 «Yea though I walk through the valley of the 
 shadow of death I will fear no evil ; for thou art 
 with me." Walking with God through the val- 
 ley of the shadow of death is the certain outcome 
 of a life that is hid with Christ in God. 
 
 At the close of a hard fought day on a distant 
 battlefield a soldier lay dying. The Red Cross 
 nurse as she passed heard him shout, - Here ! 
 Thinking she was called, she stopped, and stoop- 
 ing down asked what she could do. Lifting his 
 feeble hand with all his remaining strength, he 
 whispered, « Hush, they are calling the roll in 
 heaven, and I am answering to my name^ 
 Bending still lower, she again heard him whisper. 
 " Here ! " and his soul went out to meet its God. 
 
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 The world recedes ; it disappears ! 
 
 Heaven opens on my eyes ! My ears 
 
 With sounds seraphic ring ; 
 
 Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 
 
 O grave ! where is thy victory ? 
 
 O death I where is thy sting ? 
 
 The writer of the 23rd Psalm speaks in the 
 third person, when declaring that the Lord is 
 his shepherd, and is leading him beside the still 
 waters, and supplying all his wants in this life ; 
 but as he comes to talk of the valley of the 
 shadow of death he instinctively changes and 
 uses the second person. He no longer talks 
 adout the Lord, but io Him. It is as though 
 conscious of a growing need as the shadows 
 deepen in the valley, he creeps to the side of the 
 Master, and looking up trustfully into His face, 
 he whispers : " Thou art with me." No valley 
 can be dark, and no road rough to the soul that 
 utters that most lifeful, inspiring word : " Thou 
 art with me." " Jesus with us," is the balm that 
 brightens all. Some years ago the writer said 
 to an old saint, who had sat in an invalid chair 
 for years : " You must sometimes find it tiresome 
 and dreary here." " No," quickly responded the 
 old lady, " for Jesus is always with me." Some- 
 time during that night, no one knows when, 
 God's messengers came for her to go home, and 
 
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 they found her ready, with her lamp trimmed 
 and burning. In the morning her friends found 
 the poor, worn body in its wonted place, but the 
 soul had passed through the valley of the sha- 
 dow to the home of the undefiled. 
 
 God is looking for men and women to walk 
 with Him ; men and women whom He can trust, 
 whom He can fill with His spirit, and endue 
 with His power. Would it not be glorious to 
 be one of them ? 
 
 What doth the Lord require of thee, 
 O Man, but to do justly and to love 
 
 KINDNESS, and TO WALK HUMBLY WITH THY 
 
 God. 
 
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 Weary hearts ! weary hearts I by the cares of life 
 
 oppressed, 
 Ye are wandering in the shadows— ye are sighing for a 
 
 rest. 
 There is darkness in the heavens and the earth is bleak 
 
 below, 
 And the joys ye taste to-day may to-morrow turn to woe. 
 Weary hearts ! God is rest. 
 
 Lonely hearts ! lonely hearts ! this is but a land of grief ; 
 Ye are pining for repose— ye are longing for relief ; 
 What the world hath never given, kneel and ask of God 
 
 above. 
 And your grief shall turn to gladness, if you lean upon 
 
 His love. 
 
 Lonely hearts ! God is love. 
 
 Restless hearts ! restless hearts ! ye are toiling night and 
 
 day, 
 And the flowers of life, all withered, leave but thorns 
 
 along your way ; 
 Ye are waiting, ye are waiting till your toiling all shall 
 
 cease. 
 And your ev'ry restless beating is a sad, sad prayer for 
 
 peace. 
 
 Restless hearts ! God is peace. 
 
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 Bieaking hearts ! broken hearts ! ye are desolate and 
 
 lone. 
 And low voices from the past o'er your present rum 
 
 moan ; 
 In the sweetest of your pleasures there was bitterest 
 
 alloy, 
 And a starless night hath followed on the sunset of your 
 
 i°y- , . . 
 
 Broken hearts 1 God is joy. 
 
 Homeless hearts 1 homeless hearts ! through the dreary, 
 
 dreary years. 
 Ye are lonely, lonely wanderers, and your way is wet 
 
 with tears ; 
 In bright or blighted places, wheresoever you may roam, 
 Ye look away fi ;.n earthland and murmur, "Where is 
 
 home?" 
 
 Homeless hearts ! God is home. 
 
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