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entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
Here is a course by which we may be assured that we shall never
fall. Those who are thus working upon the plan of addition in obtaining
the Christian graces, have the assurance that God will work upon the
plan of multiplication in granting them the gifts of His Spirit.
Peter addresses those who have obtained like precious faith: “Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord.” By divine grace, all who will may climb the shining
steps from earth to heaven, and at last, “with songs and everlasting
joy,” enter through the gates into the city of God.—
The Review and
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Value of Trials
The trials of life are God’s workmen, to remove the impurities and
roughness from our characters. Their hewing, squaring, and chiseling,
their burnishing and polishing, is a painful process, it is hard to be
pressed down to the grinding wheel. But the stone is brought forth
prepared to fill its place in the heavenly temple. Upon no useless
material does the Master bestow such careful, thorough work. Only
His precious stones are polished after the similitude of a palace.—
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 10
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Secret Place of Power
To the secret place of the Most High, under the shadow of the
Almighty, men now and then repair; they abide for a season, and the
result is manifest in noble deeds; then their faith fails, the communion
is interrupted, and the life work marred. But the life of Jesus was a life
of constant trust, sustained by continual communion; and His service
for heaven and earth was without failure or faltering.
As a man He supplicated the throne of God, till His humanity was
charged with a heavenly current that connected humanity with divinity.
Receiving life from God, He imparted life to men.—
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