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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
shadow. We have an experience that is not to be buried in the dark-
ness of doubt. Our faith is not in feeling, but in truth. The inspired
apostle speaks of our being built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone. The
church of Christ is represented as being built for “an habitation of
God through the Spirit.” If we are “rooted and grounded in love,” we
shall “be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge.” Oh, precious possibilities and encouragement!
In the human heart cleansed from all moral impurity dwells the pre-
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cious Saviour, ennobling, sanctifying the whole nature, and making
the man a temple for the Holy Spirit.
Christ a Personal Saviour
Then is Christ a personal Saviour? We bear about in our body the
dying of the Lord Jesus, which is life and salvation and righteousness
to us. Wherever we go, there is the recollection of One dear to us.
We are abiding in Christ by a living faith. He is abiding in our hearts
by our individual appropriating of faith. We have the companionship
of the divine presence, and as we realize this presence, our thoughts
are brought into captivity to Jesus Christ. Our spiritual exercises are
in accordance with the vividness of our sense of this companionship.
Enoch walked with God in this way; and Christ is dwelling in our
hearts by faith when we will consider what He is to us, and what a
work He has wrought out for us in the plan of redemption. We shall
be most happy in cultivating a sense of this great gift of God to our
world and to us personally.
These thoughts have a controlling power upon the whole charac-
ter. I want to impress upon your mind that you may have a divine
companion with you, if you will, always. “And what agreement hath
the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living
God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be My people.” As the mind dwells
upon Christ, the character is molded after the divine similitude. The
thoughts are pervaded with a sense of His goodness, His love. We
contemplate His character, and thus He is in all our thoughts. His
love encloses us. If we gaze even a moment upon the sun in its