NEWNESS OF LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6572, 9 December 1882, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWNESS OF LIFE.

Ptiriod with Christ." ami raised with Him. too, Wh.it i.s there left for to do ? Mtiiplv to coasj from and strife, Minplv " t.» v.-.-l!« in newn. ss of life." <;h»ry he to God. " Kiifen with Christ." my yl-Tious Head, Holiness now the pathway I tread, i;ca tiful th< t whih' walking therein •• lie tluit is dead is freed from sin." r.ivinir with ChrUt. who dietli no more," Following Christ, who cocth before. i am fr«»m bondage utterly freed. self as "dead indeed." Living for Christ, my members 1 vield, Servants T o God. for evermore sealed, '• Not under law," I'm now "under grace," Sin is dethroned* ant: Christ takes its place. Growing in Christ, no more shall be named, Tilings whereof now 1 am truly ashamed. '• Fruit unto holiness" will 1 bear, Life evermore, the end I shall share. Glory be to God.

Wo .ire let into the secret and explanation of Paul's "Paradise," even in this lower I world (and which made liim, though ' sorrowful, yet always rejoicing"), by what he says to hi 3 Philippiau converts, and which will afterwards demand special consideration, "Kejoice in tlio Lord alway ; and again I say, Rejoice. . . . The Lord is at hand" (Phil. iv. 4, 5). Or, better still, by listening to the words of His Divine Master in His great Valedictory : " And ye now thefore have sorrow ; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy 110 man taketh from you" (John xvi. 22). He, the Forerunner, lias already entered to take possession of the kingdom, in the name and in behalf oi His redeemed beople—

"Where I am, therihall also my servants be." As the first sfef was taken into the Temple, and waved >efore the Lord as a pledge of the harvesfto follow ; so has the Risen Jesus been prated to the Father in t!iu heavenly ssnet-iv, the pledge and earnest of a n:n!titii<l. which no man can number; "Xu , . , ,- is CVi.it risen from the dead, and become theirst fruits of them that slept. . . . Cisst the first-fruits; afterward they that a> Christ'? at His coming" (1 Cor. xv. 20 i).

"The Son of Man is erne to seek and to save that which i.s loit" (hkc. xix. 10).—To ire this is one of th»: sv.-c«.--t versus in the 15iL.1i.-. In this one little oort sentence we ar;: foM what Christ cann into this world

for. lie ca:ii3 for .1 purposu He came to do a v.-ork, and in this little crse the whole tor} is told. H" came not t condemD, but o Kive. — L>. L. Moody.