. For the best things. f his reach, hidden in the made his way secretly into thechurch, at night, and found the place wherethe volume was kept. But there was no lightin the building and he could not see to when he opened the book and took hispen to write, light streamed out from his[190] Cl^e laroblem of Cemptatton hand and flooded the page with that shining hand he made a copy ofthe Psalter. It is only a legend, but it teachesthat those who live always in communionwith Christ have Christ in themselves andneed falter at nothing. When we are servinghim he
. For the best things. f his reach, hidden in the made his way secretly into thechurch, at night, and found the place wherethe volume was kept. But there was no lightin the building and he could not see to when he opened the book and took hispen to write, light streamed out from his[190] Cl^e laroblem of Cemptatton hand and flooded the page with that shining hand he made a copy ofthe Psalter. It is only a legend, but it teachesthat those who live always in communionwith Christ have Christ in themselves andneed falter at nothing. When we are servinghim he helps us. The light of his life in uswill make our lives shine so that where we gothe darkness will be changed to day. Thenwe will always be conquerors in him. [191] €ii^tm*^ i$oDt anti 3it^ jmtmhm [19S] ^^ Lord, give me graceTo take the lowest place:Nor even desire,Unless it he thy will, to go up higher, Except by grace,I fail of lowest place;Except desireSit low it aim$ awry to go up higher, [ 194] CHAPTER FOURTEEN. T. PAUL church speaks of theas the body ofChrist. He had his ownbody in his his body is the wholegreat company of his peo-ple, all who love him, trust him, and arefaithfully following him. Every believer is amember of this body and has some functionto fill in it. St. Paul uses the human body andits members in a very effective way in illus-tration of important spiritual truth. Asthe body is one and hath many members, andall the members of the body, being many, areone body; so also is Christ. Ye are thebody of Christ, and severally members there-of. The body is not one member, butmany. All that any Christian can be is oneof the members of Christs body. He is noteverything. The hand is not the body. The[195] eye is not the body. The lungs are not thebody. The most that any behever can be is ahand, a foot, an eye, an the hand getting the thought thatit is the whole body, ignoring all the othermembers, setting up for itself, and trying tog
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