It is not always in the correction of the failures which come before us that sources of unhappiness are healed; they disappear when souls are nourished upon the riches which are in Christ. We must think of this; we must, while ourselves feeding upon Christ-and He gives us to feed on Him without stint-cause others to breathe a new atmosphere, where Christ is, and, if souls are exercised before God there, they are transformed into His likeness, so that their affections How out even as His flowed out in this world. It is a great thing to say, and undoubtedly we find ourselves far from our Model, but in proportion as we realize Christ in our hearts we reflect Him without being aware of it. The " I " disappears as a motive principle, and the life of Christ is manifested. Real exercise of soul is necessary to produce this result: " Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus," says the apostle. " Death works in us." There are however these three things. " Ye are dead" (Col. 3); this is the judgment of God. "Reckon yourselves to be dead;" this is what faith does, in answer: it is liberty through the grace of the Holy Spirit. " Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus;" this is the practical carrying out of it. If we had not the two first, the third would make the monk; with the two first it makes the saint, where Christ is all. 505