We are walking in company with a triumphant Christ, as a triumphant people. And you cannot be in triumph yourself without leading other people into it. Walking in triumph is a blessedly infectious thing; and, on the other hand, getting down under the power of troubles is equally infectious. Nothing will so pull down, make miserable, and blight a soul as 'getting under the power of church, troubles. When we get thus weighed down we cease to have power over them, and they do not cease to have power over us. But the Christ we are in company with is a victorious Christ. As the hymn says.: " Thy life in us each victory gains." It is the life of a victorious Christ that we have. (E. P. C.)
You cannot touch pitch without being defiled„ and there is a great deal of pitch in these days. Thinking with the world, and 'talking like the world, the heart gets into the color of the world. It is not Christ. But the heart that is set free lives in the things that Christ's heart delights in, and lives in the atmosphere where Christ's heart dwells, instead of being dragged after a thousand things.
(J. N. D.)