of sanctification. "We all, with unveiled face, reflecting in a
mirror the glory of Christ (the character of Christ) assuredly--without
any miscarriage--without any possibility of miscarriage--are changed
into the same image." It is an immense thing to be anchored in
some great principle like that. Emerson says: "The hero is the
man who is immovably centered." Get immovably centered in that
doctrine of sanctification. Do not be carried away by the hundred
and one theories of sanctification that are floating about in
religious literature of the country at the present time; but go to
the bottom of the thing for yourself, and see the RATIONALE of it
for yourself, and you will come to see that it is a matter of cause
and effect, and that if you will fulfill the condition laid down
by Christ, the effect must follow by a natural law.
What a prospect! To be changed into the same image. Think of
that! That is what we are here for. That is what we are elected
for. Not to be saved, in the common acceptation, but "whom He did
foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of
His Son." Not merely to be saved, but TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE
OF HIS SON. Conserve that principle. And as we must spend time
in cultivating our earthly friendships if we are to have their
blessings, so we must