(Continued from Page 239.) to man, about which Iavish to speak 'a word, is the stone of self. It truly has been said:—"Man's greatest enemy is himself." Our Lord taught tus that the Christian life only can' be entered by way of self-denial a self-surrender. "If any man wil come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and. follow Me." There has to be a death or crucifixion of self, that is to say, of what St. Paul calls "the old man," for "the flesh," if the new life of Christ is to spring up within ws. If we put a seed in the ground, it perishes in giving birth to the now plant. Jesus had to die in bringing new fife to a dying world. So) spiritual life only can come by way of sacrificial death. There must be in each one of us "a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness," a death to all forms of selfishness, self-secking, and self-will, which inder Christ from having the first place in our lives. Only when Christ has been enthroned in the place formerly occupied by "self" can we realize our truest and highest self-development, namely, the man or womzn we ought to be, and that God meant us to be, and that we can be by His strength alone.
So we see that unbelief, pride, and selfishness are three great obstacles (among many others, of course) to the reception of the Eternal which Christ brought to all mar kind. Is there anyone here this
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