(By Arrangement with the "Daily Telegraph.")
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me."
It is so easy to be content with a lesser belief. It is so easy to consider the teaching as merely figurative; to interpret it as participation in his likeness, sympathy with His character, submission to His influence, following His example, listening to His instruction. A dead Plate may so influence his followers, but that ig not the way a living Christ works in His disciples. We do not teach nor can we, as Christians, be content to so interpret our faith. We do not stop when we have preached a Christ that died for us—yes, and that is risen again, who is even on the right hand of God and ever live th to make intercession for us, but we preach Christ in the Christian heart, in the closest and most vital relationship the mind of man can imagine.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.