Yes—if we are surprised for a moment at this third gift which God is pledged to bestow on us, if we ask ourselves whether we can speak of the sound mind, the sobering discipline of Christ as of something which He had, something of which the Holy Ghost could take and pass on to us, we have only to go back to our Gospels and read again what is written there, and we shall find ample evidence that He, with all His power and the urge of His infinite love, lived, worked and spoke ever under discipline. "He learnt obedience by the things which He suffered." We are apt to think of what we call the agony of those last hours on earth. Let us not forget the stern discipline which He exercised on Himself all through His ministry, and thank God who bestows' on us His Holy Spirit to help us share that discipline as'we exercise Christ's power and try to be like Christ in His love.
Established in Shanghai 1874
Incorporated under the Hongkong Ordinances
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