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HOW MAY JESUS CHRIST 
 BE MADE 
 
 A REALITY TO ME 
 
 JOHN R. MOTT 
 
 Second Edition 
 
 New York 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association Press 
 
 1908 
 
Copyrighted, 1906, 
 
 BY 
 
 The International Committee 
 of 
 
 Young Men’s Christian Associations 
 
 ( 3657 ) 
 
How May Jesus Christ be Made a 
 Reality to Me? 
 
 The world is impatient with unreality. 
 The same is true of Giristians and yet how 
 much unreality there is among professing 
 Christians. One is constantly meeting those 
 who testify that the facts of their faith are 
 unreal to them. A very common experience 
 is to hear a Christian say that Christ is not 
 real to him. He admits that his mother is 
 very real to him. He says that now and 
 then a stranger crosses his path who be- 
 comes a real factor or influence in his life, 
 but he confesses that in no such sense or 
 degree is Christ real to him. Now I main- 
 tain that it is possible and practicable for 
 each Christian to have Christ become and 
 remain a great reality in his life ; to be con- 
 scious of His presence ; to experience be- 
 yond doubt His actual help in breaking the 
 power of temptation, in lifting the burden 
 of sin, in shedding light in times of doubt 
 on questions which perplex us, in affording 
 a sense of companionship in times of sor- 
 row or severe trial; to have Him become a 
 vastly more potent tatf&fn transforming 
 
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character and energizing life than any other 
 person or persons living or dead. Christ 
 thus becomes not’ merely One who lived 
 and taught and wrought nearly two thou- 
 sand years ago; not simply an inspiring 
 memory or beneficent or historical charac- 
 ter, for example, like Martin Luther or Wil- 
 liam the Silent; not some vague, impersonal 
 influence; but 
 
 “ A living, bright reality, 
 
 More dear, more intimately nigh, 
 
 Than e’en the sweetest earthly tie.” 
 
 Many pray for such a sense of the presence 
 and reality of Christ and for the peace, 
 power, joy, faith, and hope which result 
 from such a realizing sense of His presence; 
 but it is overlooked that these are fruits or 
 results. Let us rather concern ourselves 
 with the causes which if supplied will neces- 
 sarily lead to these much desired results. 
 How then may Christ be made a great 
 reality to me? 
 
 Christ becomes and remains real to one 
 who continues the proper study of the rec- 
 ords of the life and works and words of 
 Christ. No personality becomes real unless 
 one has knowledge of that personality. My 
 friend is real to me. A characteristic of 
 friendship is confidence. Confidence de- 
 pends on knowledge. If Christ is to be real 
 to us we must have confidence in His char- 
 acter, life and power. Such confidence 
 originates and develops with growing 
 
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knowledge of Him. Have you ever known 
 a man maintaining a vivid realization of the 
 nearness of Christ who was not continuing 
 to study Christ and meditate upon Him? 
 General “Chinese” Gordon to a remarkable 
 degree preserved a vital faith in Christ and 
 seemed to live in His presence. But he was 
 a constant student of the Scriptures. At 
 some periods in his life, and they were the 
 periods when Christ seemed to dominate 
 him most, he studied the Bible from seven 
 o'clock in the morning until eleven and often 
 until the noon hour. One time I had the 
 opportunity of viewing in the apartments of 
 the Queen at Windsor Castle her wonderful 
 collection of gifts. Among them none im- 
 pressed me more than the old Bible of 
 “Chinese” Gordon that had been brought 
 back from the Sudan. Many of the pages 
 were so worn that you could scarcely read 
 the print. Recently, in reading the published 
 letters of Gordon to his sister, I noted these 
 words, “During the barren times I read (the 
 Bible) a great deal.” There were many 
 references in his letters showing that this 
 was a general practice with him under such 
 circumstances. In other words, when the 
 grasp of his faith seemed to be weakening, 
 when Christ seemed to be receding, he 
 would give himself to earnest study of the 
 Scriptures and Christ would again become a 
 reality to him. 
 
 What should characterize our study of 
 
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Christ if He is to remain real to us? With- 
 out doubt our study should be thorough. If 
 certain Christians gave no more time and 
 no more earnest and thorough attention to 
 the consideration of other personalities and 
 enterprises than they are giving to Christ 
 and the interests of His kingdom, those 
 other personalities and enterprises would be- 
 come practically meaningless to them and 
 powerless as an influence over them. Our 
 study of Christ must be reverent. It is said 
 that “the secret of the Lord is with them 
 that fear Him.” The more one dwells upon 
 it the more he sees that much of this secret 
 depends on knowledge revealed in the path- 
 way of the prayerful and sympathetic study 
 of Christ and His teachings. It should be 
 emphasized that our study of Christ must 
 be continuous. Only in this way will Christ 
 be kept vivid and real before us. His char- 
 acter is infinite, His riches are unsearchable; 
 as an object of study He Himself is inex- 
 haustible. The Christian who assumes that 
 because he at one time in his life spent sev- 
 eral years in the study of Christ, therefore 
 he does not need to continue to exercise his 
 mind upon Christ in order to keep Him real 
 in his thought and experience, will soon dis- 
 cover that he is mistaken. Psydhologically 
 and experimentally it is true that the mind 
 must continue to occupy itself with Christ 
 if Christ is to continue as a dominating 
 reality in one’s life. No argument is needed 
 
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to show that the study of Christ must be 
 carried on with the controlling motive and 
 purpose to know Christ in order that we 
 may become more and more like Him. 
 
 If we would have Christ become and re- 
 main real to us, we must obey Him and seek 
 to conform our lives to His example. Be- 
 yond a shadow of doubt a right life, or 
 rather a dominant desire to live a right life, 
 is indispensable to the realization of the 
 nearness of Christ. “Who shall ascend into 
 the hill of the Lord” — that is, to whom shall 
 He be real? “He that hath clean hands and 
 a pure heart.” A man with defiled hands or 
 impure heart does not know Jesus Christ as 
 a reality. Listen once more to that voice of 
 a faraway time, “Who shall dwell in thy 
 holy hill” — that is, to whom shall the reality 
 of Thy presence be a constant experience? 
 “He that walketh uprightly, and worketh 
 righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his 
 heart.” The man with the consuming am- 
 bition to align his inner and outer life with 
 the example of Christ finds himself ever in 
 the presence of Christ. Or take Christ’s 
 own words, “Blessed are the pure in heart, 
 fcr they shall see God.” By purity of heart 
 much more is meant than we usually asso- 
 ciate with the word purity. It means not 
 only having the heart free from lascivious- 
 ness, or what we commonly think of as im- 
 purity, but also free from pride, envy, jeal- 
 ousy, deceit, uncharitableness, distrust of 
 
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God. As one grows pure in heart in this 
 comprehensive sense, his vision of Christ 
 grows clearer and his sense of communion 
 with Him becomes deeper. 
 
 This matter of obedience to Christ means 
 absolute surrender to His will and reign. 
 We must yield ourselves unconditionally and 
 completely. It consists, as a French writer 
 so well expresses it, in the “heart renuncia- 
 tion of everything which we are sensible 
 does not lead to God.” Well may we dwell 
 on this phrase. If any one who has hitherto 
 had an unsatisfactory Christian experience 
 would resolve to renounce not simply nom- 
 inally, but from the heart, every practice, 
 indulgence, attitude, and motive that he 
 finds in experience, or in the teaching of 
 the Christian Scriptures, does not lead to 
 God, Christ would become increasingly a 
 great reality to him. We cannot be too 
 thorough at this point. Some people think 
 they have surrendered all when they have 
 not done so. One time St. Augustine caught 
 himself praying, “O Lord, give me purity, 
 but not yet.” And so some Christians are 
 saying: Lord, give me unselfishness, but let 
 me have my own way in this thing; or, 
 Lord, give me humility, but do not make it 
 necessary for me to come down from a cer- 
 tain position I have taken already before 
 others ; or, Lord, give me purity, but let a 
 certain picture still hang in the chambers of 
 my imagery. If we have a thousand things 
 
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and give up nine hundred and ninety-nine 
 of them to Christ, but still hold on to one, 
 Christ will not be real to us. He is the Lord 
 of all or not Lord at all. He requires every- 
 thing of us, and not until we make a com- 
 plete surrender does He disclose Himself to 
 us fully. The more we identify ourselves 
 with His aims, desires and ideals, the nearer 
 and more real He will seem to us. 
 
 By preserving an uncompromising attitude 
 toward sin Christ becomes and remains real 
 to us. Sin is a veil ; no man ever saw Christ 
 through it. Sin is an insulator; it com- 
 pletely cuts a man off from Jesus Christ. 
 The Old Testament language is apt and true, 
 “Your sins have separated you from God.” 
 No man ever regarded sin with favor, or 
 even with indifference, and at the same time 
 kept a realizing sense of the nearness of 
 Christ. 
 
 We need to guard against the little breaks 
 in our friendly union with Christ. A very 
 little thing may keep turned off a mighty 
 current. The so-called little sins are deadly. 
 We should never think a sin too small to be 
 cast behind the back of Christ. We should 
 preserve at all costs our sensitiveness to sin. 
 There is no truer test of growing spirituality 
 than growing sensitiveness to the approaches 
 of sin. On the other hand there is no more 
 alarming condition than one of callousness 
 to the presence and working of sin. We 
 should confess and forsake a sin as soon as 
 
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it is recognized. This was the practice of 
 Robert Murray McCheyne, one of the saint- 
 liest characters of Scotland. He said : “I 
 ought to confess sin the moment I see it to 
 be a sin; whether I am in company, or in 
 study or even in preaching, the soul ought 
 to cast a glance of abhorrence at the sin. 
 If I go on with the duty, leaving the sin 
 unconfessed, I go on with a burdened con- 
 science and add sin to sin.” The godliest 
 men I have known, or those of whom I have 
 read, never relaxed their vigilance in self- 
 examination to detect promptly and over- 
 come earnestly all approaches of sin. 
 
 Christ becomes and remains real to one 
 who persists in the cultivation of the habit 
 of reminding one’s self of His presence. It 
 will take perseverance to acquire this habit, 
 but well may we pay any price to do so. 
 Christ is present whether we are conscious 
 of the fact or not ; whether we believe it or 
 not. He is at hand, closer than breathing. 
 The sufficient proof is that others who have 
 complied with His conditions have found 
 Him near at hand and become conscious of 
 His presence and help. Well may one act, 
 therefore, on the supposition that Christ is 
 near. 
 
 There are marked advantages of remind- 
 ing one’s self of Christ’s presence. It warns 
 one of approaching evil in time to resist it. 
 It develops hatred of sin. It promotes 
 heart purity. It gives one a keener sense of 
 
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duty. It greatly strengthens faith and im- 
 parts the sense of certainty of help. It ex- 
 erts an ennobling and inspiring influence. 
 
 How shall the habit of reminding one’s 
 self of Christ’s presence be cultivated? 
 One means is that of regular, daily occa- 
 sions for secret prayer. Even though Christ 
 does not seem o be near us when we pray 
 it is well to go on praying, for in time His 
 presence will be manifested. I need not 
 enlarge upon the desirability of devoting 
 some of the best hours under the most fa- 
 vorable conditions to prayer. Keeping the 
 attention fixed on Christ when others are 
 praying is also an invaluable help in ac- 
 quiring this habit of realizing His presence. 
 A right use of the Holy Communion is in- 
 dispensable, for the distinguishing reason 
 which Christ assigned for this observance 
 was to remind His followers of His work 
 on their behalf and of His presence. It is 
 well also frequently to reflect upon the fact 
 that Christ is looking upon us. Another 
 suggestive practice is that of associating 
 thoughts of Christ with certain places, or 
 hours, or circumstances. I have one friend 
 who in coming to his office in New York 
 each day, as the train shoots into the tun- 
 nel before reaching Jersey City, lets this re- 
 mind him of Christ and who then gives 
 himself to prayer and communion. All will 
 remember the familiar picture of the An- 
 gelus in which the two peasants in the field 
 
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are in the act of prayer, having been re- 
 minded by the bell in the distant church 
 tower. Bishop Andrews had certain trains 
 of thought suggested to his mind when the 
 clock struck the different hours. Let us not 
 look lightly upon such suggestions nor re- 
 gard them as purely mechanical. By the 
 wise use of these and other means we may 
 have the laws of psychology fighting for us 
 in promoting the formation of a valuable 
 habit. A most important suggestion is that 
 we let the approach of temptation remind us 
 instantly of Christ. This may be made one 
 of the most powerful means if we do not 
 trifie with the warnings. If we fail to heed 
 them the conscience will be disabled so that 
 it will not remind us so well in times of 
 greatest peril. Therefore each time when 
 one is tempted to be mean, or selfish, or 
 vain, or jealous, let the very temptation re- 
 mind him of the presence of Christ. In one 
 of the battles in the recent war in Man- 
 churia the Japanese captured certain Rus- 
 sian guns and brought them into action 
 against the enemy in the same battle. Thus 
 we may make the occasions for stumbling 
 sources of strength in that they will remind 
 us of the nearness of the triumphant Christ. 
 The growing reality and influence of Christ’s 
 presence depend largely upon the operation 
 ot the law of association, and the various 
 hints which have been given are valuable as 
 a means of bringing this law more fully into 
 
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play. They thus afford opportunities for 
 Christ to impress Himself upon us. 
 
 We can all think of examples of men who 
 have practiced the presence of Christ. 
 Nicholas Hermann, who lived in the seven- 
 teenth century, cultivated this habit to a 
 high degree. He it was who voiced the 
 great truth, “He is within us; seek Him not 
 elsewhere.” He testified that when the ap- 
 pointed hours of prayer were passed, it made 
 no difference in his case because he still 
 continued with God ; and that he did not ask 
 for times of retirement because the greatest 
 business did not divert him from God. He 
 expressed the fundamental truth which, 
 when once grasped and obeyed, transforms 
 life, “our sanctification does not depend 
 upon changing our works, but in doing 
 these for God’s sake which we commonly 
 do for our own.” It is not strange, there- 
 fore, that this man was able at last to say, 
 “I am come to a state, wherein it would be 
 as difficult for me not to think of God, as it 
 was at first to accustom myself to it.” 
 Henry Martyn justly acquired the reputation 
 of being a true saint. In his early life he 
 had a fiery temper which had not been 
 brought into subjection. He was a brilliant 
 student and a man of marked social gifts 
 and had the temptations which assail one 
 who possesses such talents. But whether at 
 Cambridge University, or later in India, or 
 Persia, on land or on sea, wherever and 
 
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under whatever circumstances one met him, 
 one was reminded of the presence of Christ 
 with him. The secret of it all is found in 
 this sentence from his diary, “My chief en- 
 joyment was the enjoyment of God’s pres- 
 ence.” 
 
 Stonewall Jackson had also acquired this 
 habit of reminding himself of the presence 
 of Christ. He literally carried the saintli- 
 ness of the cloister into the turmoil of the 
 camp. He began each day with an unhur- 
 ried time of Bible study and secret prayer. 
 It is said he prayed without ceasing while 
 under fire as well as in camp. His biogra- 
 pher points out that he had long cultivated 
 the habit of “connecting the most trivial and 
 customary acts of life with silent prayer”; 
 and as a result he developed an almost 
 startling consciousness of the nearness and 
 reality of the invisible world. David, too, 
 was not a stranger to this habit, for he was 
 able to say, “the Lord is at my right hand” ; 
 and again, “I have set the Lord continually 
 before me”; and still again, “mine eyes are 
 ever unto the Lord.” 
 
 By associating with those to whom Christ 
 is a great reality He may be made more 
 real to us. There are persons whose lives 
 and presence, as well as words, make an 
 atmosphere in which it is much easier to 
 realize Christ and to apprehend His 
 teachings. I recall with gratitude one godly 
 aged woman who thus exerted a great in- 
 
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fluence upon me at a time when my faith 
 was sorely strained by certain studies in 
 philosophy. The simplicity and genuineness 
 of her faith and life constituted in itself a 
 fact for which I had to account. Moreover, 
 the presence of Christ seemed to be as act- 
 ual and real to her as that of any person in 
 the room. This also was a fact which I 
 had to explain. The fact that she, as a re- 
 sult of complying with the conditions of 
 Christ, had found Him so real could not be 
 off-set by my lack of experience of this 
 reality, for I had not in like manner com- 
 plied with His conditions. I first met the 
 present Bishop of Durham when he was 
 Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. I 
 was profoundly impressed by his evident 
 consciousness of the nearness of Christ. 
 The practical way in which this experience 
 and belief influenced his conduct and char- 
 acter also helped me greatly in a time of 
 real stress and strain We should associate 
 not only with living Christians who know 
 Christ at first hand, but also with those who 
 in other times have lived near to Him. 
 Henry Martyn was profoundly influenced 
 for Christ by reading the Memoirs of David 
 Brainerd. One side of my library is given 
 up to biographies. Whenever my faith be- 
 comes dim and the great facts of Christ and 
 His mission become unreal to me, I need 
 only take down and read for a short time 
 such works as Rutherford’s Letters, Lance- 
 
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lot Andrewcs and His Private Devotions, 
 or Halyburton’s Autobiography to have 
 Christ brought near and His truth afresh 
 get strong hold upon me. We miss a great 
 source of inspiration when we neglect 
 spending much time with the holy men of 
 other days. 
 
 “ Oh, blest communion, fellowship divine ! 
 
 We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; 
 
 Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. 
 
 Alleluia!” 
 
 By serving men, especially those in need, 
 Christ may be made more real. Friendship 
 must have expression if it is to be main- 
 tained and grow. Unselfishly serving men 
 for the sake of Christ affords the best ex- 
 pression of our friendship for Him. Those 
 for whom we sacrifice most become most 
 real to us. Moreover, Christ very clearly 
 teaches that one of the best ways to get 
 into His presence is to minister to those in 
 need. ‘‘I was an hungered, and ye gave 
 me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me 
 drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: 
 naked and ye clothed me : I was sick, and 
 ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came 
 unto me.” The disciples did not understand 
 what He meant and answered in response: 
 “Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and 
 fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? 
 And when saw we thee a stranger, and took 
 thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And 
 when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and 
 
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came unto thee?” Notice Christ’s answer, 
 “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did 
 it unto one of these my brethren, even these 
 least, ye did it unto me.” There was a time 
 in my undergraduate life when I did not be- 
 lieve in the deity of Jesus Christ. Two 
 things led me out of my unbelief. One was 
 the study of the resurrection, the other was 
 my experience in seeking to help sinful men. 
 A friend and fellow student urged me to 
 join him in a religious and philanthropic en- 
 terprise to help the prisoners in the county 
 jail. To this man Christ was a reality; to 
 me He was simply a good and great man. 
 As I attempted to help those prisoners be- 
 hind the bars, and also, after they were re- 
 leased as I tried to obtain business posi- 
 tions for them, and to effect reconciliations 
 between them and their relatives, and as I 
 sought to prepare them to face their old 
 temptations, I myself found Jesus Christ the 
 Lord. I do not at this time attempt to ex- 
 plain it. I do not know that I could were I 
 to try; but I know beyond question that it 
 was a real fact and experience with me. 
 Moreover, I have met other men who have 
 become wearied with their much study and 
 reflection and speculation upon different 
 points of the Christian faith, who, escaping 
 into the service of needy men, have found 
 the same divine Lord. Let us not forget 
 that we can serve or help men by interces- 
 sory prayer as well as by other forms of 
 
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work. Only the other day I was reading in 
 a letter of David Hill, one of the most 
 spiritual missionaries who has ever labored 
 in China, these words, “I have lately felt 
 great nearness to God in pleading for the 
 salvation of souls here.” I suppose the rea- 
 son why he experienced this nearness to 
 God and the reason why others who give 
 themselves to unselfish intercession come to 
 realize so vividly the presence of Christ, is 
 that they thus occupy themselves with that 
 which still occupies Christ, the great Inter- 
 cessor Himself, for He ever liveth to make 
 intercession. By uniting, therefore, in do- 
 ing what He is doing, as well as by entering 
 into direct communion with Him, we be- 
 come conscious of the reality of His pres- 
 ence. 
 
 Christ becomes and remains real to us 
 when we avail ourselves of the help of the 
 great Helper in the process of making real 
 His presence. The help of the Holy Spirit 
 is necessary if one is to apprehend and un- 
 derstand Christ. On the authority of Christ 
 Himself the great work of the Holy Spirit 
 is to take of the things of Christ and show 
 them unto us. True it is that “no man can 
 say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy 
 Spirit.” The Holy Spirit also is the source 
 of the love that we bear to Christ; for He 
 sheds abroad in the heart the love of God. 
 In other words He makes Christ seem near 
 Any person whom one loves does not seem 
 
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far away, for love annihilates space and all 
 barriers. The Holy Spirit gives visions of 
 Christ. This He can accomplish under the 
 most adverse and difficult circumstances, as, 
 fpr example, in the case of Stephen when he 
 was being stoned to death. But nothing 
 brings Christ nearer than the work of His 
 Spirit in giving one victory day by day in 
 the battles with temptation within and with 
 the forces of evil outside. These fresh, liv- 
 ing demonstrations of the presence and 
 working of superhuman power constitute 
 the most convincing and indubitable evi- 
 dence of the reality of Christ and of His 
 nearness. 
 
 “ And not for signs in Heaven above, 
 
 Or earth beneath they look, 
 
 Who know with John, His smile of love, 
 With Peter, His rebuke. 
 
 “ In joy of inward peace, or sense 
 Of sorrow over sin 
 He is His own best evidence; 
 
 His witness is within.” 
 
 Christ becomes increasingly real to the 
 man who forms the undiscourageable resolu- 
 tion to make Him a reality. It is at this 
 point that we do well to be much in earnest. 
 Few men have lived lives as conscious of 
 the presence of Christ as did McCheyne. 
 One has let us into the secret of his ex- 
 perience by pointing out that “he aimed at 
 enjoying God all the day.” Observe that it 
 was a constant and not an intermittent ex- 
 
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perience which he had as his object. And 
 notice, what is even more important, he had 
 this great object as a definite aim. A depu- 
 tation waited on Ruysboeck, the Belgian 
 monk, to learn the secret of his holiness. 
 His answer is significant, “Ye are as holy 
 as ye truly will to be holy.” It would be 
 well for us to test the sincerity of our de- 
 sire to have Christ become and remain real 
 to us, by examining ourselves with a few 
 questions which will gather up the dominant 
 ideas on which we have been dwelling. 
 Have I resolved that I will continue to 
 study the life and works and words of 
 Christ? “Ye are as holy as ye truly will to 
 be holy.” Have I resolved that I will obey 
 Christ in all things and that I will seek to 
 conform my life to His example? “Ye are 
 as holy as ye truly will to be holy.” Have I 
 resolved that I will preserve an uncompro- 
 mising attitude toward sin in all forms and 
 all degrees, even toward so-called little sins? 
 “Ye are as holy as ye truly will to be holy.” 
 Have I resolved that I will persist (that is, 
 not become discouraged) in the cultivation, 
 of the habit of reminding myself of the 
 presence of Christ? Beyond question “ye 
 are as holy as ye truly will to be holy.” 
 Have I resolved that I will associate more 
 intimately with those men of God to whom 
 Christ is a great reality? “Ye are as holy 
 as ye truly will to be holy.” Have I re- 
 solved that I will serve men, especially those 
 
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in need, cost what it may? “Ye are as holy 
 as ye truly will to be holy,” — no more, r.o 
 less. Have I resolved that I will avail my- 
 self of the ever present Helper in the vital 
 process of making Christ real to me? “Ye 
 are as holy as ye truly will to be holy,” — 
 that is, ye are as holy as ye truly resolve, 
 determine, make up your mind to be holy. 
 
 In seeking to observe and practice all the 
 things which have been emphasized in or- 
 der to make the wonderful Christ more real, 
 it is an infinite satisfaction for us to recall 
 that we are not groping in the dark for 
 someone who is trying to elude us ; that 
 Christ is not dodging and seeking to hide 
 from us ; but that He is more eager to break 
 in upon us and reveal Himself more fully to 
 us than we are to have Him. Therefore, as 
 we travel the paths which have been indi- 
 cated we will find as did the two on the way 
 to Emmaus, that He is with us; yet unlike 
 them our eyes will not be holden, for we 
 shall recognize His presence and continue 
 with Him until we pass into the great City 
 # where we shall become like Him, for we 
 shall see Him as He is. 
 
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