CONTENTS. PAGE The All-sufficiency of Christ (PART 1.) Meditations on Practical Christianity The All-sufficiency of Christ (PART II.) Meditations on Practical Christianity A Letter to a Friend on Eternal Punishment.... The All-sufficiency of Christ (PART III.) Extract from a letter of a Christian Captain The Christian: his Position and his Work (PART 1.)... 169 PAGB The Christian; his Position and his Work (PART II.)... 197 The Christian: his Position and his Work (PART II.) 225 Simon Peter: his Life and its Lessons (PART VII.) 24 52 72 108 137 159 164 Living Waters 192 66 'Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" 220 "Then shall every man have praise of God” Things New & Old. THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST. WHEN once the soul has been brought to feel the reality of its condition before God, the depth of its ruin, guilt, and misery, its utter and hopeless bankruptcy, there can be no rest until the Holy Spirit reveals a full and an all-sufficient Christ to the heart. The only possible answer to our total ruin is God's perfect remedy. This is a very simple, but a most important truth; and we may say, with all possible assurance, the more deeply and thoroughly the reader learns it for himself the better. The true secret of peace is to get to the very end of a guilty, ruined, helpless, worthless self, and there find an all-sufficient Christ, as God's provision for our very deepest need. This truly is rest-a rest which can never be disturbed. There may be sorrow, pressure, conflict, exercise of soul, heaviness through manifold temptations, ups and downs, all sorts of trials and difficulties; but we feel persuaded that when a soul is really brought by God's Spirit to sec the end of self, and to rest in a full Christ, it finds a peace which can never be interrupted. |