The Victorious Life; The Post-Conference Addresses Delivered at East Northfield, Mass., August 17-25, 1895 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... THE DAILY PORTION. "Unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses... for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness."--II. Chron. xxxi. 16, 18. If the heart is truly filled with love, there is but one thing apparently that can keep it in utter distress and that is the refusal of the loved one to apprehend the intensity of the lover's devotion, and his purpose to do good to the object of his affections. I know not what more can be told than you have already heard to express the infinite love of God, and to make you feel that the heart of the Eternal is most wondrously kind. The purposes of God towards his creatures are simply wrapped up in that one little word Love and he can never be satisfied in the one yearning desire of his heart, to pour out upon men his infinite treasures, if they will but take according to their need. What would satisfy you in your religion, if you wrote out a catalogue of everything which you felt you could desire or above all that you could ask or think? Would you not write down at the very beginning, "Peace with God, so that I should not be afraid of him?' You know in your hearts that that is supplied by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. You have but to say, "Amen, thank God, it is true; I believe it." Then would you not write down, "Constant keeping from all evil, and the supply of every need?' The Bible is full of that blessed truth at every point; the keeping Christ, the providing Lord, the comforting Friend, the everlasting Portion of Gods people. Whatever you wish, there stands the living God, and says I AM. God must give; he cannot withhold; he would not be God any more than a fountain would be a fountain if he...

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