It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
When God lifts you up into the arms of His grace and renews your nature, there is a new force, a new love, and therefore a new man. But this new life must take on the hardness of habit, must be entrenched in your being by habitual exercise, or the old yesterday will be back upon you and supreme again.
—The Methodist.
SCIENCE.
All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
But when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of nature as a sufficient account of its cause, it is invading a province of thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of its best friends.
Our abiding belief is that just as the workmen in the tunnel of St. Gothard, working from either end, met at last to shake hands in the very central root of the mountain, so students of nature and students of Christianity will yet join hands in the unity of reason and faith, in the heart of their deepest mysteries.
Believe in God, and bid all knowledge speed. Sooner or later the full harmony will reveal itself, the discords and contradictions disappear.
