My dear friends, this was one of Mary MacJane's great chapters. We have several addresses from her. Come and let us return unto the Lord, for he hath sworn, and he will heed us. He hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us. In the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord, his going forth is prepared at the morning, and he shall come unto us at the rain, at the latter and firmer rain unto the earth. O Israel, what shall I do unto thee? O Judea, what shall I do unto thee? For your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away. Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of mine mouth, and thy judgments are of the light that works forth. For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than bound offerings." Will you come with me now to the third verse of that portion? Then shall we know, if we follow on, to know the Lord. He's going forth with prepared after morning, and he shall come unto us after rain, after the latter and former rain unto the earth. Particularly to the words, then shall we know. We follow on to know the Lord. I believe that the Lord has laid it upon my heart this morning to speak to you on a somewhat neglected aspect of Christian experience, the aspect of unrest. Then shall we know faith. We follow on to know the Lord. We frequently speak of the rest of faith. I'm sure some of you must have read that great Puritan classic, Baxter's St. West. And I believe that this is a very blessed and a very real experience. Thank God we are brought into a place of rest. Remember that the writer of the Hebrews tells us that there remains a rest for the people of God. That is what Baxter writes about. Under, do we not read, that we which have believed do enter into rest? I believe that there is an abiding rest from condemnation, from bondage, and from fear. Oh, have we not promised, come unto me, And I will give you rest, and we often sing peace, perfect peace. In this dark world of pain, the blood of Jesus, O precious blood, the blood of Jesus whispers peace within. But I fear that in our endeavour to safeguard this precious truth, we have lost sight of the other. That there is an element of unread in every truly born-again soul. I think I can say that I can speak from experience here, an unrest, a disturbing unrest within the bounds of my Christian experience. Oh, I believe that there is a very high of Christian experience This unrest, and I believe placed there by God, God who knows it, with God who understands it, I believe, has found it necessary to leave this element of unrest in the heart and in the soul of the believer. Indeed, I would say that unless we know something of this unrest, our character and our self will be void of achievement. I wonder how many of us have made a study of the I-musts of Jesus. The I must. Remember, I must be about my Father's business. I must preach the gospel in other cities. I must work the works of him that set me, while it is day. The night is coming. You will have heard, I'm sure, that the great MacTrain, mentioned several times during this conference, had a picture painted on the dial of his watch. It was a picture of the setting sun. And every time that man looked at that picture, he was reminded of time's gravity, if you have read the words written beneath the picture. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is being conscious of time's gravity. and gripped and possessed by the spirit of anger. I must wax. And it was my prayer this morning as I thought of this message and went over certain passages of scripture relative to it. My farewells, but God, might create within my heart and within yours, this point of unrest. I heard some say, I can never be the same again. This isn't it. Forgetting the things that are behind, I reach out to the things that are before. That speaks to me of unrest. Indeed, if I apprehend the teaching of Jesus rightly, he calls us not to a life of ease, but to one of a depth. I must. I must. Indeed, is it not true that he calls us to counter-warfare, to fight, to struggle, to lay hold, and proclaim the glorious truth, that in the midst of our endeavor, in the midst of our unrest, there comes the glorious assurance that Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil and his enemies. My dear people, that is a great source of Comfort and strength and blessing to me. Come to me again and again, O God. God, you're in me. God, you've taken possession. I'm poor and needy and at my best I'm but an unprofitable servant. I'm so thankful that God has said that he takes up the weak things and the saints that are My dear friend, I find myself in that category. I've got to say that. But, oh, what a strength, what an encouragement to know that my God is strong. and by what we have manifested to destroy the rest of the devils doing it still. I believe that. I believe, dear people, that hell has been defeated, really. Yes, I believe that. And where I say this day of unrest, O in that testimony of his dear servant, there is no plainer shadow. And I do trust that this will be a deep-seated conviction within your soul and within mine. And I'm not going to play with shadows. Total warfare, total commitment to the Lordship of Christ. I was thinking early this morning of something that John Byrne, the writer, said concerning Oliver Cromwell in a book that he wrote on that great man. This is what he said. Cromwell entered upon a war in which there was no discharge, no rest for him this side of heaven. And this verse that I've just quoted from Hosea tells me that there is no completeness of experience here on earth. Oh, I know that there are those who somehow try to make it out that they've arrived. They've arrived. If they can now speak in tongues, stop misunderstanding, I'm not denying the gift. I know nothing about it. But there are those who give me the impression that there is nothing further in God's And just to know of baptism leads me to speak in tongues. My dear people, there are no limits to the attainment in the divine life. I am thankful to God for that. We can press upward, we can press onward. Oh, I've said it already. then I would approach to God. Indeed, I would say that if at any stage, I believe, we have exhausted the possibilities of advance, we would be the most miserable creatures alive. I say that. I thank God for this unrest. I think I can tell you this, but I felt unrest in my heart last night. The only night since coming to this camp that I didn't sleep. Very, very restless night. And again and again the thought would come to me, oh, have you failed those dear people? Have you failed that good man that invited you to come to this camp? Unrest. And I could only say, God have mercy on me and help me to do better. The spirit of unrest, oh brother, listen, conflict will never cease. Where will enemies remain? And so new contest is always possible. One shall be made to follow on, to know the Lord. Those of you who have read the history of the first world war, may remember the message that that great French general sent to his commander when the enemy was beating at the gates of Paris, there at the Marne, that great river. And when we're there, pressed hard by the enemy, the heat on almost every side has sent its message. My flanks are broken. My centers deleted. This for me is a glorious opportunity and I will attack. And he attacked, and that was the beginning of the end that led to victory. He stemmed the tide from the enemy's attack. Yet he fought it again, all the dark day. If I am speaking to a soldier who knew something about the First World War and the Second World War, he will understand what is meant by the Flanks Bracket. Oh, I remember a day when I saw that happening. An English regiment in front of us. I referred to the Highland Brigade, the 51st Highland Division, as you must have read about. And I saw this company going down the raft. and walking right into the ranks of the ant. Press hard, yes. Broken up and now unwilling to stand, my centre is deleted. Perhaps I should finish this story by saying that the Highland Brigade, the 51st Highland Division, were called back from reserve after being smashed and broken on the previous day. Called back again to drive the enemy back. My flanks are broken, then for you. What a glorious opportunity. My dear people, I believe that it can be said of the Christian Church today, the Church that you know and the Church that I know, that her flanks are broken And her confidence yielding is not in retreat. I believe, dear people, that the issues are drawn today between emergence, atheism, and emergent world at war with God. Oh, it is true that we see his face on almost every side. But I histen to say my God is alive, and he knows the end from the beginning. Oh, I wonder, dear people, if we regard this as a glorious opportunity. I'm in the moment to make an attack on the enemy. Brother, are you going back to attack the enemy? Are you not so stressed at this period of unrest? I am not. me about my father's business. I must preach the gospel in our city. That may mean your community. But let me say again what you are as a soldier in the army. is far greater and more convincing, though I've said it already, than what you say. And I'm a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb. That is a question, brother, that you and I must face. and honestly answer. Oh, let me ask again, are you possessed of this spirit of unrest? God, I can never be the same again. Do you mean that? Oh, brother, sister, do you mean that? Because Something has happened during these days akin to that which happened in the life of Peter, Peter when you're converted. Peter, when you have had that deeper experience Oh brother, call it what you like. Call it what you like. It's the experience that counts. The honesty and the sincerity. The finest expression in the world. I can never do the same again. And that, to me, is the language of honesty and the language of sincerity. I found it in my heart, oh, I could have done that. To me, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, Hezekiah. In other words, God, I find it in my heart to give to my life the proportion of a sacred vow. God, I shall never do the same again. Simple? First of all, I feel that there ought to be an unrest regarding my own relationship with God. There ought to be an unrest. And for all you have, Paul prays, that I might know Him. When did he say that? At his confession? Oh no, oh no. It is very heartily and unrest that I might know Him. And the power of His resurrection, the power that is vested in it, that I might know him and the power of his resurrection. Oh God, I want to be conformed. In other words, I want to be more like Jesus. I think that I can say, as I stand before you and as I stand before God, that that is my supreme desire, that I become more like Jesus, more like my Savior, conformed to his image. And I believe, dear people, that that process goes on. I was at a large convention some time ago, and it was actually the Tessie Convention. It was at the time when I was the principal of the college in Edinburgh. And at this convention, the chairman intimated that A leader in foreign mission enterprise was anxious to meet All the college conventions attending, if they are in the meeting today, we would let you to meet them at three o'clock this afternoon. So a good number of principals from different schools in Britain, waiting upon this dear man of God. And I was arrested and deeply impressed by something that he said to us, our college principal. And this is what he said. And in America, he quoted those, in Great Britain and in America, our colleges, our Bible colleges, are sending forth young men and young women, cultured and polished. Cultured and polished. academic qualification. Marty remained silent for a second and said this. But young men and young women, destitute of pleasure, purity and power. My dear people, that shook me. That shook me. If it disturbs you, young people, does that disturb you? That I might know him, and the power of his resurrection, O God, make that real. It's under conscious, saving joy, Jesus, O Jesus, my glory be. And I remember saying to my own students in Edinburgh, when I got back from the convention, and as for addressing them, Oh, may God save you all from leaving this college, Cochrane College, with academic qualifications but deftly of purpose, purity, and power. And thus I have God forbid that you should leave this conference with thoughts that you never had before, with a deeper grounding incept in Aztec When I believe that doctrine is good and we must know doctrine, I believe that. But what, brother, oh what, if you leave this place, destitute of purpose, of purity, and of power, You want to ask that question? I want to listen to the voice that speaks at the ear of the soul. God, you have spoken to me, the Holy Spirit has convicted me, and I have came, dear, I can never be the same again. But God said that to you. I know it may come to you as a human aspiration, but rather as God said it. Because God knows what's in your heart. And He also knows the end from the beginning. not the God that I love to deal with. But I'm so thankful that he's merciful. I would like you to listen this morning to David's description of his God. David's description. Is it the third or the fourth verse in Psalm 50? And he's speaking about his God, and this is what he says. Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall be very before him, and it shall be very tempestuous. It is David's conception of which God will conception. David's God was a speaking God. He will not keep silent. He will continue disturbing. Oh, he will continue probing me. A God that speaks. But notice that David also makes mention of God's very tempestuous. A fire shall devour before it, and it shall be very tempestuous. Here Paul starts to ask this question, Have you felt the fire, a consuming fire, a fire of devouring? Tell me, has the fire of the Holy Ghost applied the cleansing efficacy of the precious blood to your heart and to your life? Brother, is that the God that you know this morning? Is that the God disturbing in the midst of this glorious operation that speaks to me of cleansing? Blessed, oh, blessed are the pure in heart, according to my Gaelic, by the very same God, your Bible, they shall see God. And I'm led to understand, now the Gaelic there is nearer the original. Blessed are the pure in heart, they see God. Therefore, listening to me this morning, sitting where you are, is that the God that you're gazing at? A God that answers by fire. The Forgiving God, the Cleansing God, O Brother, the Disturbing God. I am thankful that that is the God we are called upon to worship, that continuously And I believe that there is, as I already said, a peace like a river. Unless the river is disturbed, it is stagnant. And I want the river to be stagnant. I don't want to be stagnant. There is an arresting verse in this chapter, you find it in verse 6. For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offering." More than burnt offering. That is what led me to say a night or two ago that there can be a very good measure of tenerous building. at this convention, at this conference. Call it what you will. But it's the sacrificial blessing, the sacrificial drink that brings blessing, an experience that is touched by fire. And the fire that consumes a self-life. I heard one of her workers, she's addressing this conference of ministers, and in her address she asked the question, What do I understand by the sacrifice of praise? And she answered her own question by saying, The ecstasy of joy. Ah, I desire to praise the one that I love the most. Ecstasy of joy. Ah, I desire to praise the one that I love the most. I would say that is the language of the soul desirous of knowing more about Jesus. More about Jesus, let me learn. Oh, that lovely hymn sung so often by my own mother at family worship. More about Jesus, let me learn. More of his holy will depends to the Spirit of God. My teacher is showing the things of Christ to me. I know, dear people, that there is a great deal of muddled thinking today on what constitutes the knowledge of God. Oh, muddled, muddled thinking. Do you remember that Christ addressed some people who must have had some great and impressive experiences, I think. My dear brother here quoted this, was it last night? Or was it today? Have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name have done many wonderful works." My, they had a knowledge! They must have had some kind of knowledge. Where they're living today, they would say we had a wonderful experience. In that great crusade meeting, oh, especially when the appeal was made. And we saw the thousands spinning out to the front. A wonderful experience. Oh, how remarkable to have this knowledge of God. Have you heard them say that? But listen, then will I prospect unto them I never knew. Depart from me, and we shall work in equity. Yes, they were thinking, they were working, and evidently working for God. But Jesus said, and I never knew this, rather, rather listen, you better examine yourself. Let you leave this church meeting under a self-creating illusion, prostituting self-realization to the consciousness of God. I will not stay to play with shadows, I will not stoop to pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done, and I render my account." What have you there? I say, this spirit of unrest. Oh, in that testimony of his dear servant, there is no playing with shadow. And I do trust that this will be a deep-seated conviction within your soul and within mine. And I'm not going to play with shadows. It's a total warfare, total commitment to the Lordship of Christ. I was thinking, early this morning, of something that John Bahan, the writer, said concerning Oliver Cromwell in a book that he wrote on that great man. This is what he said. Cromwell entered upon a war in which there was no discharge rest for him this side of heaven." And this verse that I just quoted from Hosea tells me that there is no completeness of experience here on earth. Oh, I know that there are those who somehow Try to make it out that they've arrived. They've arrived. If they can now speak in tongues, do not misunderstand me. I'm not denying the gift. I know nothing about it. But there are those who give me the impression that there is nothing further in God's provision than just to know a baptism that leads me to speak in tongues. My dear people, there are no limits to the attainment in the divine life. I am thankful to God for that. We can press upward, we can press onward—oh, I said it already—in our approach to God. Indeed, I would say that if at any stage I believed we had exhausted the possibilities of advance, we would be the most miserable creatures alive. I say that. I thank God for this unrest. I think I can tell you this, that I felt unrest in my heart last night, the only night since coming to the camp that I didn't sleep. very, very restlessness. And again and again the thought would come to me, Oh, have you failed those dear people? Have you failed that good man that invited you to come to this camp? And I could only say And I could only say, God have mercy on me, and help me to do better. The spirit of unrest, oh brother, listen, conflict will never cease, while all else remains. And so new conquest is always possible. Then shall they know if they follow us. to know the Lord. Those of you who have read the history of the First World War may remember the message that that great French general sent to his commander where the enemy was beating at the gates of Paris, there, at the Marne, at that great river. And while there, fresh charred by the enemy, defeat on almost every side, Frost sent this message. My flanks are broken. My centre is unique. This to me is a glorious opportunity and I will attack." And he attacked. And that was the beginning of the end that led to victory. He stemmed the tide. from the enemy's attack. Let me quote it again. Oh, a dark day, my flanks are broken. If I am speaking to a soldier who knew something about the First World War and the Second World War, he will understand what is meant by the flanks and the center hills. Oh, I remember a day when I saw that happening. An English regiment in front of us. I refer to the Highland Brigade, the 51st Highland Division, as you must have read about. And I saw this company going down the and walking right into the ranks of the enemy. Pressed hard, yet broken up, and now unwilling to stand, my centre is yielding. That's why I should finish this story by saying that the Highland Brigade, the 51st Highland Division, were called back from reserve after being smashed and broken on the previous day. Called back again to drive the enemy back. My flanks are broken, then for you. What a glorious opportunity. My dear people, I believe that it can be said of the Christian church today, the church that you know, the church that I know, that her flanks are broken, And her temper is yieldingly not in retreat. I believe, dear people, that the issues are brought today between a militant atheism and a militant world at war with God. Oh, it is true that we see defeat on almost every side. But I histen to say my God is alive, and he knows the end from the beginning. Oh, I wonder, dear people, if we regard this as a glorious opportunity and a moment to make another attack on the enemy. Brother, are you going back to attack the enemy? Are you a protest of this spirit of unrest? I'm not. be about my father's business. I must preach the gospel in our city. That may mean your community. But let me say again what you are as a soldier in the army. is far greater and more convincing, though I've said it already, than what you say. Am I a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb? That is the question, brother, that you and I must face. and honestly ask. Oh, let me ask again. Are you possessed of this spirit of unrest? God, I can never be the same again. Do you mean that? Oh, brother or sister, do you mean that? Because Something has happened during these days akin to that which happened in the life of Peter. Peter, when you have had that deeper experience Oh brother, call it what you like. Call it what you like. It's the experience that counts. The honesty and the sincerity. The finest expression in the world. I can never be the same again. That to me is the language of honesty and the language of sincerity. I find it in my heart. Oh, I could have it already. To me, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, Hezekiah. In other words, God, I find it in my heart again to my life, the proportion of a sacred vow. God, I can never be the same again. Simple? Now first of all, I feel that there ought to be an unrest regarding my own relationship with God. There ought to be an unrest. might know him. When did he say that? At his conversion? Oh no. Oh no. It is very hard for us and unrest that I might know him. And the power of his resurrection, the power that is vested in him, that I might know him and the power of his resurrection. O God, I want to be conformed. In other words, I want to be more like Jesus. I think that I can say, as I stand before you and as I stand before God, that if that is my supreme desire, that I become more like Jesus, more like my Savior, conformed to his image. And I believe, dear people, that that process goes on. I was at a large convention some time ago. I refer to the 50 convention. It was at the time when I was principal of the college in Edinburgh. And at this convention the chairman intimated that A leader in foreign literature enterprise was anxious to meet all the college conventions attending Cheswick. If they are in the meeting today, we would like you to meet him at three o'clock this afternoon. So a good number of principals from different schools in Britain, throwing themselves waiting upon this dear man of God. And I was arrested and deeply impressed by something he said to us at college. This is what he said. in Great Britain and in America. He quoted both, in Great Britain and in America. Our colleges, our Bible colleges, are sending forth young men and young women, cultured and polished. Cultured and polished. with academic qualifications. Marty remained silent for a second and said this. But young men and young women, destitute of purpose, purity, and power. My dear people, that shook me. That shook me. It's disturbing. Young people, does that disturb you? But I might know Him. And the power of His resurrection, oh God, make that real. Death to the world and all its toys, its idle pompous fading joys, Jesus, oh Jesus. my glory. And I remember saying to my own students in Edinburgh, when I got back from the convention and was addressing them, oh may God save you all. From leaving this college with academic qualifications but destined for perfect purity in the house. And brother, God forbid that you should leave this conference with thoughts that you never had before, with a deeper grounding in certain aspects of truth. Doctrine, when I believe that doctrine is good and we must know doctrine, I believe that. But what, brother, if you leave this place destitute of purpose, of purity, and of power? We want to ask that question, and we want to listen to the voice that speaks at the ear of the soul. The Holy Spirit has convicted me. And I have said, I can never this time again. But brother, has God said that to you? I know He may come to you as human aspiration. But brother, has God said it? Because God knows what's in your heart. And he also knows the end from the beginning. That's the God that I have to deal with. And I'm most thankful that he's merciful. I would like you to listen this morning to David's description of his God. David's description. Verse, is it the third or the fourth verse in Psalm 50? And he's speaking about his God, and this is what he said. Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall be very before him, and it shall be very tempestuous. May I ask, in David's conception of his God, you will conception it. David, his God, was a speaking God, he will not keep silent. He will continue disturbing Oh, he will continue probing me. A God that speaks. But notice that David also makes mention of a God very tempestuous. A fire shall devour before and it shall be very tempestuous." Nero paused just to ask this question, Have you felt a fire, a consoling fire, a fire devouring Tell me, has the fire of the Holy Ghost applied the cleansing efficacy of the Prince-Blood to your heart and to your life? Brother, is that the God that you know this morning? Is that the God disturbing in the midst of this glorious operation that speaks to me of cleansing? Blessed, oh, blessed are the pure in heart. According to my Gaelic Bible, they see God. Your Bible, they shall see God. And I'm led to understand that the Gaelic there is nearer the original. Blessed are the pure in heart, they see God. Therefore, listening to me this morning, sitting where you are, is that the God that you're gazing at? The God that answers by fire. God, the Cleansing God, O brother, the Disturbing God. I am thankful that that is the God we are called upon to worship, that continuously Is that not what you were singing? And I believe that there is, as I already said, peace can make a river. But unless the river is disturbed and stagnant, and I want the river to be I don't want to say. There is an interesting verse in this chapter, you'll find it in verse 6. For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. More than burnt offerings. That is what led me to say a night or two ago that there can be a very good measure of cherished giving at this convention, at this conference, call it what you will, but it's the sacrificial blessing, the sacrificial giving that brings an experience that is touched by fire. And the fire that consumes the self-life. I heard one of her workers, she's addressing this conference of ministers, and in her address she asks the question, What do I understand by the sacrifice of faith? And she answered her own question by saying, the ecstasy of joy. Ah, I desire to praise the one that I love the most. ecstasy of joy. As I decide to pray for one that I love the most, I would say that is the language of a soul desirous of knowing more about the King. More of Jesus, let me learn. Oh, that lovely hymn sung so often by my own incorrect family worship. More about Jesus, let me learn. More of his holy, will-determined Spirit of God, my teacher be, showing the things of Christ to me. I know, dear people, that there is a great deal of muddled thinking today on what constitutes the knowledge of God. Oh, muddled, muddled thinking. Do you remember that Christ addressed some people who must have had some great and impressive experiences, I think. My dear brother here quoted this, was it last night? Or was it today? Have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name have done many wonderful works." My, they had a knowledge! Must have had some kind of knowledge. Where they are living today, they would say we had a wonderful experience. In that great crusade meeting, especially when the appeal was made, and we saw the thousands streaming out to the front. A wonderful experience. Oh, how remarkable to have this knowledge of God. Have you heard me say that? But listen, when will I suspect unto them I never knew, depart from me, leave us, work iniquity. Yet they were thinking, they were working, and evidently working for God. But Jesus said, he never knew it. Brother, brother listen. You better examine yourself. Lest you leave this camp meeting under a self-created illusion. Substituting self-realization for the consciousness of God within the bounds of your soul. It's possible, oh, possible for that to happen. That to me is a delusion. In connection with that I would say this, that the devil is not greatly concerned about getting in between you and work. Oh, we can go back to work. Don't be filing that question. I want to ask again, all brothers, has he spoken to you? Tell me, what did he say to you during the night? I don't know why it was, but there was a terrible disturbance in the camp last night. From all out of this morning I could hear people talking. And I said to myself, oh God, are they crazy. And somehow I felt that somewhere God had been saying to me, I know that God said to me, there are times when I thank God when sleeping, alone with God, oh blessed alone with God and in Him hidden, to find in Him a communion sweet. Tell me, what has He been saying to you? But before I sit down, I feel that I ought to say something about another fallacy that is common among Christian people today. It goes like this. Courage can be both figure and Lord. And consequently you can accept him as figure without accepting him as Lord. My dear people, oh let me say again, no more damnable theory was ever forged on the anvil of hell than that. Do you believe that? You accepted a two compartment Christ. Two compartments. I know him as my Savior, but I do not know him as my Lord. So I am going to the camp meeting. Oh, I'm going to the conference and I'm going to the convention. And I listen to this truth that tells me that I can accept him as my Lord. Oh, I've made a decision. I believe that I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian And yet you know that he has not been the Lord of your life, and the Lord saves from the devil. Oh, brother, sister, take it home. Oh, take it home. Do I not read thee thou shalt confess with thy mouth the law of Jesus. The law of Jesus. As we have therefore received Christ Jesus, the Lord, so walk ye in him. Lord, what would thou have me to do? Let us say again, O I keep changing ways that I do not believe that one single soul can be saved until he is prepared to accept the Lordship of Christ. Until he finds Jesus. Lord of my life, I call thee now. That's the language of the therapist in the Savior. I call thee now Jesus my glory. Oh my dear people, let us ever remember that when I say the sovereignty of Christ is intimately related to the condition and goal of salvation. I say that our hearts are ignition of his victory is the supreme principle of the new creation. It is that. It is at once the effect, would I say, and also the element of the new creation. Oh, may God favour us from being snared in this strange and this furious watching, the two-compartment Christ. If you have Christ, you will recognise his Lordship. Then shall we go on to know the Lord. I'm afraid my time is gone already, but ah, well, you have dressed a highlander, invited a highlander to a dispute, and you've got to be pleased with longservants. I find here unrest toward ourselves. Now, what shall we do? Well, I would say, simply and quietly, that we shall know the possibilities of the heart by blood and clay. I want to say that because to me it is a thought and a conviction that transform my own life. Transform it? Oh yes. knew a gracious experience of salvation when I was willing to crown life, Lord of my life. But there came a moment, and I want to be perfectly frank, there came a moment during World War I that I, dial in the eye discovered that there was an enemy well within the garrison of my soul. And I very soon discovered that there was a measure of uncleanness there. I can well remember falling on my knees in a trench. For we knew that I prayed And I would ask God to forgive me for the thoughts of my heart. Forgive me for unclean thoughts. Oh, my dear people, I must be honest. The unclean thoughts of my heart. There came a moment, I think I mentioned it already, When, in a cavalry charge, wounded and broken, and lying on a horse's back, yelping to the nearest specialty station, I prayed, God made me as holy as a saved sinner can be. And God, in his mercy, did that. So that no one need ever say to me that there isn't a deeper consideration. I believe that I may be speaking to some here this morning. And you must travel along the same line. Frank? Yes? And my dear people, we've got to be frank in dealing with children. Listen to this first. Paul is writing to the Corinthians and he exhorts them to cleanse themselves. You thought of that? Oh brother, I'd like to do something. Cleanse yourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit. Perfecting wholly in the fear of the Lord. Oye, that to me is a great work. That, and I work far to say this, that his words mean anything. All is there written of an experience that is vital, that is prevalent, and that is blessedly used. When I say that, don't misunderstand me, I'm preaching absolute perfection, sinless perfection, because I don't believe it. I don't believe it. But what I am preaching is spiritual perfection, God perfection. God please be holy, for I am holy. I wonder what did Paul mean by perfecting holiness. Remember when chasing this truth some years before God, I kept, I think God, God, what do you mean? What do you mean? Listen to me. You speak of cleansing. Oh, speak of cleansing. David spoke about it, Jesus spoke about it. They are pure in heart, they God. I said we came to recognize that purity has to do with heart. And I believe it is an instant exception and God accepts it. An instant cleansing. God, you're in me. But I sometimes think the perfect thing has to do with the mind and its object. Some occasion an act, but also a process observing it. Let's explain what I mean. During the Tyree revival of Mary Morrison, that I mentioned already, a most gracious moment, and still I had very little power in that moment, but hand was on tools. But I was eager to spend the weekend, I was happy for the whole winter, meetings during the night, meetings during the day, and physically they were self-exhausting. But I felt it was my right to go and perhaps get a little help. So I went. And we were in a meeting, where God was moving, souls were being saved. I think I ought to tell a story, just departing from what I had in my mind. I bought a lesson there, now worth much to me since then. I was sitting in the plane following morning for the plane to leave for when a young man came and sat next to me. And in course of conversation he said to me, unfortunately you would be the last dream of sitting beside me. I said that's interesting. He said that you desire to sit beside me. Well he said it was because of what happened last night. You must have known that a lot of people get into the church, they were saved. And you remember the windows were open. And you were preaching, you were preaching. And when you finished preaching, you asked one of the sisters to say so. And while he was saying, The Spirit of God then brought me, along with eight other men, all men, eight other men, we fell on our knees to the floor and cried to God on our knees. And of course, interested, oh dear people we can be so human, we can be human. And I took the man and said no, I am interested in that. What was now in the address that brought conviction to you? All he says, nothing, nothing. Indeed I don't remember the text that he used. Oh my dear people I found myself on the ground. I found myself crushed and humbled. I tell you the good part. It was when that young woman sang, she sang so loudly that God's only ghost swept through the window. And in a matter of minutes, I and those men were on our knees crying to God for mercy. Well, that was a lesson to me. And you are people who are slow to learn, and so prone to lean self. God taught me a lesson. He has been with me down through the years. Listen to the other people. He has taught me a lesson in this camp. And I thank him for it. But I come back to my story. When we arrived home at our lodgings, I was staying in the same house as her. All members of the family were at the meeting except one granny. Oh granny, over 80 years of age, a Christian woman. And arriving home, we did discover that she had the broom slipper of the two girls in front of her side. Just to have them warm for me. It was a cool, wintry night. And that dear granny was still there. And she brought the bent slippers to the front of the fire. But dear Granny forgot that if she put slippers too near the fire, they'll burn. And the soul of one pair was completely burnt. Now all the meanies that speak of loving that made Granny do that. But she had to learn that if she put slippers too near the fire, they're going to be burnt. Perfect. that the lean heart should go with the mind. I would say brother, no point of salvation real has not in it this element of unrest so that yet to this goal would be today's starting point. The rules that grips me at this very moment of time, environment and expression.