The gadgets whereby the unobtrusive lord of this world works to obliterate the offspring of God - or if nothing else to torment whom he can't demolish, to astound and frustrate them in running the race which is set before them - are countless as the stars of paradise or the sand upon the ocean shore. In any case, it is of one of them just that I now propose to talk, (in spite of the fact that applied in different ways,) whereby he attempts to isolate the gospel against itself, and by one a player in it to topple the other.

The internal kingdom of paradise, which is set up in the core of all that apologize and trust the gospel, is no other than "nobility and peace and happiness in the Holy Ghost." Every darling in Christ knows we are made partakers of these, the very hour that we have confidence in Jesus. Yet, these are just the main products of his Spirit; the gather isn't yet. In spite of the fact that these gifts are unfathomably extraordinary, yet we trust to see more prominent than these. We trust to love the Lord our God, not just as we do now, with a frail however true friendship, yet "with our entire existence, with all our brain, with our entire being, and energetically." We search for energy to "cheer evermore, to supplicate without stopping, and in everything to express gratefulness;" knowing, "this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us."

We hope to be "made flawless in affection;" in that adoration which throws out all difficult dread, and all want yet that of celebrating him we cherish, and of adoring and serving him to an ever increasing extent. We search for such an expansion in the trial learning and love of God our Savior as will empower us generally "to stroll in the light, as he is in the light." We trust the entire personality will be in us, "which was likewise in Christ Jesus;" that we should love each man in order to be prepared to set out our life for his purpose; so as, by this adoration, to be liberated from outrage, and pride, and from each unkind fondness. We hope to be "rinsed from every one of our golden calves," "from all foulness," regardless of whether "of substance or soul;" to be "spared from every one of our uncleannesses," internal or outward; to be "decontaminated as He is unadulterated."