MEMBERS OF CHRIST'S BODY

MEMBERS OF CHRIST’S BODY

I could have wished that the subject of the church had been more dwelt on. Surely nothing can be more consolatory to us than that we are here the members of Christ’s body. To think that in this world of evil I am here for Christ, as part of Him, reconciles me to all the trials here. No doubt we are here also for another purpose, even to fit us each one for a special place in the future temple.

Here the education, the hammering, goes on. I remember, many years ago, when I was occupied with benevolent activities, a brother said to me, ‘you are a citizen of heaven’. It came with power to me, and I felt — ‘then I am no longer responsible for the disorder and misrule here’. It was a great relief to me; and afterwards I astonished some in ———— by saying, ‘You will never be truly heavenly until you feel it a relief to be so.’ In the shaking of all things now I do trust the saints may rejoice that they have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. My impression is that the whole character of society will be altered by the political distractions. We have only to think of it as to how it may affect the saints. I trust it may awaken us all to a greater sense of our insulated position in this world, that though we are in it we are not of it.