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We use the hymn book in a very restrained and restricted way, because of our ignorance of the hymn book. Anyone can give out a well known hymn at an appropriate time in the assembly meeting, but there are many other hymns that would fit, and if the Holy Spirit had His way and intelligence were in us the hymn book would be better used and heaven would be better repaid from it than it is. So it is as many as are led by the Spirit of God.

J. Taylor (Vol. 89, p.236)

... and now you are to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. It is a comfort to know that that will has been perfectly set forth here upon earth. We are not called to walk in an untrodden path; the will of God has been perfectly set forth in Christ; He could say I have glorified Thee on the earth, I have finished the work that Thou gavest Me to do. In the path of Christ the Christian is called to walk. The first thing is that your own will is set aside; it is will that distinguishes each one of us. Your will is not mine, and mine is not yours, but every Christian’s will is gone. Our old man is crucified with Christ, so that we are to have no will. The body is to be yielded up as a sacrifice to God.

F. E. Raven (Vol. 12, p.82)

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