LIFE WHERE CHRIST IS NO. 1

LIFE WHERE CHRIST IS NO. 1

I was very glad to get your letter this morning.... As to ————’s doctrine, I quite agree with you, that it is a hard and fast system of believing or not believing. In a word, it does not come to me as the writing of an exercised soul, and where is any soul that is not exercised? I am so glad that you are cheered about ————; he is an exercised soul. I can see how the expression ‘conscious possession’ is unfortunate, for life is life, but in reality almost every one I meet with limits eternal life to its manifestation in Christ down here, and they seek His help and presence in their circumstances as if they were absolutely united to Him when He was on earth, and there seems to be no idea or apprehension of being united to Him where He is — the exalted Man, and where He is at home, and where He is really our life, though doubtless we shall be in all the grace of His life down here as we are in the path going on to the rest (Hebrews 4). John 5: 13 does insist on conscious knowledge: this is different from conscious possession.

I shall be very glad to be one of the company to receive ^[p. 146] your eighth into the sphere of the Spirit’s rule on earth; as the Lord’s property we claim her for Him.