FELLOWSHIP WITH HIS DEATH

^[p. 40] FELLOWSHIP WITH HIS DEATH

I was glad to get your letter about your time in ————. It is very slow work practically to prefer Christ to Adam, notwithstanding all our sincere profession of love and admiration for Him. I have learned for myself that until one is true in heart to communion with His blood, one has not started on the path in which He walked here — the path of life. It is not merely surrendering worldly position, but that fellowship with His death has cast its shadow over everything here, as Jacob felt when Rachel was dead; and as far as I see, no one is happy in Christ’s present things who has not begun with Him at our own side of things.

The aim and attempt of every sect or denomination is to be the acknowledged light bearer of the place, instead of being a remnant with the brightest trait of the first days, that is — fidelity to Christ, personally going forth to meet the Bridegroom.