The Way of the Seven Fold Secret by Lilias Trotter

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And when He emptied Himself of His glory for the
33 years that He spent on earth, still that overflowing life
was visible in power. He drove out disease that would
destroy the life of the body, and the possession of demons
that would destroy the life of the mind. And from the
land of heaven where He has gone, He has sent the great
overflow of the Spirit of Life to drive out the sin that
would destroy the life of our spirits. And this overflow
into our spirits can be so mighty that the Apostle Paul
could say "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet
not I, but Ch1'ist liveth in me,"" "To me to live is Christ. "i·
•· Christ who is our Life." !
Then look at the closing words, "No man cometh
unto the Father but by Me'', They mean first, that He was
going to His Throne at God's right Hand and that through
His Name and His alone, would be the right to come to
the Father. His is the Name that gives access.** In Him
"we have an Advocate with the Father". "Neither is there
s,alvation in any other, for there is no other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." §
And at last will come the true arriving, for then will
the ultimate goal be reached, when the glory of the sight
of Jesus will burn away all our dross and melt us into
His image, and "we shall be like Him for we shall see Him
as Re is."* And then will His Church be perfected, and
presented "faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding joy." i"
Now we come to the secret of the overflow of His life
to us from the place where He has gone, that will prepare
us for that day that is our hope.
• Gal. 2. 20.
I John 2. I.
• I John 3. 2.
t Phil. I. 21.
§ Acts 4. 12.
t Jude 24.
+ Col. 3. 4.