Self Is The Root, The Tree, And

This New Birth In Christ, Thus Firmly Believed And Continually Desired, Will Do Everything That Thou Wantest To Have Done In Thee, It Will Dry Up All The Springs Of Vice, Stop All The Workings Of Evil In Thy Nature, It Will Bring All That Is Good Into Thee, It Will Open All The Gospel Within Thee, And Thou Wilt Know What It Is To Be Taught Of God.

Be Intent Upon The Perfection Of The Present Day.

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.

Read Whatever Chapter Of Scripture You Will, And Be Ever So Delighted With It - Yet It Will Leave You As Poor, As Empty And Unchanged As It Found You Unless It Has Turned You Wholly And Solely To The Spirit Of God, And Brought You Into Full Union With And Dependence Upon Him.

Receive Every Day As A Resurrection From Death, As A New Enjoyment Of Life; Meet Every Rising Sun With Such Sentiments Of God's Goodness, As If You Had Seen It, And All Things, New-created Upon Your Account: And Under The Sense Of So Great A Blessing, Let Your Joyful Heart Praise And Magnify So Good And Glorious A Creator.