== to attend at Keswick, I have been receiving more and more blessing. But it has been at this last blessed Convention that my longings have been most fully answered and satisfied, and that the Lord Jesus has become to me, in a fuller and more real sense, my living personal Saviour. "I return home, to many difficulties and much bodily trial, with a more glorious sense of the reality of His splendid promise, Lo, I am with you alway;' a more definite committal of my all to His blessed keeping; and a fuller understanding of the little word Take.' I am persuaded that there is still much more in store for me. To His name be all the praise." "It is many years since I trusted the Lord for pardon, and not a few since I have looked to Him for guidance in many ways; but the government of my life was virtually in my hands, though nominally in His. I have often besought other Christians to take Christ for Lord as well as Saviour, but did not always do so myself. Satan told me, as often as I thought of doing so, that He would be stern and severe as Master, and put me to such trying work, for which I had no courage, or perhaps ability. The Lord showed me the hindrance by the lips of His dear servant, Mr. Fox. There was a chamber in my heart which I was reserving for another, and refused to give up to the Lord, and now I had lost the key.' I offered it Him on Wednesday night, and He soon found the key and took possession, and now 'the government' is 'upon His shoulders.' I am no more my own; He has long been mine and now I am His.' Bless His name for His long patience in waiting for me, and blessing me all the long waiting-time. It was easy to step out upon the void' when He revealed Himself to me. He showed me He would rever put me to work to which my earthly parent would not put me, neither should the burden of to-morrow trouble me to-day. Amen.' " reading of Miss Havergal's life, however, showed me that something better can be obtained and retained, and in God's grace I now possess and enjoy it. Under its influence I know and feel my life has been happier and holier, and my preach. ing has been with much more delight to myself, and power among my people. The effect of the change, in bringing us into the constant presence of Christ, in keeping us in momentary, loving dependence upon Him, in giving us deeper peace and greater purity, in delivering us more and more from self, and enabling us in all things to aim at pleasing Him-all this you know better than I can describe. "I may say I have read everything nearly I could lay my hands upon, that had any bearing upon the question, and my views and conceptions of what is true and false have gradually become more and more clear. It seems to me the blessing is in all cases essentially the same, and the means of attaining it the same, but brethren differ in their interpretation of the result. I concur in the views so well and so wisely expressed in your Conference. Those who claim perfect sanctification unfortunately lower the standard of perfection, and call that no sin which in the sight of God is sin. We may distinguish between voluntary and involuntary sin, and it may be that it is only the voluntary that interrupts our communion with Christ; but the involuntary streams show too plainly the remaining impurity of the fountain. Still in Christwhat safety of position, what fulness of privilege, what certainty of victory. What we all need is to hold, to realise, to avail ourselves to the full of this Divinely-given position." -From a Scotch Minister. "The first time I attended the Keswick Convention was in 1877. I had always been carefully instructed in the Scriptures, and could repeat nearly all the Epistle to the Romans, but I had always believed it was for the most part figurative, and I was content to think I did not understand the 6th "By the steps of our father Abraham (in the daily chapters chapter, which, however, I had often read and puzzled over. of our Bible Union for these days) He taught me to go forth Every word spoken at that Convention was a new revelation in faith, with His sure promise of blessing; and we shall to me, and before its close I understood for the first time Lave the victory (chap. xiv.), and a blessed interview each what people meant by consecration, and I did, as far as I then time with our Melchizedec. Never shall I forget the Keswick knew, yield myself to the Lord; but I thought it was an act to Convention of 1882, nor forget, I trust, to pray for God's be doue once for all, and before many weeks had passed I beloved servants who have brought His messages to us. To felt that I was still under the dominion of sin, and I became Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. very restless and unhappy. At the Convention of 1880 I realised that instead of seeking indefinitely for the blessing which I saw others enjoy, what I needed was Christ Himself, and in Him I have rested and rejoiced ever since, but still I have been conscious I was not really abiding in Him, but continually going back to Him, too often to confess the same sins, and it was not till just before coming to this last Convention that I realised that my will had never yet been really yielded to His keeping. For the last three weeks before coming to Keswick it seemed to be stronger than ever, and I went to each of the first meetings wondering whether, if you were to give out hymn 234 (Mountain's collection), I could say it, My will is the will of my God'; I felt I could not, and yet it was my earnest desire. But before you selected that hymn, God had spoken to me, in the preceding address, and I had committed the keeping of my will to Him, and now I can say, as never before, 'I know whom I have "I enjoyed my three days' stay at Keswick greatly. It was a time of much spiritual refreshment. From what I saw and heard, I cannot doubt that many received permanent spiritual benefit, and must have left the meetings qualified in heart, and resolved in mind to work as they have never heretofore done for the advancement of Christ's kingdom. "I was led in God's signal mercy to participate in the blessing more than a year ago. I had long walked in comparative light and freedom, and had no reason to doubt my interest in Christ; but still I felt there was much that was unsatisfactory in my spiritual state, and I fear I was not growing. I had a taste again and again of something better; but a variety of circumstances, and the inconsistencies of some teachers, as also my own carelessness, led me to regard a higher state as unattainable, except by slow degrees. The believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him.' I do not remember who was addressing us then, nor can I recall any special words; and indeed, on looking back to the meetings, Matt. xvii. 8 just expresses my feeling, for I have always found that when most I have received a message, I have forgotten all connection in which, and the speaker through whom, it came. Sometimes the simple reading of the Word with little or no comment has been the time of blessing, and sometimes the message has not come home to me till I have been alone in my room. God has filled me with joy and peace in believing; my one desire now is to do His will and live indeed only for Him, that all about me may know, not only that I have been with Jesus, but that I am abiding in Him, and His spirit is in me." "I went to Keswick, hoping to receive a great power for service. We were a party of elever, and one of the young ladies joined me in asking for we hardly knew what. We had assurance, peace, and a certain amount of joy, but we wanted a definite more than that. One day, while talking to Mr. he questioned us as to our having yielded our all to God. 'Yes,' I said confidently, I know of nothing kept back.' He asked if we were willing to go anywhere, do anything, or be anything. 'Oh, yes, quite.' Then he suggested we might have this rest, and yet be looking for it. No, we were sure it was not that.' Just as we were parting he said, 'One thing more, are you willing not to work-simply be nothing?' 'No,' I answered, 'I must work for God.' 'Here is the difficulty,' and at once he lovingly pointed out that self was not truly yielded. That night my friend and I remained to the after-meeting, during which my friend turned round, saying, I have got it.' It seemed almost more than I could bear, to feel that she had received and myself passed by. I did yield all, and Mr. Hopkins sent us away with, Fact, Faith, Feeling.' I went back, not to sleep, but to seek for a fact. The words, The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all ain,' came to me with great force, and 'I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him.' The whole of the next day I rested on those words, remained to the after-meeting, and received these words, 'I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.' And I argued thus-If He will keep it every moment, there is no time left for me to do it. Yet I could only rest on that, and pray, Increase my faith. That evening I thought, as the facts were all so clear, I would not remain, and Captain Payne's address, or rather testimony, showed me how very much more there was to be obtained, so that I felt I would simply wait patiently for my Father to make it plain. But I could not get out-God shut me in. There were people on the right and left lower down, and I could not get out. That evening my eyes were opened to see the truths contained in God's word as I had never seen them before, and the rest was perfect. On Saturday, while at breakfast, Mr. was saying how it rejoiced his heart to see so many bright faces, for every one of us had received a blessing, and all according to our need. He said also, that it seemed to him now, that we were seated at our Father's table, and the good things were spread out before us; it just remained for us to help ourselves. And I wished I could realise something of the joy and glory of abiding in Him for feasting. I could say, 'Master, I no longer live, do Thy will and I shall have all, for Thou hast said, "All things are yours." And on Sunday evening during the Communion service, I received such an insight into God's love and such a sight of Jesus and His helping power, it was the peace that passeth understanding," and I cannot explain it. But I find it is lasting, and it is a 'now' moment by moment. The past has left me; the future has nothing to do with me, only the 'now' have I to do with. Mr. Bowker said some very helpful words; Pasteur Monod also helped me considerably, in fact I think no person spoke without power; but I feel the 'good voice' was kept till Sunday, when Mr. Fox gave that beautiful illustration of the boy home from school, I added for myself 'no more out.' Then his words on love were very searching, and to end with the sermon in the evening, it was so clear and to the point. Step by step He led me on, using all His instruments to do the work, and now I feel it is such a precious rest, and that 'it is better farther on.' I have only just got into the realisation of the full and perfect cleansing, and have not had time to see or examine all the good things my Father has kept waiting for me. He is bringing them out one by one. I do most heartily thank Him." "I always felt hungry and unsatisfied, and that I was coming short of what God intended for me. I knew that all fulness was in Christ, but it was as if I could not get at it. I saw the possibility of a life of faith, and now and then realised a little of it, but it was a case of ups and downs. At Keswick, God showed me that He meant me not just to come to Him to supply my reed, but to live in Him, and now for the first time in my life I know what it is to abide in Christ and to go no more out." "The effect of the first few days' meetings was different indeed from what I had anticipated, for I got such views of self as utterly and deeply humiliated me, and I was wretched. My whole life past seemed to have been lived to self, though for twenty-five years I had been a professed follower of the Lord Jesus, aye, and used of Him too in soul-winning and in many other ways; but I felt that my life had been a failure, as I had never really understood the keeping power of my blessed Lord, depending upon Him moment by moment for everything. The sweet hymn that we sang, 'Not a sound invades the stillness' fairly broke me down, and I took to my heart of hearts in sweet appropriation every word, especially of that beautiful chorus' Blessed bridegroom of my heart.' "The addresses of Pasteur Monod, Mr. Peploe, Mr. Fox, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Hopkins, with many helpful thoughts from the dear ladies, bad all helped me, and I was enabled to trust that night fully to the Saviour's power to cleanse, to fill, and to keep me henceforth and for ever. I took the step in the dark as it were and no joy ensued, but on Saturday, as I journeyed home, such blessed light came, filling and irradiating my whole being, and I got such glimpses of Jesus as my King as filled my eyes with tears and caused me to look up transfixed almost as I beheld Him in IIis beauty and realised in some measu e all that He was to me. I went forth on Sunday in new power to my Bible-class teaching, and we wept together over the word which had become to teacher and taught newly illumined." "The last three years since I have known the Lord's love He has been very precious to me, but it has been very up and down, for self has had the dominion over me. I have known there was something better; it seems so simple now; instead of asking, wishing, hoping Christ to be with me, now it is knowing that He is and that He will never leave me. I am not in a hurry about much feeling, for it is enough to know that He is with me, sufficient for any need, and that now there cannot be any impossibilities, for He will show the way through anything He commands. I do thank Him for everything in those four days, that through the Holy Spirit's work everything was put so clearly that it was impossible to escape from deciding which to choose, self or Christ." "Long ago I knew something of the Rest of Faith, but lately I found I was not wholly surrendered to God. Since I have come to Keswick I find that God has shown me more of sins of thought and feeling than I ever knew before, but Las also taught me to trust in the blood that cleanseth. The thought of the anointing of the Spirit has been a new one tɔ us, and we are determined to seek until we find, and pray in faith that the Lord whom we seek will come to the temple that He has cleansed and is cleansing." "I praise God that during these days, through the lips of His dear servants, He has been showing Himself to me in at clearer, simpler way than before, as the Great, Present I Am, whose love and power it would be sin in me ever to distrust again. I do not feel all I am longing to feel, but He is faithful. I desire to live as I never have before, as oue to whom He says, 'All things are yours,' and 'Ye are not your own'; and trust Him to keep me in the continued attitude and action of yielding myself and my all to Him, to give me grace always to accept His promises and carry out His commands." "I was brought up a Free-thinker and never came under active Christian influence until about a year and a-half ago, though I can now look back and recognise the wondrous way the Lord was leading me, even when I knew Him not. I was convinced mentally, first, that Christ was God; then it naturally followed that I owed Him my life. Some friends took me to the Mildmay Conference, and at that time I had for three Sundays the privilege of attending Mr. WebbPeploe's church. Up to October last I was enjoying peace and rest in the Lord. Then came cares and troubles, and undisciplined affections. I believed I had given all to Christ, but when the trial came I did not rest in Him. Since then it has been getting worse and worse. I have been miserable, knowing all I had lost, until when a dear friend asked me to come here with her. I thought, I am a rebellious child, the Lord cannot bless me. The first two days were fearful, but on Wednesday night the Lord spoke to me through His servant Pastor Monod, and then, while I was utterly bumbled and broken and lost, showed me Himself. I cannot yet speak of that, it is too solemn and too precious. I can and do say, 'He is mine, and I am His for ever.' He does give me rest. He keeps me, and the blessed experience He gives me is best expressed in Ps. xxxi. 20 and lv. 16-18. I cannot say any more. That He may keep me so humble, that He may be able to use me and shine through me, and that He may more and more abundantly bless you and the other honoured instruments through whom He has been speaking to us, is my earnest prayer. I should like to add that knowing so well the doctrine was a serious hindrance, for I felt it added to my responsibility that I was mentally assenting and yet not fully trusting." "My blessing may seem small to others, but to myself it means much. Years ago I believed I fully surrendered myself to the Lord, but from reading and hearing so much of the erroneous doctrine of entire sanctification,' and seeing more and more of the evil in my own heart, that was time after time revealed to me, I became discouraged, Satan getting advantage over me in making me think it was all a mistake my having given myself wholly up to the Lord. Now I am free, for I see clearly that, experimentally, sanctification is progressive; and as self manifests itself in forms not hitherto seen to be sin, it is simply handing it over to the Lord to be Overcome. Rev. Webb-Peploe's address on the difference between crucifixion and death was the means of bringing me into this liberty. Much else that I heard confirmed and established me, so that now my experience is, 'He hath established my goings.' "When I came here last week I was not looking for any definite blessing from God, I only came to be with a very dear friend, in fact I hardly knew what a Conference meant; but when I heard M. Monod say I was robbing God by not consecrating myself to Him, and when he went on to say that one person not giving himself might keep the blessing from all, I felt I must give myself-body, soul, and spirit-to I have not the great Him, to have and to keep for ever. feeling of joy some seem to have, but I am resting in the fact that I am no longer mine, but Christ's." "God has blessed me by leading me just to trust Christ to keep me. I had long believed in His power and willingness to keep me, but He did not always do it: I have now learned why-I had not yielded myself to be kept. I have also learned to yield myself to Him, and just to rest upon His Word, which cannot fail. I have learned also that Jesus is my sanctification, and that, abiding in Him, God looks upon me as holy, but it is Jesus must keep me in abidingyes, it's all Jesus; the first and last, my all in all. "And now I go back to my fellow-students to testify by word, if it be His will, but especially by my life, of His wondrous power to keep under all the very peculiar circumstances of college life; and if it be His holy will to lead them to trust their all to Him-talents, reputation, all-and to show that Christ does make it possible to live here a life of holiness, if we abide in Him; and I trust Him to keep me abiding-yes, it is all Christ. He must keep me trusting, abiding, loving, serving, growing, so long as I am here; for this I believe, and I do rejoice that it has been so emphatically expressed. I shall never-on this side Heaven-be in a position not to need Jesus—' all the way along it is Jesus.' To Him be the praise and glory. Amen." "I shall always remember this week as the happiest in my life, because I have been led to give myself fully to the Lord Jesus, and to trust Him as my Keeper. I had been for some time longing for a higher Christian life, but had read and heard so many different views of sanctification that I was quite bewildered. I came to Keswick hoping and praying for light and peace, and I do thank God it has come to me. On Thursday evening I had such a view of Jesus, as one and another spoke, that I could not help trusting Him, and a feeling of quiet rest came to me when, in the after. meeting I stood up with those who consecrated themselves to God. The feeling was wavering next day, and I was tempted to think that there had been no reality in my profession. But this afternoon the peace was indeed in my heart as I rested in the thought- The Lord is my Keeper.' Before, I have thought too much of sanctification as a state to be attained-now I see that it is simply looking unto Jesus, the Sanctifier." "The good Lord has confirmed to me the blessing He before vouchsafed to me, and on Friday night definitely anointed me for His service. I would say that this blessing was not a further manifestation of my Lord Jesus Christ to my soul, but a deep consciousness of His having apprehended me for His service, and that I am now, in a way I never before experienced, no longer my own, but that I feel constrained in every way to glorify my God with my body and my spirit which are God's." "I am one of the many who are praising God for this Convention. For some time beforehand God had been show I ing me something of the desperate evil of my own heart, till was almost in despair. My whole Christian life seemed to have been a terrible failure, if not altogether a delusion; and though hearing continually of the fulness of blessing in Christ to meet every need, it seemed as if I could not get it for myself. 'I came here weary and heavy-laden beyond description, and with the feeling, I must have the blessing now or never. Thank God, He has given it me now! "The truth that has brought me into rest is that which has been dwelt on by many speakers (Gal. ii. 20), and now I see more than ever before of the glorious possibilities of the Christian life, when self is crucified, and Christ Himself takes full possession of the soul. God grant that I may live it out henceforth in a truly consecrated walk! I may add that all the teaching in the Convention has been so helpful that I cannot single out any in particular that has been blessed to me. I am deeply thankful for all." "The chief blessing that I have received at this Convention is that Jesus my Saviour is infinitely more precious to me than ever He was before. On Him I can rest." "I have indeed received the most wonderful blessing from God. I can scarcely say I really asked for or understood it until Tuesday's meeting, and it was not until then that I really longed to have Christ constantly living in me, and ruling my thoughts and actions. But on Tuesday night and Wednesday I was giving myself up to Him, and I have since known well that He has taken me, and come Himself to reign over me, and has given me a clean heart, and I am trusting Him hourly to keep it so purified that I may be a Temple that His Spirit will live in. “He has made me very happy, and last night showed Himself to me at His table as I have never seen Him before. I must thank my God always for bringing me here.” "Four years ago God brought me to Keswick for the first time. Thank God, since then Christ has never failed when I have trusted Him; but I am indeed ashamed to think how often I have failed to obey and trust. This time I have had a blessing, and thank God with all my heart for letting me come to Keswick-'Heaven upon earth,' as it is for me. I have had no feelings,' but I have had a fresh view of Christ, of His love and His power, and He has shown me my sinfulness and weakness, and yet taught me to say, 'In the Lord have I righteousness and strength.' "Oh, I do thank God that ever there has been this Keswick Convention, and that His Spirit has taken away the veil from so many of our eyes, and revealed to us in any degree what Christ is." "During the first few days of the Convention I was very much humbled. The Holy Ghost so operated on me that I felt myself to be the most guilty wretch on the face of the earth. But, thanks be unto God, this experience did not last. After the humbling time came the appropriating time, after making a full surrender of myself, body, soul, and spirit. Then I realised the fulness there is in Christ, and how safe I am in His keeping. "And now my prayer is that God will keep me in this state of passive obedience to His will, and that I may be enabled to consecrate myself daily to His service, and to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ moment by moment, so that I may be used by Him in bringing others to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus." NOT 1, BUT CHRIST. I am very weak and wavering, I am but an earthen vessel; I-oh, let the I be buried, Thou from death and sin hast saved me, Ob, the cleansing blood hath reached me! SUCH was the Song set to new instruments, and such the experience which dawned freshly upon many souls during those days of blessing. As a new tide of revelation it seemed to break in upon | hearts, and in the precious fulness of its realisation to inundate them with joy and peace and glory in believing. Every day, at almost any meeting, the words could be heard-as it were, filling the place -the wondrous story of the CLEANSING POWER OF THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. It was the key-note of the Convention, from the very beginning up to the far end. ... From the first morning-when the chord was struck from the words, "He shall sit as a Refiner and PURIFIER ; . . and He shall purify . . . and purge," for the Lord whom ye seek shall SUDDENLY come to His Temple-to the last Praise Meeting, when the closing note sounded was, "We have known of Peace, and we have sought Power; now the Lord hath shown us the connecting link, and that is, PURITY"-throughout the whole, the message of God was this Cleansing. Under different aspects and in varied form, with many changes rung on it, still the deep hidden thought was ever Cleansing. Cleansing necessary, cleansing possible; and then the glorious fulness of its reality, as one after another rose, while the days passed on, to testify to cleansing received! And this led up to the last word of Friday night, and prepared the way for it, when it was shown that the cleansing of the Temple is but an emptying out that there may be a filling in; He who has come in as the Cleanser will also come as the Baptiser with the Holy Ghost and with Fire. And for this is the cleansing realised; the blood flowing over-that upon the blood may flow the Holy Oil of anointing -the Presence of an indwelling Spirit for service in power. And for this Anointing of power, if not yet received, there may be as definite a surrender of the whole being, and as definite an act of faith to receive it, as there was for the cleansing which must precede it; and the promise which cannot fail is: "Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you." In cleansed temples-clean hearts-He comes to abide. "The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you." So though we seemed but on the threshold of a new world of revelation and endless treasure, through having, as one said, had "a glimpse of the unending blessing of the sprinkled blood," yet we found even another world of grace and power unfolding before us, still to be entered into, and to be entered into by surrender and faith, as were all the others. But faith in action was becoming a real thing to many of us; we were learning the meaning of its wondrous power to prevail; and more and more we are asking "nothing wavering," and we know "it shall be given," because we "know Him in whom we have believed," as we have never known Him before. We had waited on the Lord to realise this inward cleansing, and there came light as from the Shekinah, which revealed it to our spiritual consciousness, so that we knew that thing for ever.' The Touch of God was upon our soul, its living power thrilling every fibre of our being, and penetrating the hidden mysteries of the great deep within,-and we knew it; KNEW it was the Lord! The heralding of His incoming to dwell,- the flowing of the tide of fulness at last. And when the tide has turned, who can stop it, though but a wavelet has rolled in! So we are silent to Him "Let Him do what seemeth Him good." And yet, this is but a foretaste, an earnest of what is still to come, when, as He says, He will open the windows of heaven, and pour us out "a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it." There will be no hiding it in that day, no keeping it in-when the floodgates on High are swung back, the barriers on earth shall be broken, and the grand glorious stream of God shall rush on deluging the nations and reaching all the "out |