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 unceasing inward movement of attention and verification in matters which are three-fourths of human life, where to see true and to verify is not difficult, the difficult thing is to care and to attend. And the inducement to attend was because joy and peace, missed on every other line, were to be reached on this.

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But for this world of busy inward movement created by the method of Jesus, a rule of action was wanted; and this rule was found in his secret. It was this of which the Apostle Paul afterwards possessed himself with such energy, and called it 'the word of the cross,' or, necrosis, 'dying.' The rule of action St. Paul gave was: 'Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body!' In the popular theurgy, these words are commonly referred to what is called 'pleading the blood of the covenant,'—relying on the death and merits of Christ (in pursuance of the contract originally passed in the Council of the Trinity) to satisfy God's wrath against sinners and to redeem us. But they do really refer to words of Jesus, often and often repeated, and of which the following may very well stand as pre-eminently representative: ' ''He that will save his life shall lose it; he that will lose his life shall save it. He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. Whosoever will come after me, let him renounce himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.'' ' These words, or words like them, were repeated again and again, so that no reporter could miss them. No reporter did miss them. We find them, as we find the method of conscience, in all the four Gospels. Perhaps there is no