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234 When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household. —.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ. —.

When you sincerely embrace Jesus as your Saviour, and rest on His atonement for pardon, when you look to Him for daily direction, lean on Him for support, and are joined to Him in heart union, then you may be sure that you have got the everlasting rock bed underneath you. —.

Here then is man's duty. It is to receive that free and full salvation that Christ has provided. It is to stretch forth the hand of faith, and with it take the proffered salvation. It is to cling to the cross as the only hope of everlasting life. Will you do it? Weary, working, plodding one, will you, ceasing all this vain attempt to save yourself, receive Christ, and Christ alone as your Saviour? —.

From that time Mr. Moody ceased to urge people to begin their religious life by finding something to do for Christ; but insisted that, first of all, they should let Christ do something for them. If they would only believe, Christ would help them to be and to do. —.

With Mary and Thomas, with the millions who have lived and died triumphant in the blessed assurance of the infinite love and omnipotence of Christ, we can stand by that middle cross, and say adoringly, lovingly, joyfully, "My Brother! my Lord! my God!"