This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVII. CHRISTIAN GLORY. There is no Divine limit to Christian experience. The gracious gift is ' according to the riches of his glory" (Eph. 3: 16). Man's spiritual nature like his intellect, is susceptible of endless improvement. Prof. Henry Smith, President of the Mathematical Society of London, declared: "Nature has placed no insuperable barrier against the further advance of mathematical science. The boundaries of our present knowledge lie so close at hand that the inquirer has no very long journey to take before he finds himself in an unknown land." Scientific progress is no longer obstructed by the narrow conservatism of the middle ages. But that conservatism still trammels spiritual progress. Even many of the professed friends of Christ controvert the degree to which Christ now saves believers. Is it truly any marvel that division and doubt hinder the progress of Christianity? The alarm sounded in the Episcopal Address for the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1896, is suggestive: "It can not be too deeply impressed upon our minds that in all ages the church has fallen far short of the Divine ideal, both in purity and power. God's thought and plans for His church are as high above ours as the heavens are above the earth. His Scriptures are full of promises. His skies are full of Pentecosts. 'Ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you, ' is the limitless Divine si6 promise. Heaven and earth are put in pledge for its fulfillment. Both shall pass away sooner than one jot or tittle of His word can fail. When we look at His ideal, promise, provision, and power, at the humiliation and exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the unwordable groanings of the Holy Spirit, it seems as if provision and performance were scarcely...