Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — Phillips Brooks on Christian Life. [ARTICLE]

Phillips Brooks on Christian Life.

The great part of the lffe, after becoming a Christian, will be spent as before; we shall buy and sell ana get gain; but the purposes are all changed, all have become new; the consecration of life to the Master has sanctified them, and the old has become new. That is the heavenly vision which Paul saw; and if we only obey It all is well. The vision comes to everyone somewhere and) at some time. Do not dan to dream that it has come, or Is not coating to you. It is like the sun shining gloriously in the East, and shining in at every window, unless the windows have been barred to keep out th% blessed light. It 1b utterly all the world to whom the Savior offers himself. Believe this I Believe it, Christians, as you go to other men with Christ’s invitation. Believe it, sinner, for it is true. St. Paul said: “1 was obpdient”—l did what it was manifest to me I ought to do. It is simply taking the salvation which Christ holds out to you bv doing what you feel yOu ought to do. Have you Hot the heavenly vision to-night ? Then came by and by another vision to Paul, when his soul saw unutterable things, which he could not tell to mortal man. This latter vision will come to all who are obedient to the first. Let not men think for a moment that to be a Christian is to be a crushed and broken tiling. ’ To be obedient to the Heavenly vision transforms one finally into the image of the Master.