Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Personal Experience. [ARTICLE]

Personal Experience.

Many naftwr down the power of the Gospel within -constitutional limits; they dh> not expect to And in it grace enough to counteract and wtercouoe the evils of natunai temperameutiand.life-longhabit. And yet men find constantly that receiving Christ will deliver (from the habit and even, the desire for using intoxicating driaks; and it was designed that the grace of God should prove just ns powerful in delivering from every other evil tendency and habit as from these. Indeed every one who has tasted that the Lord is gracious has found a measure of freedom from besetting sins, some victories over spiritual foes. Ia these partial triumphs, my reader, we are to see Christ’s willingness to give Complete victory even over those evils which he very deeply imbedded in our nature. He has made provision that the impatient may become patient; the selfish, benevolent; the timid, bold; the wavering, firm. There is no constitutional bias which the grace of God cannot counteract and overcome. Beaide, every Christian can testify that never did he tiopestly seek Divine help against any besetting sin, when that help was not given, and it is impossible it should be otherwise. Moreover, never did , he find such help in time of need, without having the conviction deeply forced upon his soul, that greater power still lay beyond, and

greater victory was waiting for the future; that Christ indeed came not simply that we might have life but that we “ might have it more abundantly,” “ Have yon on the lord believed? Still then's more to follow; Of Hie grace hare yon received? Still there's more to follow; Oh the grace the Father shows! Still there's more to follow: Freely HI His grace bestows! Still there's more to follow.” — Rev. Wm. M. llaigh, in Chicago Standard.