April 14

What is the great cry, what is the great aspiration? As the Apostle has lifted up his voice and sung out for us in the wondrous music of his great epistle: "Till we all come, in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God," —not to some strange, unnatural thing, not to humanity improved and changed into something else, but till we come "to the perfect man." It is good for us, it is right for us, it is true for us, it makes us strong, to know that. I am struggling toward myself, and just so far as the Christ comes and fills me I am the thing I am, the thing I was

first of all in the thought of God, before He sent me on the earth—the thing which by His grace I shall be as eternity perfects my life in Him.