June 6

What is it that has happened to you, my Christian friend, my Christian brother, in these days in which your whole soul rejoices? You have been filled with Christ, you have been lifted up into a union with Him, that beats with the beating of His heart, shines with the impulse and enthusiasm of His desires. What has happened to you? Are you less a man than you used to be? Has your manhood been destroyed, and some strange, unknown thing put in its place? Do those of your brethren who are around you look at you and wonder how you have become so, how you have undergone that astonishing change? Nay, in every step which you take, in every word that you speak, in every touch of your life upon every other life, do not you and

those around you know that you have come a little nearer,—not yet to the fulfillment, but a little nearer—to the wondrous thing which it is to be a man?