October 12

The punishment of sin is inseparably bound up with itself. To refuse to deny one's self is just to be left with the self undenied. The discipline of life was meant to destroy this self, but that discipline having been evaded, its purpose is balked. But the soul is the loser. In seeking to gain its

life it has really lost it. This is what Christ meant when He said: "He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."