Men will recognize my Christianity by the sign of the Spirit of Christ. And they will accept no other witness. I saw a plant-pot the other day, full of soil, bearing no flower, but flaunting a stick on which was printed the word |Mignonette.| |Thou hast a name to live and art dead.| The world will take no notice of our labels and our badges: it is only arrested by the flower and the perfume. |If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His.|

And in the Spirit of Christ I shall best deal with |the things of the flesh.| There are some things which are best overcome by neglecting them. To give them attention is to give them nourishment. Withdraw the attention, and they sicken and die. And so I must seek the fellowship of the Spirit. That friendship will destroy the other. |Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.| If I am in communion with the Holy One the other will pine away, and cease to trouble me.

Lord, make my spirit a kinsman of Thine! Let the intimacy be ever deeper and dearer. |Draw me nearer, blessed Lord,| until in nearness to Thee I find my peace, my joy, and my crown.