My Lord is |the fountain of life.| |This life is in His Son.| The springs are nowhere else -- not in elaborate theologies, or in ethical ideals, or in literary masterpieces, or in music or art. |In Him was life.| It is so easy to forget the medicinal spring amid the distractions of the fashionable spa. There are some healing waters at Scarborough, but they have been almost |crowded out| by bands and entertainments. It is possible that the secondary ministries of the Church may crowd out the Church's Lord. I do not object to the entertainment if only it opens out on to the Spring!

To have the Son is to have life. Nothing else is needed. |Thou, O Christ, art all I want.| Ritualisms, and ecclesiasticisms, and formal theologies are not requisite. We can be saved without an academic knowledge of |the plan of salvation.| Many a gamekeeper's little child knows all the roads on the estate, although she would be quite |at sea| in explaining |the plan of the estate| which hangs in the house of the steward. |This is life eternal, to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.|