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Excerpt from The Good Steward, or Systematic Beneficence: An Essential Element of Christianity
To accomplish these glorious results, Christianity is a perfect instrumentality; not as a dead organ ism, but as a system of life, deriving its efficiency from the Spirit of life. It is not a beautiful theory slumbering upon the sacred page, or ?oating unpractised in the intellect: but it is the impulse and the guide of a new life in man. Indeed we would not apply the name Christianity to the sys tem of truth, apart from the life-giving Spirit. A human body, though perfect in its parts, is not a man, if the soul be absent. The system of sacred truth becomes Christianity only when, by the Di Vine Spirit, it is made alive and operative in the hearts and practice of believers. As our Lord is called Christ, because he is the anointed Mediator - anointed by the immeasurable unction of the Holy Ghost: so the gospel scheme becomes Chris tianity only by the anointing which abideth in the believer, and teacheth him all things. 1 John ii. 27. Christianity is a ministration of the Spirit. 1 Cor. Iii. 8. It is the law Of the Spirit of life, making free from the law of sin and death. Rom. Viii. 2. The Holy Spirit is the agent, and gospel truth the instrumentality, by which the life of God in the soul of man is begun, developed, and perfected.
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