WISE COUNSEL FROM HENRY DRUMMOND:

Knowing Christ.

How do we get to know Christ? Put away all doctrines and try to become a little child in answering this. Just in the same way as you get te know anybody else.

Personal acquaintance generally begins by two or three

words of conversation, and so with religion. Don’t take

your inquirer to a text in the first place. You may give

it him as a documentary evidence that he may look up

and build upon in some respects; but rather than that,

introduce him to your friend and get him to talk to him.

Start the two in life together. Get him to go down on

his knees and open communion with Jesus Christ. Then

you have him at once in the heart of things. He does

not have to wait ten years before he learns how to abide

in Christ. He begins at the outset, and, supposing he

lived a thousand years, you could not do anything more

than take him to Christ, and leave it to him. The whole

of religion is summed up in coming to Christ and sitting

there. ‘Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I com-

mand you.” Cause and effect. There will be begotten

in you all those things which He has: Peace and for-

giveness and joy and love. The whole duty is to come

to Christ; their status has been determined by the prin-

ciples of eternity, and they may have confidence that,

coming to Him, they will in no wise be cast out.

— HENRY DRUMMOND.