This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... Third Day. BE PERFECT perfect wftb tbe XotO tbe (c)o&. 'Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.'--Deut. xviii. 13. TO be perfect before God is not only the calling and the privilege of a man like Abraham, it is equally the duty of all his children. The command is given to all Israel, for each man of God's people to receive and obey: 'Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.' It comes to each child of God; no one professing to bo a Christian may turn aside from it, or refuse it obedience, without endangering his salvation. It is not a command like, 'Thou shalt not kill, ' or, 'Thou shalt not steal, ' having reference to a limited sphere in our life, but is a principle that lies at the very root of all true religion. If our service of God is to be acceptable, it must not be with a divided, but a whole, a perfect heart. The chief hindrance in the way of obedience to this command lies in our misapprehension of what religion is. Man was created simply to live for God, to show forth His glory, by allowing God to show how completely He could reveal Hi3 likeness and blessedness in man. God lives for man; longing in the greatness of His love to communicate His goodness and His love. It was to this life, lost by sin, Christ came to redeem us back. The selfishness of the human heart looks upon salvation as simply the escapo from hell, with so much of holiness as is needful to make our happiness secure. Christ meant us to be restored to the state from which we had fallen--the whole heart, the whole will, the whole life given up to the glory and service of God. To be wholly given up to God, to be perfect with the Lord our God, lies at the very root, is the very essence of true religion. The enthusiastic devotion of the whole heart to God...