that is healthy, not double-sighted, our Lord says the whole spiritual body shall be full of light.  The light is in the body, because the body is in the light.  I mean just what the Lord meant, the spiritual body, for Paul says:  ‘There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.’  But he goes on and says:  ‘However, that which is natural is first.’  This we can all see and know.  We know that we were not naturally born of God.  ’That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit,’ and what is born of the Spirit is the spiritual body.

“To be in Christ is to be in his love.  I was once asked this question by an individual who probably wished to puzzle me.  He said:  ’You preach that a man must be in Christ to be saved, and at the same time say that Christ must be in the man.  How is this?’ I answer by using a very plain illustration.  I said to him:  When you get uncomfortably cool in the shade, and move to where the sun can shine full upon your body, do you not feel its warmth?  Now, I said to him, the warmth of the sun is in your body, because your body is in the warmth of the sun.  Just so we may say it is with us in a spiritual sense.  The love of Christ enters our hearts when we place ourselves where that love can reach us.  Now let me say, by way of digression from my main point that the love of Christ will never enter a man in a drinking saloon or in a gambling hall, because it is not there.  Such places are as destitute of the truth and divine love of Christ as the darkest and coldest night is destitute of the light and heat of the sun.  ’Behold, I make all things new.’  This is just what the Lord will do in every man’s mind and heart, spirit and soul, thoughts and affections, purposes and their accomplishments, who opens the door and bids him come in.  This is the glorious work of regeneration.

“But, Brethren beloved, let us inquire a little as to whether the church, our own church I mean, needs to be made over anew, or as we may say, needs to be renovated.  Can any brother or sister in this house say:  ’I am just as pure in heart as I desire to be.  My faith never grows weak; my love never grows cold.  I am as innocent and pure in all my affections and thoughts as a little child.  I have no jealousy or envy in my soul.  I never get angry, or think of wishing evil to any one.  I have the spirit of Christ in me in all perfection, and have purified myself even as he is pure’?  I repeat the question with emphasis, Is there a soul in this house who can truthfully say all this?  I can answer boldly that there is not, for it is not given to man away down in his imperfect state here to have such sinless perfection.  The most heavenly-minded amongst us have often to mourn over our shortcomings; and the holiest man or woman, looking into his or her own heart with an eye filled with the light of gospel truth, can but at the best say, with the poor publican:  ’God be merciful to me a sinner.’