as well as irksomeness; and the sooner that we are stripped of unreality the better, both for peace and for usefulness. Men with their feet firmly set on Luther’s rock, ‘the righteousness of God,’ filled with the Spirit, and pervaded with the peace of God, do the great things in the church; others do the little. The men of robust spiritual health are they who, like Luther, have made sure of their filial relationship to God. They shrink from no battle, nor succumb to any toil. The men who go to work
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