Christian strives and fights and prays and wrestles to conquer, but in vain. It is self which is the one only cause of his failure. He tries to pluck off a fruit here and a bud there; he cuts off one branch after another of this terrible foe to love. He vows and strives and perhaps does grow a little in love, yet at the bottom has not got rest, and why? There is Something there that will not Love. Oh! may God discover to us that terrible something! Self! self! self! We shall then understand that