God is Light, and God is Love. And now the message comes to man. Can you
think of a higher nobility; can you think of anything grander than to take
the position that God takes, and to be one with God in His Kingdom; _i.e._,
to have His Kingdom fill your heart; to have God Himself as your King and
portion? Yes, my friends, let us remember that we must not just try to get
here and there one and another of the blessings of the Kingdom. But the
glory of the Kingdom is this: that it is the Kingdom of God where God is
all in all. The French Empire, when Napoleon lived, had military glory as
the ideal. Every Frenchman's heart thrilled at the name of Napoleon as the
man who had given the empire its glory. If we realized what it means,--our
God takes us up into His Kingdom and puts His Kingdom into us and with the
Kingdom we have God Himself, that blessed One, possessing us--surely there
would be nothing that could move our hearts to enthusiasm like this. The
Kingdom of God first! Blessed be His name I Look at man. I don't speak
about man's sins, and about man's wretchedness, and about man's seeking
everywhere for pleasure, and for rest, and for deliverance from sin, but
I just say: Think what man is by creation and think what man is now by
redemption; and let every heart say: "It is right. There is no blessedness
or glory like that of the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God ought to be first in
my whole life and being."

But now comes the important question, "How can I attain this?" Here we come
to the great question that is troubling the lives of tens of thousands
of Christians throughout the world. And it is strange that it is so very
difficult for them to find the answer; that tens of thousands are not able
to give an answer; and others, when the answer is given, can not understand
it; The day the centurion found his joy in being devoted to the Roman
Empire, it took charge of him with all its power and glory. Dear friends,
how are we to attain to this blessed position in which the Kingdom of God
shall fill our hearts with such enthusiasm that it will spontaneously be