religion, I got it good and thorough. Christ became everything to me.
The law of sin, or temptation to worldly conformity of any kind, was
completely eradicated from my heart; and from that hour to this the law
of Christ has fully satisfied my soul, and made me gloriously free and
independent of the world and its maxims and pleasures. And now, after
fifty-five years' enjoyment of peace with God and humble devotion to his
service, I bless him that I ever gave him my heart and devoted myself to
his work. I am happy. The consoling comforts of the grace of God are
with me by day and by night, and the blessed future is radiant with the
hope of being 'numbered with the saints in glory everlasting.'"

In these days of compromise and doubt we need to have as definite an
experience of salvation as had William Butler. He who would win others
to a new life must himself possess that life, and know it, being able to
say with Paul, "I know whom I have believed."




STUDY IX.

A COMPLETE SURRENDER.

Memory Verse: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service."--(Rom. xii, 1.)

Scripture for Meditation: Rom. vi, 1-13.