by His word.

IV. The last thought that is here is that this union and fruitfulness
lead to the noble ends of glorifying God and increasing discipleship.

'Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.' Christ's
life was all for the glorifying of God. The lives which are ours in
name--but being drawn from Him, in their depths are much rather the
life of Christ in us than our lives--will have the same end and the
same issue.

Ah, dear brethren, we come here to a very sharp test for us all. I
wonder how many of us there are, on whom men looking think more
loftily of God and love Him better, and are drawn to Him by strange
longings. How many of us are there about whom people will say, 'There
must be something in the religion that makes a man like that'? How
many of us are there, to look upon whom suggests to men that God, who
can make such a man, must be infinitely sweet and lovely? And yet
that is what we should all be--mirrors of the divine radiance, on
which some eyes, that are too dim and sore to bear the light as it
streams from the Sun, may look, and, beholding the reflection, may
learn to love. Does God so shine in me that I lead men to magnify His
name? If I am dwelling with Christ it will be so.

I shall not know it. 'Moses wist not that the skin of his face
shone'; but, in meek unconsciousness of the glory that rays from us,
we may walk the earth, reflecting the light and making God known to
our fellows.

And if thus we abide in Him and bear fruit we shall 'be' or (as the