The Boatman's Daughter
by Alfred Barrett (9780217573795)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPIRITUAL FRUIT. Seldom does it happen that a real conversion stands isolated and alone. Our death to sin, like the death of Christ, is as the grain of corn cast in the ground which " bringeth forth much fruit:" and this fruit is the standing test of our Christianity. All the images of Scripture express a fruitful Christianity; every seed of the kingdom, every plant of the Father's planting, every living branch of Christ the Vine, grows and bears some heavenly product, makes it the germ of other products, and through this medium lays it up, continually accumulating, unto eternal life. All nature reflects, by analogy, this arrangement in the kingdom of grace,?the new creation. Every healthy vegetable structure toils to bring forth its appropriate fruit, and in seasons of heat and drought will economize all its vital resources to this end. Ellen was now joined to the Lord Jesus : not only new songs proceeded fromher lips, but a new power and life pervaded her soul; and this exhibited itself, as to her outward demeanor, in love and gentleness, in a gracious and serious frame of spirit, in efforts to do good to others, and in gladly witnessing for her divine Redeemer. For some time from this period it seems to have pleased the Lord to permit her to have an even and peaceful course; so tender are his dealings with many young disciples. She was young in grace, and was not yet subjected to the sharp test of discipline, though even this was in store for her, as the words of Christ would lead her to expect. For awhile the newly inserted branch grew forth green, and even fruitful; but it was destined, by sacred pruning, to bear yet more abundantly. The tasteful and gifted heathen, Virgil, has noticed in nature the beauty of the image upon which the instruction of the fifteenth c...

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