:368 PROGRESSIVE SANCTIFICATION. itself. The man to whom it was asserted, that there was no such thing as motion, made the most definitive answer, he got up and walked. Every advance of the Christian in- clines him to push on to still further advances. But under the influence of this stationary principle, the busy cur- rent of life would become a stagnant pool. It is motion which gives the sense ofspiritual, as well as ofnatural, life. It is progress which gives the sustaining feel- ing, not of independent, but of infused strength. Hope, which is the pulse of spiritual life, would not only intermit, but stand still. " Is this all?" would the disappointed Christian say. " Shall I never be more holy than I now am? I do not find the right sort of rest in being a fixture." Torpor is not ease, numbness is not relief. It is exercise, not indo- lence, which induces safe and wholesome repose. New difficulties, fresh trials, unknown temptations, may yet assail us in our
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