Sanctify them through Thy Truth
" My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken Thou me according to Thy word." —Psalm 119:25 [KJV] One would dread that state most of all others, which St. Paul describes, "being past feeling." — Ephesians 4:19 . True, there is this alleviation, such are insensible of their deplorable condition. But if the great trumpet of the gospel awakes not the soul in this life to spiritual sense and feeling, verily the loud archangel's trumpet will awaken it to hear its awful sentence and feel its dreadful doom in the last day. O what a miracle of grace to be quickened, to know one's misery, to feel one's wants, to believe the remedy, and cry for relief! This blessed work is not of the will of the flesh. No man can quicken his own soul; it is the sovereign work of almighty power; it is equally ascribed to the loving Father, the redeeming Son, and the sanctifying Spirit— John 5:21 and 6:63 —therefore gracious souls give all the glory to the ever-blessed Trin