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under this very law of co- WORKING. Through this the 

 world was to be regenerated and filled with His life 

 and light. Through this a new creation was to be 

 enfolded in the bosom of His glory, of grander dimen- 

 sions and of diviner attributes than that over which the 

 morning stars sang at the birth of time. Said this 

 law to the individual soul : " Work out your salvation 

 with fear and trembling, for it is (rod that worketh in 

 you to will and to do of His own good pleasure." To 

 will and to do. It is His own good will and pleasure 

 that the soul shall be fitted and lifted up to its high 

 destiny through this co- working. It was His power to 

 raise it to that condition without man's participation or 

 conscious acquiescence ; but it was His will and pleasure 

 to enact this law of salvation. Looking across the 

 circumference of the individual soul, what says this 

 law ? " Go ye out into all the world and preach the 

 gospel to every creature, and, lo, I am with you unto 

 the end," not as an invisible companion, not merely 

 with the still small voice of the Comforter to cheer you 

 in trial, weakness and privation ; but with you as a 

 co-worker, with the irresistible energies of the Spirit of 

 Power. He might have done the whole work alone. 

 He might have sent forth twelve, and twelve times 

 twelve legions of angels, and given each a voice as loud 

 as His who is to wake the dead, and bid them preach 



