THE highest proof of true friendship, and one great source of its blessedness...

OUR Lord has said what He gave as proof of His friendship: He gave His life for us.

Christ does indeed long to have us know that the secret root and strength of all He is and does for us as the Vine, is love.

He speaks of His relation to us as the rule of our love to our brethren...

Christ means it: you must obey, or you cannot abide in His love.

How can I be a happy Christian?

It is alone by obedience we can abide in His love.

The soul sees that it cannot claim the keeping of this wonderful love unless it yields itself to a life of entire obedience.

Our abode, the home of our soul, is to be the love of Christ.

He leads us once again to Himself, to show us how identical His own life is with ours.

Those who bear much fruit are disciples!

How can we glorify God? By allowing His glory to shine out through us...

The Vine and its Branches are such a true parable of the Christian life, because all nature has one source and breathes one spirit.

THE whole place of the branch in the vine is one of unceasing prayer.

A man can come to such a connection with Christ, that he counts himself to be in Him, and yet he can be cast forth.

In everything the life of the Branch is to be the exact counterpart of that of the Vine.

Have you ever noticed the difference in the Christian life between work and fruit?

Let us present ourselves before our Lord, until He speaks to each of us in power, and our whole soul feels it.

The only way to obey the command, Abide in Me, is to have eye and heart fixed upon Christ Himself.

There is but one way for the branch to bear fruit, there is no other possibility, it must abide in unbroken communion with the vine.