The More Abundant Life Author:Phillips Brooks 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: and declared to be His. That act is the declaration of the child's emancipation. Not under sin, not in fear, not by other men's standards, not for himself, that ... more »child is to live; but there, at the very outset of his life, it is sublimely recognized that he can escape from all these only by claiming his place in his Father's household. If he is not God's child, why should he not be the world's drudge ? Oh, that that truth of the Baptism might run through all our lives! Oh, that we might expect no holiness, no courage, no independence, no self- sacrifice, except in the household and the heart of our Father; no liberty except the glorious liberty of the children of God! One Master, only one, have we ; His rule is perfect liberty ; His law is love, his love is life ; His service sets us free from strife, From fear, from self, from sin, from death ; In Him alone we draw free breath ; And, every earthly bondage riven, At last He makes us free of heaven ! Almighty and everlasting God, of Whose only gift it cometh that Thy faithful people do unto Thee true and laudable service ; Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so faithfully serve Thee in this life that we fail not finally to attain Thy heavenly promises ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. after tfoe Seconb Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?—Rom., vi., 16. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.—2 Cor., x., 15. He that abideth in ... Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.—2 John, 9. He that hath the Son hath life.—i John, v., 12....« less