— edited from A Treatise on Divine Union (1851) Part 7, Chapter 1.
A blog drawn from the writings of Thomas Cogswell Upham (1799-1872).
The life of those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High may be called a Hidden Life, because the animating principle, the vital or operative element, is not so much in itself as in another. It is a life grafted into another life. It is the life of the soul, incorporated into the life of Christ; and in such a way, that, while it has a distinct vitality, it has so very much in the sense, in which the branch of a tree may be said to have a distinct vitality from the root.
Friday, July 10, 2015
Christ is Our Example
In the matter of union with God in the great work of the world's redemption, "Christ is our example.” Those
who are now in the world, called upon to realize its situation, and to
labor for its restoration, can be in union with God only so far as they
have Christ's spirit. There is a sense in which it can be said, with
great truth, that holy souls are the perpetuation of Christ. We are
called upon, therefore, to be just what Christ would be if he were now
living. If he were now on earth, it is certain that he would live, and
labor, and suffer for the completion of that great object for which he
lived and suffered so many centuries ago. In the same spirit of
meekness, in the same fixedness of purpose, in the same readiness to act
and to endure, he would say now, as then, "I come to do thy will.”
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