Now these recapitulations imperfectly express my meaning when I ask you to "Stand fast in the Lord." The end of a year is a time when a register of results is justifiable, and an occasion for a fresh start is recognized. I ask you to make a resolution that you will be spiritually self-supporting, and independent of external aid, and that, whether the pupil-teacher to whom you have become accustomed is in the flesh or out of it, you will "Stand fast in the Lord," for his sake as well as your own. "We live, if ye stand fast." It is so, it must be so, for the test of a teacher is the perseverance of the taught. To fall away from a great principle because the temporary enunciator of that principle is removed, is to condemn that enunciator as a failure, and perhaps to send him to his account without his golden sheaves. "Ah, who shall then the Master meet And bring but withered leaves? Ah, who shall at the Saviour’s feet, Before the awful judgment seat, Lay down for golden sheaves Nothing but leaves, nothing but leaves?" In the words of Shakespeare I say, "Hereafter in a better world than this I shall desire more love and knowledge of you"; meanwhile remember, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," all the power you can possibly need is at your disposal, you need no helper to give it you, it is yours now. "O be strong, then, and brave, pure, patient, and true; The work that is yours let no other hand do. For the strength for all need is faithfully given From the fountain within you—the Kingdom of Heaven." Printed for Elliot Stock, Publisher, 7, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford * * * * * * * * *By THE VEN. ARCHDEACON WILBERFORCE* *STEPS IN SPIRITUAL GROWTH* Steps in Spiritual Growth—The Apple of God’s Eye—The Seed is the Logos—God Sleeps in the Stone—The Armour of God—Christ in you, the Hope of Glory—The Water and the Blood—Praise—Noli me Tangere—Things of Good Report—The Master-Truth of Christianity—The Wedding Garment—The Moral Sense, and the Religious Instinct. *POWER WITH GOD* A Suggested Morning Prayer—Power with God—The Father’s Demand—Judgment by the Christ Within—The Word made Flesh—The Armour of Light in the Strife of Tongues—The Meaning of a Coronation—Manifesting God—The Holy Spirit—The Holy Trinity—Cosmic Consciousness—Festival of St. Luke: The Layman’s Saints’ Day—Abba Father—Affirmations. *SERMONS PREACHED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. First Series.* Three Inspired Propositions—God’s Riddle—Does God Suffer?—The Father is greater than All—The Holy Trinity—The Holy Spirit—The Unpardonable Sin—Septuagesima—Back to Origins—Quinquagesima—The Impulse Behind Origins—Resurrection—Ascension—Paradise—Hades—The Communion of Saints—Propitiation—Diversity and Toleration—Unbinding the Word—No Wastefulness with God.