What wooing! This was the closest wooing. The fine wooing of this matchless Lover came to its superlative degree that night. Positive degree, that touch upon their feet; comparative, that talk about the board and along the road; superlative, this taking them in for a brief moment into the secrecy of His inner communion with the Father. Simplified Spelling. And this closer wooing is not over. It hasn't quit yet. That vine is still hanging out in fine view, all softly ablaze with the clear beautifying light, not of a fine Passover moon; no, the light of His _face_, His _life_, His _words_. That vine becomes for all time to every heart the pictured meaning of _abide_. And that word _abide_ gives the whole of the true life. We say _Christian_ life, and rightly. I like to say also, the true, the natural, life. Any other is abnormal, unnatural, untrue. I might say, "of the higher Christian life," following the common usage of these latter days. I still prefer to say _true_ life. Higher means that there is a lower life. And that this lower is reckoned Christian, too. That is the bother, the cheapening of things; we _call_ a thing Christian which is less than the thing it is called. Some of us need to go to school, and to sit down in the lower classes where spelling is taught. We can spell _believe_ in the common way with seven letters. We must learn to spell it with four letters--l-o-v-e. We need to learn to spell _love_ with a _b_ and a _y_--o-b-e-y. We need to learn to spell obey with five letters a-b-i-d-e. We need to find that _abide_ is spelled best with four letters o-b-e-y. We need to learn this simplified spelling a bit, then _all_ will become simplified, living, loving, witnessing, praying, winning, singing with joy over the results of our new spelling in the syllables of daily life. Blessed Master, we would come to school to Thee to-day. Please let us start down in the spelling class. And teach us, Thou Thyself teach us. But the vine--let us make that the central picture on the wall, with the Master in the picture pointing to the vine. And under the picture the one word _abide_. Then the whole story is in easy shape to help, pictured before our eyes. Abide--that is _Jesus walking around in your shoes_, looking out through your eyes, touching in your hand, speaking through your lips and your presence. He is _free_ to; that's _your_ side of it. He's unhindered. He _does_ it; that's _His_ side of it. Look up at the picture on the wall. The whole vine is in the fruit, is it not? The whole of the fruit is in the vine, is it not? That's abiding. The whole of Jesus will be in you as you go about your daily common task, singing. The whole of you is in Jesus as everything simple and great, is done _to please Him_, singing as you do it.