What is God's purpose for me? What must I do that I may realize this glorious purpose?
These are questions we've all doubtless asked before, and likely many times. This book seeks to answer these questions, detailing exactly what God's will is for you personally and His church collectively.
This edition contains an Active Table of Contents.
Chapter I – The Vision Chapter II – Told by the "Christ of God" Chapter III – Seen by Artists and Seers Chapter IV — Sought By Scientists and Philosophers Chapter V — The High Water Mark of Religion Chapter VI — The Holy Communion Realized Chapter VII — The Last Race Enemy Ours Chapter VIII — "Paradise Regained" Chapter IX — "The Preaching of the Cross," Clarified and Glorified Chapter X — The Triumph of the Trinity Chapter XI — "In the Likeness of His Resurrection" Chapter XII — The Return of Christ Chapter XIII — The Tap-root of Sin Removed Chapter XIV — How the Light Came and the Fire Fell Chapter XV — The Triumphant Truth Practically Applied Chapter XVI — The Simple Summary of "God's Perfect Whole"
“Man was not made to die … but to be ‘clothed upon’ with glory that cometh down from on high.”
A seminal work in modern Christian mysticism, published in 1913. Riale argues that the hereafter begins now for the believer and that not only is sin forgiven, but sickness and death defeated. (Riale died in 1935.)
“The second coming of the Lord has already begun in me the moment I have accepted by faith that by his indwelling and outworking Spirit I will, by God’s Spirit, be over all the great race foes forever triumphant.”
Many contemporary Christian movements hark back to Riale’s thesis, if not his writings. Like moderns, he quoted from then-contemporary secular works to buttress his arguments.
“The Spirit of life that raised Christ from the dead swells in us to life us into the same almighty triumph also.”
Quibble: Understandable that Riale quotes from the Authorized Version of the Bible, less excusable that he occasionally writes as if he lived in the seventeenth century.
“All that I desire I shall have. God withholds nothing from the child of his likeness and the child of his love.”