MR. COTTER MORISON AND THE CHRISTIAN SAINTS.
[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "131110TATOE."1
Stu,—Surely the true answer to Mr. Cotter Morison is that the essence of Christian sanctity is obedience, not achievement. All are " called to be saints," exhorted to " be perfect," but none are required to be eminent except those " to whom it is given."
We cannot think of a divine command as requiring what is impossible. There must be an absolutely right course open to each individual at every moment. But the perfect obedience which leads the "moral genius" to eminence, leads the less gifted humbly and faithfully to occupy a lower place.
Is it not the special privilege of Christian discipleship to lose sight of individual " ideals " and human " standards " in faith- fully following the Living Voice which is known to the disciple as the shepherd's voice is known to the sheep,—known, that is,
through the habit of obedience am, Sir, &c., Q.
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