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By Rev. Andrew Murray

Author of 'With Christ in the School of Ptayer," etc.

'That Christ may dwell In your hearts by faith"
Eph. Hi. 17

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FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

CHICAGO NEW YORK TORONTO

Publishers of Evangelical Literature

Copyrighted, 1896, by Fleming H. Reveli Company

The following papers were In substance delivered by the author in a series of addresses at the Northfieid Conference of 1895. but later rewritten and revised by him for this permanent and authorized publication.

CARNAL CHRISTIANS.

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A Corinthians j: i.And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal.

THE apostle here speaks of two stages of the Christian life, two types of Christians: "I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ." They were Christians, in Christ, but instead of being spiritual Christians, they were carnal. "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet are ye able, for ye are yet carnal." Here is that word a second time. "For whereas"— this is the proof —"there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal?" Four times the apostle uses that word carnal. In the wisdom which the Holy Ghost gives him, Paul feels: — I can not write to these Corinthian Christians unless I know their state, and unless I tell them of it. If I give spiritual

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