<p>PREFACE</p> <p>These addresses on Obedience are issued with the very fervent prayer that it may please our gracious Father to use them for the manual and strengthening of the young men and women, on whose obedience and devotion so much depends for the Church and the world. To all of them who see this I send my loving greeting. The God of all grace bless them abundantly!<br />It often happens after a Conference, or even after writing a ebook, that it is as if one only then begins to see the meaning and importance of the truth with which one has been occupied. So I do indeed feel as if I had utterly failed in grasping or expounding the spiritual character, the altogether indispensable necessity, the divine and actual possibility, the inconceivable blessedness of a life of true and entire obedience to our Father in heaven. Let me, therefore, just in a few sentences gather up the main points which have come home to myself with special power, and ask every reader at starting to take note of them as<br />SOME OF THE CHIEF LESSONS<br />to be learnt in Christ's school of obedience.<br />The Father in heaven asks, and requires, and actually expects, that every child of His yield Him whole-hearted and entire obedience, day by day, and all the day.<br />To enable His child to do this, He has made a most abundant and altogether sufficient provision in the promise of the New Covenant, and in the gift of His Son and Spirit.<br />This provision can alone, but can most certainly, be