Excerpt from The Hope of His Calling: Or the Anointed Life The experience of spiritual people is identical except in degree. There is, in fact, but one highway of holiness, but it has many mile boards, and men have made many side tracks about it. The Christian life from alpha to omega is a given life - a life from God - and it is exactly the same in every one, so far as the experiences involved in it are concerned. It has a beginning, and ordinarily a long line of development. Jesus' life - the substance of spiritual life - is a distinctive and perfectly defined thing in the world of spiritual entities. If we walk "even as He walked," we must of necessity walk as each other walks. If we walk "in His steps," our feet must all alike press the same footprints. Now, we may tramp around a great deal, and make many tracks of our own in getting to and trying to follow this life, but none of these side tracks are of course any part of the divine life in us. If in every instance the servant is to be "as his master," then the various servants must in that respect be alike themselves, and in that respect only are they truly Christian. Christian experience therefore is, and ever has been, an identical experience in all its details. The way from a "babe in Christ" to a full grown man in Christ, is a way that has undergone no changes in all the ages. It has no forks, nor high cuts, nor parallels. It is one way - the "straight and narrow way," so straight and narrow that his feet who travels it must fall successively in the footprints of Jesus, and of all who have followed Him in the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.