Some Fruits of Holiness

When souls get justified, they get all of the fruits of the Spirit. So when they get sanctified they get the inbred sin taken out, and a double supply of the same kind of fruit they have.

1. The first fruit is love. Holy people love God with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength. There is nothing in their heart that opposes the will of God, or desires to rob Him of any of His glory by contributing any good thing done to self, but renders it all to Him who is worthy of all praise.

2. They love their neighbors as themselves. They bear a tender love to all mankind, both friend and foe, of all colors, all denominations, and all classes. This love makes its possessor equal to all, and a servant to all. They cannot hold any grudge against any one, no matter what they may do to them, any more than they can take fire into their bosoms. They are a friend to all, and an enemy to none. Nothing fills their hearts from January to January but pure love to God, and pure love to all the children of men.

3. They are simple people; not aspiring to be great or prominent in the world, but seeking rather to be holy than to be wise. They are simple in their dress, in furnishing their homes, in spending their money, in dressing their children. Yea, they set the fashions rather than be led by them. 0, they walk on earth, but live in heaven! "They are dead to the world and its applause, to all the customs, fashions," etc.

4. They are meek and lowly people. If a hundred of them should dwell under one roof, you would hear no quarreling, no loud, boisterous talk, no harsh, sarcastic words, no scolding, no complaining. They are lowly, meek and mild, at all times. They represent their lowly Master, "Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again."

5. They are gentle as lambs. They never resent, or retaliate. They are cleansed from all stubbornness, self-will or hard-headedness. They are easy to be entreated, easy to be convinced, and take reproof gently and lamblike.

6. They are a happy people. They "rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks." They are happy when they have plenty, happy when they have nothing. Happy when things go their way, and when they do not. Happy in health and happy in sickness. Why Because they have chosen God for their portion, both for time and eternity. They can sing-

"Earth is a scale to heaven for me,

Sense points out the road;

The creature all leads to thee,

And all I taste is God."