40 True Nobles and Heroes.

and we are told that “He who ruleth his
spirit, is greater than he that taketh a city.”
But how is this to be done? We must first
be conquered, and become one with Him ‘‘who
spoiled principalities and powers ;” we must
allow Jesus to take our hearts, and wills,
and desires, and sins, and then we shall be
made ‘more than conquerors through Him
that loved us,” we must in Christ “be
crucified to the world—dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God,” and be able to
rejoice in the weary, daily struggle against
sin and Satan, because we do not fight
single-handed or hopelessly, for we have the
promise, ‘‘My grace is sufficient for thee,
for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
The glories of the noblest of earth’s victories
shall fade away, when the ‘“‘kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord
and of His Christ,” while those who have
conquered self will then have received from
His hands—the Victor’s Palm. And just
as it is in those cases I have mentioned, so
is it if we meet the last enemy; for those
who trust simply in the blood of the atone-
ment, to grapple with and overcome him,