Note
Have you looked carefully at the frontispiece? The stem of a vine, with two branches pruned down to within an inch of the stem, waiting for the spring to come and fill them. On each there are two or three buds, which in due time will send out their shoots, each with one or more bunches of grapes. These branches are cleansed and abiding—waiting till the vine fill them with its sap. Beautiful type of the believer, in utter emptiness, resting, abiding in Christ, waiting the blessed inflow of the Spirit, to enable him to bring forth fruit. Study the little picture till you have learnt its lesson. Receive into yourself what the Vine has to give! it is then easy to give it out as fruit. Cleansed and abiding: this is the place of certain blessing and much fruit.