“But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, arechanged into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of theLord.”--2 COR. iii. 18 (Revised Version).I suppose there is almost no one who would deny, if it were put to him, that thegreatest possible attainment a man can make in this world is likeness to The LordJesus Christ. Certainly no one would deny that there is nothing but character thatwe can carry out of life with us, and that our prospect of good in any future life willcertainly vary with the resemblance of our character to that of Jesus Christ, which isto rule the whole future. We all admit that; but almost every one of us offers tohimself some apology for not being like Christ, and has scarcely any clear reality ofaim of becoming like Him. Why, we say to ourselves, or we say in our practice, it isreally impossible in a world such as ours is to become perfectly holy. One or twomen in a century may become great saints; given a certain natural disposition andgiven exceptionally favouring circumstances, men may become saintly;