•     THE  PRESENT  AMERICAN  PULPIT  231

Once  it  has  been  done :  in  Galilee.  The  ideal  and  the
real  met  in  Jesus.  He  could  say,  Follow  me.  Be  ye
therefore  perfect,  he  said  to  the  men  about  him.
Looking  unto  Jesus,  wrote  the  Apostle."

We  cannot  mistake  the  suggestive,  vital,  virile  way
that  Dr.  Parkhurst  lays  hold  of  the  truth  of  the  Gos-
pel and  of  human  life  and  shows  their  exact  and  so
divine  fitness  to  each  other.
Here  is  a  passage  on  **  The  Moral  Conflict,"  urging
the  fact  of  God  indwelling  as  a  motive  to  endeavor:

**  The  task  is  still  hard,  and  we  have  to  struggle
and  fight,  and  so  often  to  fight  alone  with  no  one  else
to  see,  in  our  little  secret  obscurities,  in  our  little  se-
cret dwelling-places,  with  no  one  else  to  know  how
hard  it  is,  no  one  else  to  help  and  cheer  us  on  and
applaud  us.  Yet  we  see  now  and  know  what  that
treasure  is  which  we  are  fighting  for:  and  the  evil
desire  ungranted  and  the  evil  word  unspoken  and  the
self-indulgence  restrained  and  the  passionate  speech
suppressed  and  the  lust  of  the  flesh  denied,  the  cause
good  and  right,  that  seems  so  hopeless,  helped  —  it  is
God;  it  is  the  gold,  men  and  women,  separated  from,
purified,  refined,  coming  out  of  the  dirt,  or  out  of  the
hard  and  rocky  quartz,  and  making  us  very  rich.
