Kept For The Master's Use

"CHAPTER I. Our Lives kept for Jesus. ‘Keep my life, that it may be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.’ Many a heart has echoed the little song: ‘Take my life, and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee!’ And yet those echoes have not been, in every case and at all times, so clear, and full, and firm, so continuously glad as we would wish, and perhaps expected. Some of us have said: ‘I launch me forth upon a sea Of boundless love and tenderness;’ and after a little we have found, or fancied, that there is a hidden leak in our barque, and though we are doubtless still afloat, yet we are not sailing [...]".