Ques.:What does salt signify in scripture? "Salt is good:but if the salt have lost his savor,
wherewith shall it be seasoned? . . . (Luke 14:34,35).

Ans. "Salt" is grace in spiritual energy. That is, the saints being witnesses in the world of the
power of holy love instead of selfishness. Salt is the consecrating principle of grace. If that is
gone, what is to preserve? Salt is rather grace in the aspect of holy separateness unto God than in
that of kindness and meekness, though, of course, these are also inseparable from grace. If the salt
has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? If I have meat without salt I can salt it, but if there
is no saltiness in salt, what can I do? What a character we have here of an unspiritual church or
an unspiritual saint! Like the vine which represented Israel, good for nothing at all but to dishonor
the Lord, its owner, and be destroyed. Mercy, it is true, may recover us, but as saints we should
have the savor of Christ. Whatever enfeebles attachment to Christ destroys power. It is not gross
sin that does it, which, of course, will be met and judged, but it is the little things of everyday life
which are apt to be chosen before Christ. When the world creeps in the salt has lost its savor, and
we show that a rejected Christ has little power in our eyes.

The Lord keep us in the path with Christ, where all is bright and blessed. If the film of this world
has been drawn over our spiritual vision, hiding Christ from us, He alone can remove it.

FRAGMENT
Oh, give us hearts to love like Thine, and in Thy brethren see
That gentleness and grace that spring from union, Lord, with Thee.