Herbert W. Lathe, Souvenir Pamphlet: Being Six Sermons Preached in the First Congregational Church, Pasadena, California (Los Angeles: Reality Publishing Company, 1902), sermon VI, “The Life Triumphant,” p. 82

At its very centre, the life triumphant is right with God. It is “in Christ Jesus”; and so it is a redeemed life. The sense of triumph in life begins just there, when we are conscious that the guilt of sin is blotted out…