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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, by Various
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+Title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
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+Author: Various
+
+Editor: Dwight L. Moody
+
+Release Date: September 2, 2011 [EBook #37292]
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+Language: English
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+THOUGHTS
+
+FOR
+
+THE QUIET HOUR
+
+Edited By D. L. Moody
+
+[Illustration]
+
+        Fleming H. Revell Company
+        CHICAGO : NEW YORK : TORONTO
+        _Publishers of Evangelical Literature_
+
+
+
+
+        Copyrighted 1900
+        by
+        Fleming H. Revell Company
+
+
+
+
+TO THE READER
+
+
+One of the brightest signs of the times is that many Christians in our
+Young People's Societies and churches are observing a "Quiet Hour"
+daily. In this age of rush and activity we need some special call to go
+apart and be alone with God for a part of each day. Any man or woman who
+does this faithfully and earnestly cannot be more than twenty-four hours
+away from God.
+
+The selections given in this volume were first published in the monthly
+issues of the "_Record of Christian Work_," and were found very helpful
+for devotional purposes. They are also a mine of thoughts, to light up
+the verses quoted. Being of permanent value, it has been thought
+desirable to transfer them from the pages of the magazine to this
+permanent volume.
+
+May they have a helpful ministry, leading many into closer communion
+with God!
+
+                              [Illustration: D. L. Moody]
+
+
+
+
+Index of Texts Quoted in This Volume.
+
+        =Genesis=
+         1: 4,         34
+         2: 7,         36
+         3: 3,         71
+            9,          5
+           24,        109
+         4:15,        105
+         6: 8,        128
+        12: 1,         18
+        13:12,        124
+           15,         37
+        16: 9,         94
+        18:17,         96
+        25: 8,     18, 28
+           11,         68
+        28:12,        102
+           15,         60
+           16,    69, 102
+        32: 1,         24
+           32,        119
+        33: 1,        111
+
+
+        =Exodus=
+         2: 3,         32
+         4:13,         32
+        14:13,          6
+           19,        112
+        20: 3,         81
+        24:18,         11
+        28: 2,         12
+        33:14,         88
+        34: 2,         25
+
+
+        =Numbers=
+         9:23,         20
+        11:14,         51
+        13:27,         38
+           28,         38
+
+
+        =Deuteronomy=
+         1: 2,         26
+         4: 1,        102
+        18:14,         80
+        33:25,     63, 69
+
+
+        =Joshua=
+         4:21,         20
+         5:14,         26
+        23:11,          7
+        24:15,        114
+
+
+        =Judges=
+         6:14,         78
+         8:18,         38
+
+
+        =I. Samuel=
+         1:10,        128
+           13,        128
+           27,         50
+           28,         50
+         2: 3,         23
+        12:24,         43
+
+
+        =II. Samuel=
+         5:19,         57
+        22:36,         24
+
+
+        =I. Kings=
+         2:34,        106
+         8:12,         94
+           13,         94
+        17: 3,         52
+           10,        113
+
+
+        =II. Kings=
+         6:17,         11
+        10: 5,         74
+        25:30,    39, 113
+
+
+        =I. Chronicles=
+         4:23,         92
+
+
+        =Job=
+         5:17,        100
+
+
+        =Psalms=
+         5: 3,         12
+        16:11,        110
+        19:12,    74, 124
+        21: 4,         90
+        23: 2,         38
+            3,         31
+        25: 4,         12
+        32: 8,         93
+        34: 1,         51
+           19,          6
+        39: 3,         52
+        55:22,         58
+        62: 5,         40
+        63: 1,         45
+        65: 3,        112
+        78:14,         91
+        90: 1,        114
+           12,         96
+        91: 3,        104
+            9,        119
+           11,         98
+        100:2,         95
+        103:2,        122
+            4,        122
+           19,         53
+        118:14,         6
+        119:117,       72
+        134: 1,        17
+             3,        17
+        145: 2,         9
+            16,        17
+
+
+        =Proverbs=
+         4:18,         34
+           23,         53
+        11:25,        121
+        13:25,         47
+        16:32,         50
+        27: 1,         21
+
+
+        =Ecclesiastes=
+        9:10,          78
+
+
+        =Song of Solomon=
+         1: 5,         57
+            6,         37
+         2: 3,         13
+           15,         35
+         3: 1,         30
+         4:16,         70
+         7:10,         57
+
+
+        =Isaiah=
+         6: 5,         51
+        30:18,         19
+        32:20,         72
+        40: 8,        104
+           31,     10, 31,
+                   42, 80
+        41:13,         43
+           14,         21
+        43: 2,        112
+        48:10,         94
+        49: 5,         14
+           23,         44
+        50:10,        105
+        56: 2,         72
+
+
+        =Jeremiah=
+        18: 4,        113
+        22:21,        104
+
+
+        =Ezekiel=
+        12: 8,         36
+        34:26,         85
+        36:37,         88
+        37: 3,        101
+
+
+        =Daniel=
+         5: 1,        122
+         6:20,         15
+         9: 9,         89
+        10: 8,        109
+
+
+        =Hosea=
+         6: 3,         18
+
+
+        =Jonah=
+         1:11,        125
+
+
+        =Micah=
+         7: 8,        100
+
+
+        =Zechariah=
+         4:10,    64, 116
+        13: 1,         56
+
+
+        =Malachi=
+         3: 6,         85
+           18,        123
+
+
+        =Matthew=
+         2:10,        100
+           13,        106
+         5:14,     45, 55
+           16,        106
+           45,         35
+           48,         65
+         6: 6,         95
+           32,         75
+           33,         30
+         8: 6,         72
+        10: 8,         68
+           42,         52
+        14:14,         81
+           23,         81
+           22,         59
+        15:28,         44
+        20:18,         92
+           28,         93
+        25:21,         59
+           26,         59
+           24-26,      44
+        26:39,         15
+           40,         40
+        27:32,         54
+        28:16,        107
+           18,        107
+           19,        107
+           20,         41
+
+
+        =Mark=
+         2: 3,        122
+         5:36,         99
+         6:41,        123
+         7:34,         46
+        10:17,        120
+        13:34,         22
+        14:41,         65
+           50,        121
+
+
+        =Luke=
+         2:10,        107
+           13,        126
+           14,        126
+         5: 3,         77
+            5,         85
+         7: 5,         19
+        10:29,        115
+           39,         98
+        14:10,        126
+           11,         49
+           27,         62
+        16:10,          8
+        24:16,         31
+           18,         13
+           31,         32
+           34,         47
+
+
+        =John=
+         1: 4,         45
+           36,         71
+           37,         71
+           45,         23
+           46,         23
+         2:3-5,    48, 76
+           11,         91
+         3: 8,         23
+         4: 6,         67
+            8,         67
+           39,         67
+           34,     40, 70
+         6:57,         29
+         8: 9,        110
+           29,         27
+        11: 9,         14
+           21-24,      58
+        12: 4,         68
+            6,          6
+        20:21,         56
+           25,        124
+           27,        124
+           29,          9
+        21: 3,         37
+           10,         22
+           12,         101
+
+
+        =Acts=
+         1: 3,         67
+            4,     61, 97
+            8,     28, 60
+         2: 1,         61
+            4,         61
+           41,         47
+         4:10,         64
+           13,     79, 99
+         6: 5,         20
+         8:21,         64
+        19:38,         94
+        11:26,        123
+        13: 2,         64
+           47,         60
+        14:8-10,       57
+        17: 6,    63, 119
+        20:19,         82
+           24,        119
+           28,         90
+        27:23-25,      42
+
+
+        =Romans=
+         5: 3,         46
+         6: 4,         15
+         7:11,         75
+         8:28,     11, 31
+        13:11,         89
+        15:13,         90
+
+
+        =I. Corinthians=
+         1: 7,         30
+           28,         95
+         3:10,         69
+         7:32,         87
+        10:12,         76
+        11: 1,         82
+        13:13,        124
+        15:58,         46
+
+
+        =II. Corinthians=
+        1:21,       116
+          22,       116
+        13:5,       114
+           17,       65
+
+
+        =Galatians=
+         1: 4,       55
+         2:20,  96, 103,
+                    115
+         3:27,       58
+         6: 2,   33, 39
+            7,       25
+            9,       88
+           14,      127
+
+
+        =Ephesians=
+         1:13,         21
+           17,        109
+           18,        109
+         2:10,     78, 84
+           12,        120
+           21,         16
+         4:15,        113
+          5:8,      7, 77
+           15,         32
+
+
+        =Philippians=
+         1:21,         27
+         2:12      39, 41,
+                       73
+           13,     39, 41,
+                       73
+         3:13,         24
+           14,         24
+         4: 6,         42
+           12,         48
+           13,     55, 63
+           19,          8
+
+
+        =Colossians=
+         1:27,         96
+         3: 2,     46, 78
+            3,         75
+           11,         16
+           15,         87
+           16,        118
+           17,         54
+           24,         87
+         4: 2,     16, 76,
+                      126
+
+
+        =I. Thessalonians=
+         5: 6,         66
+            8,        103
+           19,         27
+           24,        118
+
+
+        =I. Timothy=
+         1:15,         73
+           17,         73
+
+
+        =II. Timothy=
+         1:12,         61
+         2: 3,         62
+           12,     53, 86
+           15,         60
+
+
+        =Hebrews=
+         4: 9,         13
+         6:12,        125
+           19,        128
+         7:25,        127
+        10: 5,         27
+           19,         41
+           22,         41
+           32,    23, 118
+        11: 7,         83
+            8,         22
+        12: 1,         79
+            2,         79
+            2,         14
+            6,    47, 107,
+                      117
+        13: 5,        118
+
+
+        =James=
+         1: 2,          8
+            4,         72
+           23,        125
+           25,        125
+         4: 4,        127
+           14,   123, 125
+
+
+        =I. Peter=
+         1:16,         96
+           21,        121
+           23,         86
+         2: 5,         20
+           21,         81
+         5: 5,        111
+
+
+        =II. Peter=
+         1: 5,         70
+           21,        121
+         3:18,     44, 74
+
+
+        =I. John=
+         1: 7,         48
+            9,         26
+         2: 6,         18
+           15,     17, 87
+         3: 2,         91
+         4:14,         88
+           16,     61, 98
+           18,         42
+         5: 4,         97
+
+
+        =Jude=
+           21,         28
+
+
+        =Revelation=
+         1:10,       117
+           11,       117
+           17,        66
+         2:10,       105
+         3:19,        20
+         4: 8,        30
+         7: 9,        34
+        22:12,         5
+           14,       109
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JANUARY]
+
+
+=January 1st.=
+
+     _Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself . . .
+     to me in the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2._
+
+My Father, I am coming. Nothing on the mean plain shall keep me away
+from the holy heights. Help me to climb fast, and keep Thou my foot,
+lest it fall upon the hard rock! At Thy bidding I come, so Thou wilt not
+mock my heart. Bring with Thee honey from heaven, yea, milk and wine,
+and oil for my soul's good, and stay the sun in his course, or the time
+will be too short in which to look upon Thy face, and to hear Thy gentle
+voice.
+
+Morning on the mount! It will make me strong and glad all the rest of
+the day so well begun.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=January 2nd.=
+
+      _My reward is with me. Rev. xxii. 12._
+
+We are to be rewarded, not only for work done, but for burdens borne,
+and I am not sure but that the brightest rewards will be for those who
+have borne burdens without murmuring. On that day He will take the lily,
+that has been growing so long among thorns, and lift it up to be the
+glory and wonder of all the universe; and the fragrance of that lily
+will draw forth ineffable praises from all the hosts of heaven.--_Andrew
+Bonar._
+
+
+=January 3rd.=
+
+      _Where art thou? Gen. iii. 9._
+
+Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do
+His own blessed work in His own way? Oh, let me say to thee this
+morning, "The Lord hath need of thee." It may seem to be only a little
+thing He has for you to do, but it is an important one. He has "need of
+thee." Turn not thy back upon Him; put not thyself out of the way of
+being employed by Him; do not begin by laying down laws for thyself as
+to what thou wilt do and what thou wilt not do; but cry out from the
+very depth of thy heart, "Here am I, send me,"--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=January 4th.=
+
+      _Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the
+      Lord delivereth him out of them all. Psa. xxxiv. 19._
+
+All the afflictions of the righteous open out into something glorious.
+The prisoner is not merely delivered, but he finds an angel waiting for
+him at the door. And with every deliverance comes a specific blessing.
+One angel is named faith; another, love; another, joy; another,
+longsuffering; another, gentleness; another, goodness; another,
+meekness; another, temperance; another, peace. Each of these graces
+says, "We have come out of great tribulation."--_G. Bowen._
+
+
+=January 5th.=
+
+      _The Lord is my . . . song. Psa. cxviii. 14._
+
+Let us think of God Himself becoming our song. This is the fulness and
+perfection of knowing God: so to know Him that He Himself becomes our
+delight; so to know Him that praise is sweetest, and fullest, and
+freshest, and gladdest, when we sing of Him. He who has learned this
+blessed secret carries the golden key of heaven--nay, he hath fetched
+heaven down to earth, and need not envy the angels now.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=January 6th.=
+
+      _Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of
+      the Lord. Ex. xiv. 13._
+
+Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound
+difficulty--leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape;
+contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had
+it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You
+may be thus involved at this very hour. It does seem perplexing and very
+serious to the last degree; but it is perfectly right. The issue will
+more than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for
+the display of His almighty grace and power. He will not only deliver
+you, but in doing so He will give you a lesson that you will never
+forget; and to which, in many a psalm and song in after days, you will
+revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just
+as He has.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=January 7th.=
+
+      _Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
+      light. Eph. v. 8._
+
+The influence we exert in the world is created by our relationship to
+Jesus Christ; and our relationship to Jesus Christ is revealed by our
+influence.--_Selected._
+
+
+=January 8th.=
+
+      _Take good heed therefore unto your souls. Josh.
+      xxiii. 11._ (_Margin._)
+
+Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz
+and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till
+taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies
+buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated
+unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a
+divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian
+is, so to speak, the circulating medium of Christ, the coin of the realm
+by whom the great transactions of mercy and grace to a lost world are
+carried on. As the currency stands for the gold, so does the Christian
+stand for Christ, representing His good and acceptable will.--_A. J.
+Gordon._
+
+
+=January 9th.=
+
+      _He that is faithful in that which is least, is
+      faithful also in much. Luke xvi. 10._
+
+The least action of life can be as surely done from the loftiest motive
+as the highest and noblest. Faithfulness measures acts as God measures
+them. True conscientiousness deals with our duties as God deals with
+them. Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong
+is wrong, whatever sized type they be printed in. "Large" and "small"
+are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. It knows only two
+words--right and wrong.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=January 10th.=
+
+      _My God shall supply all your need according to His
+      riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phil. iv. 19._
+
+What a source--"God"! What a standard--"His riches in glory"! What a
+channel--"Christ Jesus"! It is your sweet privilege to place _all your
+need_ over against _His riches_, and lose sight of the former in the
+presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you,
+in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless
+simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to look to a
+creature-stream, or lean on a creature-prop.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=January 11th.=
+
+      _Count it all joy when ye fall into divers
+      temptations. James i. 2._
+
+We cannot be losers by trusting God, for He is honored by faith, and
+most honored when faith discerns His love and truth behind a thick cloud
+of His ways and providence. Happy those who are thus tried! Let us only
+be clear of unbelief and a guilty conscience. We shall hide ourselves in
+the rock and pavilion of the Lord, sheltered beneath the wings of
+everlasting love till all calamities be overpast.--_Selected._
+
+
+=January 12th.=
+
+      _Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
+      believed. John xx. 29._
+
+The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the unseen. . . . No
+doubt, in Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen; but so is that
+of yonder tower that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over
+which it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the rolling
+billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable, lies the solid
+rock on which it stands secure; and when the hurricane roars above, and
+breakers roar below, I could go calmly to sleep in that lone sea tower.
+Founded on a rock, and safer than the proudest palace that stands on the
+sandy, surf-beaten shore, it cannot be moved. Still less the Rock of
+Ages! Who trusts in that is fit for death, prepared for judgment, ready
+for the last day's sounding trumpet, since, "The Lord redeemeth the soul
+of His servants, and none of them that trust in Him shall be
+desolate."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=January 13th.=
+
+      _Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much
+      fruit. John xv. 8._
+
+What a possibility, what an inspiration, that we can enhance the glory
+of "our Father"! Our hearts leap at the thought.
+
+How can this be done? By bearing "leaves,"--a _profession_ of love for
+Him? No. By bearing _some_ fruit? No. "That ye bear _much_ fruit." In
+the abundance of the yield is the joy, the glory of the husbandman. We
+should, therefore, aim to be extraordinary, "hundred-fold" Christians,
+satisfied with none but the largest yield. Our lives should be packed
+with good deeds. Then at harvest time we can say, "Father, I have
+glorified Thee on the earth!"--_W. Jennings._
+
+
+=January 14th.=
+
+      _Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy
+      name for ever and ever. Psa. cxlv. 2._
+
+There is a very beautiful device by which the Japanese are accustomed to
+express their wishes for their friends. It is the figure of a drum in
+which the birds have built their nest. The story told of it is that once
+there lived a good king, so anxiously concerned for the welfare of his
+people that at the palace gate he set a drum, and whoever had any wrong
+to be redressed or any want, should beat the drum, and at once, by day
+or night, the king would grant the suppliant an audience and relief. But
+throughout the land there reigned such prosperity and contentment that
+none needed to appeal for anything, and the birds built their nests
+within it and filled it with the music of their song.
+
+Such gracious access is granted to us even by the King of Heaven, and
+day and night His ready hearing and His help are within the reach of all
+that come to Him; but of all men most blessed are they who have found on
+earth a blessedness in which all want is forgotten, and trust rests so
+assured of safety in the Father's care that prayer gives place to
+ceaseless praise. They _rejoice in the Lord alway_.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=January 15th.=
+
+      _They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
+      run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not
+      faint.--Isa. xl. 31._
+
+This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being--to be able to _walk_ with
+God! Flight belongs to the young soul; it is the _romance_ of religion.
+To run without weariness belongs to the _lofty_ soul; it is the _beauty_
+of religion. But to walk and not faint belongs to the _perfect_ soul; it
+is the _power_ of religion.
+
+Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of men? Canst
+thou touch the vile and polluted ones of earth and retain thy garments
+pure? Canst thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself
+undefiled? _Then_ thou hast surpassed the flight of the eagle!--_George
+Matheson._
+
+
+=January 16th.=
+
+      _And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty
+      nights. Ex. xxiv. 18._
+
+The life of fellowship with God cannot be built up in a day. It begins
+with the habitual reference of all to Him, hour by hour, as Moses did in
+Egypt. But it moves on to more and longer periods of communion; and it
+finds its consummation and bliss in days and nights of intercession and
+waiting and holy intercourse.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=January 17th.=
+
+      _Elisha said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he
+      may see. 2 Kings vi. 17._
+
+This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another,
+"Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as
+well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots,
+waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are
+thus opened, we shall see in all the events of life, whether great or
+small, whether joyful or sad, a "chariot" for our souls. Everything that
+comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on
+the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a Juggernaut car to crush
+us into misery or despair if we so consider them. It lies with each of
+us to choose which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what these
+events are, but upon how we take them. If we lie down under them, and
+let them roll over us and crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if
+we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us
+triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of
+God.--_Smith._
+
+
+=January 18th.=
+
+      _All things work together for good to them that love
+      God. Rom. viii. 28._
+
+In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for the
+believer's good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them, AND ONE
+BESIDE.--_George Müller._
+
+
+=January 19th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron. Ex. xxviii.
+      2._
+
+Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness?
+We have garments of praise; we are clothed with the Lord Jesus. And have
+we no ornaments? The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in the
+sight of God, of great price. And have we no golden bells? We have the
+golden bells of holy actions. Our words are bells, our actions are
+bells, our purposes are bells. Whenever we move, our motion is thus
+understood to be a motion towards holy places, holy deeds, holy
+character.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=January 20th.=
+
+      _My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in
+      the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and
+      will look up. Psa v. 3._
+
+The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with
+prayer. It is one end of the thread on which the day's actions are
+strung, and should be well knotted with devotion. If we felt more the
+majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings. He who rushes
+from his bed to his business and waiteth not to worship is as foolish as
+though he had not put on his clothes, or cleansed his face, and as
+unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor. Be it ours
+to bathe in the softly flowing river of communion with God, before the
+heat of the wilderness and the burden of the way begin to oppress
+us.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=January 21st.=
+
+      _Show me Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy paths. Psa.
+      xxv. 4._
+
+There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which
+alone God can accompany him.--_Denham Smith._
+
+
+=January 22nd.=
+
+      _There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
+      God. Heb. iv. 9._
+
+How sweet the music of this first heavenly chime floating across the
+waters of death from the towers of the New Jerusalem. Pilgrim, faint
+under thy long and arduous pilgrimage, hear it! It is REST. Soldier,
+carrying still upon thee blood and dust of battle, hear it! It is REST.
+Voyager, tossed on the waves of sin and sorrow, driven hither and
+thither on the world's heaving ocean of vicissitude, hear it! The haven
+is in sight; the very waves that are breaking on thee seem to
+murmur--"_So He giveth His beloved_ REST." It is the long-drawn sigh of
+existence at last answered. The toil and travail of earth's protracted
+week is at an end. The calm of its unbroken Sabbath is begun. Man, weary
+man, has found at last the long-sought-for _rest_ in the bosom of his
+God!--_Macduff._
+
+
+=January 23rd.=
+
+      _Under His shadow. Song of Sol. ii. 3._
+
+Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four pictures suggested by
+that: under the shadow of a rock in a weary plain; under the shadow of a
+tree; closer still, under the shadow of His wing; nearest and closest,
+in the shadow of His hand. Surely that hand must be the piercèd hand,
+that may oftentimes press us sorely, and yet evermore encircling,
+upholding and shadowing!
+
+
+=January 24th.=
+
+      _He made as though He would have gone further. Luke
+      xxiv. 28._
+
+Is not God always acting thus? He comes to us by His Holy Spirit as He
+did to these two disciples. He speaks to us through the preaching of the
+Gospel, through the Word of God, through the various means of grace and
+the providential circumstances of life; and having thus spoken, He makes
+as though He would go further. If the ear be opened to His voice and
+the heart to His Spirit, the prayer will then go up, "Lord, abide with
+me." But if that voice makes no impression, then He passes on, as He has
+done thousands of times, leaving the heart at each time harder than
+before, and the ear more closed to the Spirit's call.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=January 25th.=
+
+      _My God shall be my strength. Isa. xlix. 5._
+
+Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for
+tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then
+the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle.
+Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which
+has come in you by the grace of God.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=January 26th.=
+
+      _Despising the shame. Heb. xii. 2._
+
+And how is that to be done? In two ways. Go up the mountain, and the
+things in the plain will look very small; the higher you rise the more
+insignificant they will seem. Hold fellowship with God, and the
+threatening foes here will seem very, very unformidable. Another way is,
+pull up the curtain and gaze on what is behind it. The low foot-hills
+that lie at the base of some Alpine country may look high when seen from
+the plain, as long as the snowy summits are wrapped in mist; but when a
+little puff of wind comes and clears away the fog from the lofty peaks,
+nobody looks at the little green hills in front. So the world's
+hindrances and the world's difficulties and cares look very lofty till
+the cloud lifts. But when we see the great white summits, everything
+lower does not seem so very high after all. Look to Jesus, and that will
+dwarf the difficulties.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=January 27th.=
+
+      _Are there not twelve hours in the day? John xi. 9._
+
+The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in heaven, is a proof
+that some work awaits him.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=January 28th.=
+
+      _Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. Matt. xxvi. 39._
+
+There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will
+of God.--_Faber._
+
+
+=January 29th.=
+
+      _The living God. Dan. vi. 20._
+
+How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is
+just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it
+is written "_the living God_"; but in our daily life there is scarcely
+anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is
+THE LIVING GOD; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand
+years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love
+towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that He will do
+for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago,
+simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how
+therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never
+lose sight of the fact that He _is_ still and ever _will be_ THE LIVING
+GOD!--_George Müller._
+
+
+=January 30th.=
+
+      _Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into
+      death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
+      by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
+      walk in newness of life. Rom. vi. 4._
+
+That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is
+our privilege to lead; for God never gives us a call without its being a
+privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher without
+stretching out to us His hand to lift us up. Come up higher and higher
+into the realities and glories of the resurrection life, knowing that
+your life is hid with Christ in God. Shake yourself loose of every
+incumbrance, turn your back on every defilement, give yourself over
+like clay to the hands of the potter, that He may stamp upon you the
+fulness of His own resurrection glory, that you, beholding as in a
+mirror the glory of the Lord, may be changed from glory to glory as by
+the Spirit of the Lord.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=January 31st.=
+
+      _Christ is all, and in all. Col. iii. 11._
+
+        The _service_ of Christ is the _business_ of my life.
+        The _will_ of Christ is the _law_ of my life.
+        The _presence_ of Christ is the _joy_ of my life.
+        The _glory_ of Christ is the _crown_ of my life.--_Selected._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+=February 1st.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast
+thou no mercy to ask of God? Then may the Lord's mercy show thee thy
+misery. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of
+the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of
+the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=February 2nd.=
+
+      _In whom all the building, fitly framed together,
+      groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. Eph. ii. 21._
+
+The life-tabernacle is a wondrous building; there is room for workers of
+all kinds in the uprearing of its mysterious and glorious walls. If we
+cannot do the greatest work, we may do the least. Our heaven will come
+out of the realization of the fact that it was God's tabernacle we were
+building, and under God's blessing that we were working.--_Joseph
+Parker._
+
+
+=February 3rd.=
+
+      _Love not the world. 1 John ii. 15._
+
+Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of Him who gave His
+Son to die for it. Love it with the love of Him who shed His blood for
+it. Love it with the love of angels, who rejoice in its conversion. Love
+it to do it good, giving your tears to its sufferings, your pity to its
+sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your prayers to its miseries, and to
+its fields of charity, and philanthropy, and Christian piety, your
+powers and hours of labor. You cannot live without affecting it, or
+being affected by it. You will make the world better, or it will make
+you worse.
+
+God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live in the world as to
+live above it, and look beyond it; and so to love it that when you leave
+it, you may leave it better than you found it.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=February 4th.=
+
+      _Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of
+      every living thing. Psa. cxlv. 16._
+
+Desire, it is a dainty word! It were much that He should satisfy the
+_need_, the _want_; but He goeth far beyond that. Pity is moved to meet
+our need; duty may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the
+_desire_ implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and gracious knowledge
+of us, an eagerness of blessing. God is never satisfied until He has
+satisfied our desires.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=February 5th.=
+
+      _Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the
+      house of the Lord. . . . The Lord that made heaven and
+      earth bless thee out of Zion. Psa. cxxxiv. 1, 3._
+
+If I would know the love of my friend, I must see what it can do in the
+winter. So with the divine love. It is very easy for me to worship in
+the summer sunshine, when the melodies of life are in the air and the
+fruits of life are on the tree. But let the song of the bird cease, and
+the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing? Will
+I stand in God's house by night? Will I love Him in His own night? Will
+I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane? Will I help to bear
+His cross up the Via Dolorosa? My love has come to Him in His
+humiliation. My faith has found Him in His lowliness. My heart has
+recognized His majesty through His mean disguise, and I know at last
+that I desire not the gift, but the Giver. When I can stand in His house
+by night, I have accepted Him for Himself alone.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=February 6th.=
+
+      _He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so
+      to walk even as He walked. 1 John ii. 6._
+
+The preaching that this world needs most is the _sermons in shoes_ that
+are walking with Jesus Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=February 7th.=
+
+      _Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.
+      Hosea vi. 3._
+
+The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and
+bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it
+opens out upon the plain where God's throne is. Our life is a following
+on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which
+we are called to pass, but afterwards we see that they afforded us some
+new knowledge of our Lord. . . . We have not to wait for some brighter
+opportunity; but by improvement of the present are to build for
+ourselves a bridge to that future.--_G Bowen._
+
+
+=February 8th.=
+
+      _Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
+      and from thy father's house. Gen. xii. 1._
+
+      _Abraham . . . was gathered to his people. Gen. xxv. 8._
+
+After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted over a great
+archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing between us;
+but the time comes when, if our hearts are set upon that great Lord
+whose presence makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all the
+isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent . . . If we cultivate
+that sense of detachment from the present and of having our true
+affinities in the unseen, if we dwell here as strangers because our
+citizenship is in heaven, then death will not drag us away from our
+associates nor hunt us into a lonely land, but will bring us where
+closer bonds shall knit the "sweet societies" together, and the sheep
+shall couch close by one another because all gathered round the one
+Shepherd. Then many a tie shall be re-woven, and the solitary wanderer
+meet again the dear ones whom he had "loved long since and lost
+awhile."--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=February 9th.=
+
+      _Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious
+      unto you. Isa. xxx. 18._
+
+This is God's way. In the darkest hours of the night His tread draws
+near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel
+comes to Peter's cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the
+royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the threatened race.
+
+Ah, soul, it may have come to the worst with thee ere thou art
+delivered; but thou wilt be! God may keep thee waiting, but He will ever
+be mindful of His covenant, and will appear to fulfil His inviolable
+word.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=February 10th.=
+
+      _He loveth our nation and he hath built us a
+      synagogue. Luke vii. 5._
+
+Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may
+be seldom read. _Carve your names on human hearts_; they alone are
+immortal!--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=February 11th.=
+
+      _As many as I love I . . . chasten. Rev. iii. 19._
+
+I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its
+cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear
+blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless
+here on earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a shadow of
+His brightness whose name is Love.--_Dean Alford._
+
+
+=February 12th.=
+
+      _What means these stones? Josh. iv. 21._
+
+      _Ye also as living stones. 1 Pet. ii. 5. (R. V.)_
+
+There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and
+conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, "What
+does this mean?". . . . Is there anything in your character, words, and
+habits of life so different from the world around you that men are
+involuntarily compelled to ask themselves or others, "What does this
+mean?" Not that there is to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for
+the sake of being peculiar; that were merely to copy the pharisaism of
+ancient days. . . . Oh, that we might realize that this is the purpose
+for which God sends us into the world, as He sent His only begotten
+Son!--_S. A. Blackwood._
+
+
+=February 13th.=
+
+     _All . . . saw his face as it had been the face of an
+     angel Acts vi. 15._
+
+The face is made every day by its morning prayer, and by its morning
+look out of windows which open upon heaven.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=February 14th.=
+
+      _At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the
+      tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they
+      journeyed. Num. ix. 23._
+
+This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If an Israelite, in the
+desert, had taken it into his head to make some movement independent of
+Jehovah; if he took it upon him to move when the crowd was at rest, or
+to halt while the crowd was moving, we can easily see what the result
+would have been. And so it will ever be with us. If we move when we
+ought to rest, or rest when we ought to move, we shall not have the
+divine presence with us.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=February 15th.=
+
+      _In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed
+      with that holy Spirit of promise. Eph. i. 13._
+
+The Lord puts a seal upon His own, that everybody may know them. The
+sealing in your case is the Spirit producing in you likeness to the
+Lord. The holier you become, the seal is the more distinct and plain,
+the more evident to every passer-by, for then will men take knowledge of
+you that you have been with Jesus.--_Andrew Bonar._
+
+
+=February 16th.=
+
+      _Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1._
+
+The only preparation for the morrow is the right use of to-day. The
+stone in the hands of the builder must be put in its place and fitted to
+receive another. The morrow comes for naught, if to-day is not heeded.
+Neglect not the call that comes to thee this day, for such neglect is
+nothing else than boasting thyself of to-morrow.--_G. Bowen._
+
+
+=February 17th.=
+
+      _I will help thee, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 14._
+
+O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the
+omnipotence of the united Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than
+exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more
+power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring hither
+thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it. Haste, gather up
+thy wants, and bring them here--thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs.
+Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire
+beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might. The eternal God is thine
+helper!--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=February 18th.=
+
+      _To every man his work. Mark xiii. 34._
+
+He does the most for God's great world who does the best in his own
+little world.--_Selected._
+
+
+=February 19th.=
+
+      _Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. John xxi.
+      10._
+
+Why was this? Oh, the Lord wants us to minister to Him as well as to
+receive from Him, and our service finds its true end when it becomes
+food for our dear Lord. He was pleased to feed on their fish while they
+were feeding on His. It was the double banquet of which He speaks in the
+tender message of revelation, "I will sup with him, and he with
+Me."--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=February 20th.=
+
+      _By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a
+      place which he should after receive for an
+      inheritance, obeyed. Heb. xi. 8._
+
+Whither he went, he knew not; it was enough for him to know that he went
+with God. He leant not so much upon the promises as upon the Promiser.
+He looked not on the difficulties of his lot, but on the King, eternal,
+immortal, invisible, the only wise God, who had deigned to appoint his
+course, and would certainly vindicate Himself. O glorious faith! This is
+thy work, these are thy possibilities: contentment to sail with sealed
+orders, because of unwavering confidence in the love and wisdom of the
+Lord High Admiral: willinghood to rise up, leave all, and follow Christ,
+because of the glad assurance that earth's best cannot bear comparison
+with heaven's least.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=February 21st.=
+
+      _The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions
+      are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3._
+
+God does not _measure_ what we bring to Him. He _weighs_ it.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=February 22nd.=
+
+      _After ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of
+      afflictions. Heb. x. 32._
+
+Our boldness for God _before the world_ must always be the result of
+individual dealing with God _in secret_. Our victories over self, and
+sin, and the world, are always first fought where no eye sees but
+God's. . . . If we have not these _secret_ conflicts, well may we not
+have any _open_ ones. The _outward_ absence of conflict betrays the
+_inward_ sleep of the soul.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=February 23d.=
+
+      _Philip findeth Nathaniel and saith unto him, We have
+      found Him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets
+      did write. . . . Come and see. John i. 45, 46._
+
+The next thing to knowing that "we have found Him" is to find someone
+else, and say, "Come and see."--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=February 24th.=
+
+      _The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest
+      the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh
+      and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of
+      the Spirit. John iii. 8._
+
+We know that the wind listeth to blow where there is a vacuum. If you
+find a tremendous rush of wind, you know that somewhere there is an
+empty space. I am perfectly sure about this fact: if we could expel all
+pride, vanity, self-righteousness, self-seeking, desire for applause,
+honor, and promotion--if by some divine power we should be utterly
+emptied of all that, the Spirit would come as a rushing mighty wind to
+fill us.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=February 25th.=
+
+      _Thy gentleness hath made me great. 2 Sam. xxii. 36._
+
+The gentleness of Christ is the comeliest ornament that a Christian can
+wear.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=February 26th.=
+
+      _Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
+      Gen. xxxii. 1._
+
+It is in the path where God has bade us walk that we shall find the
+angels around us. We may meet them, indeed, on paths of our own
+choosing, but it will be the sort of angel that Balaam met, with a sword
+in his hand, mighty and beautiful, but wrathful too; and we had better
+not front him! But the friendly helpers, the emissaries of God's love,
+the apostles of His grace, do not haunt the roads that we make for
+ourselves.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=February 27th.=
+
+      _I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
+      unto the Father but by me. John xiv. 6._
+
+Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road
+thither is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way. We do not want
+to see far ahead--only far enough to discern Him and trace His
+footsteps. . . . They who follow Christ, even through darkness, will
+surely reach the Father.--_Henry Van Dyke._
+
+
+=February 28th.=
+
+      _Forgetting those things which are behind . . . I press
+      toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
+      God in Christ Jesus. Phil. iii. 13, 14._
+
+It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be
+done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining
+that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have.
+What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement--God's
+doing, though it may be man's misdoing. Life is a series of mistakes,
+and he is not the best Christian who makes the fewest false steps. He is
+the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of
+mistakes.--_F. W. Robertson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MARCH]
+
+
+=March 1st.=
+
+      _Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself unto
+      me in the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2._
+
+The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. This very word
+_morning_ is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let me crush them, and drink
+the sacred wine.
+
+In the morning! Then God means me to be at my best in strength and hope.
+I have not to climb in my weakness. In the night I have buried
+yesterday's fatigue, and in the morning I take a new lease of energy.
+
+Sweet morning! There is hope in its music. Blessed is the day whose
+morning is sanctified! Successful is the day whose first victory was won
+in prayer! Holy is the day whose dawn finds thee on the top of the
+mount! Health is established in the morning. Wealth is won in the
+morning. The light is brightest in the morning. "Wake, psaltery and
+harp; I myself will awake early."--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=March 2nd.=
+
+      _Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
+      Gal. vi. 7._
+
+The most common actions of life, its every day and hour, are invested
+with the highest grandeur, when we think how they extend their issues
+into eternity. Our hands are now sowing seeds for that great harvest. We
+shall meet again all we are doing and have done. The graves shall give
+up their dead, and from the tombs of oblivion the past shall give up all
+that it holds in keeping, to bear true witness for or against
+us.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=March 3rd.=
+
+      _There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way
+      of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-barnea. Deut. i. 2._
+
+Eleven days, and yet it took them forty years! How was this? Alas! we
+need not travel far for the answer. It is only too like ourselves. How
+slowly we get over the ground! What windings and turnings! How often we
+have to go back and travel over the same ground, again and again. We are
+slow travelers because we are slow learners. Our God is a faithful and
+wise, as well as a gracious and patient Teacher. He will not permit us
+to pass cursorily over our lessons. Sometimes, perhaps, we think we have
+mastered a lesson and we attempt to move on to another, but our wise
+Teacher knows better, and He sees the need of deeper ploughing. He will
+not have us mere theorists or smatterers; He will keep us, if need be,
+year after year at our scales until we learn to sing.--=C. H. M.=
+
+
+=March 4th.=
+
+      _If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
+      forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
+      unrighteousness. 1 John i. 9._
+
+The same moment which brings the consciousness of sin ought to bring
+also the confession of it and the consciousness of forgiveness.--_Smith._
+
+
+=March 5th.=
+
+      _As captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
+      Josh. v. 14._
+
+Surely Israel might now face the foe with unwavering confidence, and
+sing of victory even before the battle was gained. And so may the
+Christian. It is to no conflict of uncertain issue that he advances; the
+result of the battle is not doubtful. The struggle may be severe, the
+warfare long; he may sometimes, like the pilgrim, be beaten to the
+ground, and well-nigh lose his sword; but "though cast down" he is "not
+destroyed." The Captain of salvation is on his side, and in the midst of
+sharpest conflict he can say, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the
+victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."--_S. A. Blackwood._
+
+
+=March 6th.=
+
+      _To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. i.
+      21._
+
+Live in Christ, and you are in the suburbs of heaven. There is but a
+thin wall between you and the land of praises. You are within one hour's
+sailing of the shore of the new Canaan.--_William Rutherford._
+
+
+=March 7th.=
+
+      _He that sent me is with me; the Father hath not left
+      me alone, for I do always those things that please
+      Him. John viii. 29._
+
+He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties
+of everyday life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 8th.=
+
+      _Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thess. v. 19._
+
+In order that you may not quench the Spirit, you must make it a constant
+study to know what is the mind of the Spirit. You must discriminate with
+the utmost care between His suggestions and the suggestions of your own
+deceitful heart. You will keep in constant recollection what are the
+offices of the Spirit as described by Christ in the Gospel of John. You
+will be on your guard against impulsive movements, inconsiderate acts,
+rash words. You will abide in prayer. Search the Word. Confess Christ on
+all possible occasions. Seek the society of His people. Shrink from
+conformity to the world, its vain fashions, unmeaning etiquette. Be
+scrupulous in your reading. "What I say unto you, I say unto all,
+watch!" "Have oil in your lamps." "Quench not the Spirit."--_Bowen._
+
+
+=March 9th.=
+
+     _When He cometh into the world, He saith, . . . A body
+     hast Thou prepared me. Heb. x. 5._
+
+This word of Christ must be adopted by each of His followers. Nothing
+will help us to live in this world and keep ourselves unspotted but the
+Spirit that was in Christ, that looked upon His body as prepared by God
+for His service; that looks upon our body as prepared by Him too, that
+we might offer it to Him. Like Christ, we too have a body in which the
+Holy Spirit dwells. Like Christ, we too must yield our body, with every
+member, every power, every action, to fulfil His will, to be offered up
+to Him, to glorify Him. Like Christ, we must prove in our body that we
+are holy to the Lord.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=March 10th.=
+
+      _Full of [satisfied with] years. Gen. xxv. 8._
+
+Scaffoldings are for buildings, and the moments and days and years of
+our earthly lives are scaffolding. What are you building inside it? What
+kind of a structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is knocked
+away? Days and years are ours, that they may give us what eternity
+cannot take away--a character built upon the love of God in Christ, and
+moulded into His likeness.
+
+Has your life helped you to do that? If so, you have got the best out of
+it, and your life is completed, whatever may be the number of its days.
+Quality, not quantity, is the thing that determines the perfectness of a
+life. Has your life this completeness?--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=March 11th.=
+
+      _Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 21._
+
+Fruit ripened in the sun is sweetest.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 12th.=
+
+      _Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is
+      come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto Me. Acts
+      i. 8._
+
+Look at it! Think of it! A hundred and twenty men and women having no
+patronage, no promise of any earthly favor, no endowment, no wealth--a
+company of men and women having to get their living by common daily
+toil, and busied with all the household duties of daily life--and yet
+_they_ are to begin the conquests of Christianity! To them is entrusted
+a work which is to turn the world upside down. None so exalted but the
+influence of this lowly company shall reach to them, until the throne of
+the Cĉsars is claimed for Christ. None so far off but the power of this
+little band gathered in an upper room shall extend to them until the
+whole world is knit into a brotherhood! Not a force is there on the
+earth, either of men or devils, but they shall overcome it, until every
+knee shall bow to their Master, and every tongue shall confess that He
+is Lord.
+
+A thing impossible, absurd, look at it as you will, until you admit
+this--_they are to be filled with the Holy Ghost_. Then difficulties
+melt into the empty air. Then there is no limit to their hopes, for
+there is no limit to their power. Their strength is not only "as the
+strength of ten," it is as the strength of the Almighty.
+
+This is Christ's idea of Christianity; the idea not of man--it is
+infinitely too sublime--the idea of God!--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=March 13th.=
+
+      _He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same
+      bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do
+      nothing. John xv. 5._
+
+Too much taken up with our work, we may forget our Master; it is
+possible to have the hand full, and the heart empty. Taken up with our
+Master we cannot forget our work; if the heart is filled with His love,
+how can the hands not be active in His service?--_Adolphe Monod._
+
+
+=March 14th.=
+
+      _He that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. John vi.
+      57._
+
+To feed on Christ is to get His strength into us to be our strength. You
+feed on the corn field, and the strength of the corn field comes into
+you, and is your strength. You feed on Christ, and then go and live
+your life; and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the
+poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battles, and that wins the
+crown.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=Match 15th.=
+
+      _I sought Him, but I found Him not. Song of Sol. iii.
+      1._
+
+Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the
+most likely place to find Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by
+restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find Him. Did you
+lose Christ by sin? You will find Him in no other way than by the giving
+up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in
+which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the
+Scriptures? You must find Him in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb,
+"Look for a thing where you dropped it; it is there." So look for Christ
+where you lost Him, for He has not gone away.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=March 16th.=
+
+      _Come behind in no gift. 1 Cor. i. 7._
+
+The Scripture gives four names to Christians, taken from the four
+cardinal graces so essential to man's salvation: _Saints_ for their
+holiness, _believers_ for their faith, _brethren_ for their love,
+_disciples_ for their knowledge.--_Thomas Fuller._
+
+
+=March 17th.=
+
+      _They rest not day and night. Rev. iv. 8._
+
+O blessed rest! When we rest not day and night, saying, "Holy, holy,
+holy, Lord God Almighty!"--when we shall rest from sin, but not from
+worship; from suffering and sorrow, but not from joy! O blessed day,
+when I shall rest with God; when I shall rest in knowing, loving,
+rejoicing, and praising; when my perfect soul and body shall together
+perfectly enjoy the most perfect God; when God, who is love itself,
+shall perfectly love me, and rest in His love to me, and I shall rest
+in my love to Him; when He shall rejoice over me with joy, and joy over
+me with singing, and I shall rejoice in Him!--=Baxter.=
+
+
+=March 18th.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
+      strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
+      they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk,
+      and not faint. Isa. xl. 31._
+
+The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself as to how it
+is to cross rivers.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 19th.=
+
+      _Their eyes were holden. Luke xxiv. 16._
+
+      _Their eyes were opened. Luke xxiv. 31._
+
+There is much precious significance in this. The Lord is often present
+in our lives in things that we do not dream possess any significance. We
+are asking God about something which needs His mighty working, and the
+very instrument by which He is to work is by our side, perhaps for weeks
+and months and years all unrecognized, until suddenly, some day it grows
+luminous and glorious with the very presence of the Lord, and becomes
+the mighty instrument of His victorious working. He loves to show His
+hand through the unexpected. Often he keeps us from seeing His way until
+just before He opens it, and then, immediately that it is unfolded, we
+find that He was walking by our side in the very thing, long before we
+even suspected its meaning.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=March 20th.=
+
+      _All things work together for good to them that love
+      God. Rom. viii. 28._
+
+If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our
+circumstances.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 21st.=
+
+      _He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His
+      name's sake. Ps. xxiii. 3._
+
+He always has a purpose in His leading. He knows where the bits of green
+pasture are, and He would lead His flock to these. The way may be rough,
+but it is the right way to the pasture. "Paths of righteousness" may not
+be straight paths; but they are paths that lead somewhere--to the right
+place. Many desert paths are illusive. They start out clear and plain,
+but soon they are lost in the sands. They go nowhere. But the paths of
+righteousness have a goal to which they unerringly lead.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=March 22nd.=
+
+      _And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the
+      hand of him whom thou wilt send. Ex. iv. 13._
+
+It was a very grudging assent. It was as much as to say, "Since Thou art
+determined to send me and I must undertake the mission, then let it be
+so; but I would that it might have been another, and I go because I am
+compelled." So often do we shrink back from the sacrifice or obligation
+to which God calls us, that we think we are going to our doom. We seek
+every reason for evading the divine will, little realizing that He is
+forcing us out from our quiet homes into a career which includes, among
+other things, the song of victory on the banks of the Red Sea; the two
+lonely sojourns for forty days in converse with God; the shining face;
+the vision of glory; the burial by the hand of Michael; and the supreme
+honor of standing beside the Lord on the Transfiguration mount.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=March 23rd.=
+
+      _See then that ye walk circumspectly. Eph. v. 15._
+
+There is no such thing as negative influence. We are all positive in the
+place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse.--_T. DeWitt
+Talmage._
+
+
+=March 24th.=
+
+      _She took for him an ark of bulrushes . . . and she laid
+      it in the flags by the river's brink. Ex. ii. 3._
+
+The mother of Moses laid the ark in the flags by the river's brink. Ay,
+but before doing so, she laid it on the heart of God! She could not have
+laid it so courageously upon the Nile, if she had not first devoutly
+laid it upon the care and love of God.
+
+We are often surprised at the outward calmness of men who are called
+upon to do unpleasant and most trying deeds; but could we have seen them
+in secret, we should have known the moral preparation which they
+underwent before coming out to be seen by men. Be right in the
+sanctuary, if you would be right in the market-place. Be steadfast in
+prayer, if you would be calm in affliction. Start your race from the
+throne of God itself, if you would run well, and win the prize.--_Joseph
+Parker._
+
+
+=March 25th.=
+
+      _Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law
+      of Christ. Gal. vi. 2._
+
+By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 26th.=
+
+      _I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.
+      John xvii. 4._
+
+Was the work of the Master indeed done? Was not its heaviest task yet to
+come? He had not yet met the dread hour of death. Why did He say that
+His work was done? It was because He knew that, when the will is given,
+the battle is ended. He was only in the shadows of the garden; but to
+conquer these shadows was already to conquer all. He who has willed to
+die has already triumphed over death. All that remains to Him is but the
+outer husk, the shell.
+
+The cup which our Father giveth us to drink is a cup for the will. It is
+easy for the lips to drain it when once the heart has accepted it. Not
+on the heights of Calvary, but in the shadows of Gethsemane is the cup
+presented; the act is easy after the choice. The real battle-field is
+in the silence of the spirit. Conquer there, and thou art
+crowned.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=March 27th.=
+
+      _A great multitude . . . stood before the throne. Rev.
+      vii. 9._
+
+A _station on the feet_ in front of the throne in _heaven_ is the effect
+of being often _on the knees_ before the throne on _earth_.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 28th.=
+
+      _God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided
+      the light from the darkness. Gen. i. 4._
+
+No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a _division is
+necessary_. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them,
+let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with
+deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must
+be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord's work, leaving the works of
+darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever.
+
+We should by our distinct separation from the world divide the light
+from the darkness. In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in
+association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and
+maintain the great distinction which the Lord made upon the world's
+first day.
+
+O Lord Jesus, be Thou our light throughout the whole of this day, for
+Thy light is the light of men.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=March 29th.=
+
+      _The path of the just is as the shining light, that
+      shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Prov. iv.
+      18._
+
+Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? Am I
+progressing in it? Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light,
+earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? Let all God's dealings
+serve to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may please Him to
+send, be as the moving pillar-cloud of old, beckoning me to move my tent
+onward, saying, "Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest." Let me
+be often standing now on faith's lofty eminences, looking for "the day
+of God"--the rising sun which is to set no more in weeping clouds.
+Wondrous progression! How will all earth's learning, its boasted
+acquirements and eagle-eyed philosophy sink into the lispings of very
+infancy in comparison with this manhood of knowledge! Heaven will be the
+true "_Excelsior_," its song, "_a song of degrees_," Jesus leading His
+people from height to height of glory, and saying, as He said to
+Nathaniel, "_Thou shalt see GREATER things than these!_"--_Macduff._
+
+
+=March 30th.=
+
+      _Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the
+      vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. Song of
+      Sol. ii. 15. (R. V.)_
+
+How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises with the world;
+disobedience to the still, small voice in little things; little
+indulgences of the flesh to the neglect of duty; little strokes of
+policy; doing evil in little things that good may come; and the beauty,
+and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed!--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=March 31st.=
+
+      _The children of your Father which is in heaven. Matt.
+      v. 45._
+
+The best name by which we can think of God is Father. It is a loving,
+deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of father is in its
+nature full of inborn sweetness and comfort. Therefore, also, we must
+confess ourselves children of God, for by this name we deeply touch our
+God, since there is not a sweeter sound to the father than the voice of
+the child.--_Martin Luther._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: APRIL]
+
+
+
+=April 1st.=
+
+      _In the morning came the word of the Lord unto me.
+      Ezek. xii. 8._
+
+A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the
+best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief
+season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and
+seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our
+religion into the business of the day. It brings joy and peace within
+the heart. And as we place all our concerns in the care and keeping of
+the Lord, faithfully striving to do His will, we have a joyful trust
+that however dark or discouraging events may appear, our Father's hand
+is guiding everything, and will give the wisest direction to all our
+toils.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 2nd.=
+
+      _The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the
+      ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
+      life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7._
+
+And so this soul of mine is a compound of two worlds--dust and deity! It
+touches the boundary line of two hemispheres. It is allied on one side
+to the divine; on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is
+from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is started from the
+dust of the ground, but it is finished in the breath of God.
+
+My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin? Art thou remembering
+thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty? Thou hast a duty to
+thy God, for His breath is in thee; thou hast a duty to the earth, for
+out of it wast thou taken.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=April 3rd.=
+
+      _Always rejoicing. 2 Cor. vi. 10._
+
+No Christian can ever know what is meant by those two little words,
+"always rejoicing," but the Christian who takes up his cross and follows
+Jesus.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=April 4th.=
+
+      _All the land which thou seest, to thee will I give
+      it, and to thy seed forever. Gen. xiii. 15._
+
+God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another,
+fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said, "I will
+show thee the land." At Bethel, "This is the land." Here, "I will give
+thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand." And
+we shall find even these eclipsed.
+
+It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving anything till
+we have dared to act--that He may test us. Not giving everything at
+first--that He may not overwhelm us. And always keeping in hand an
+infinite reserve of blessing. Oh, the unexplored remainders of God!
+Whoever saw His last star?--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=April 5th.=
+
+      _That night they caught nothing. John xxi. 3._
+
+God may let the sinful world succeed in their forbidden schemes, but,
+blessed be His name, He does not allow His chosen ones to prosper in the
+path which leads them out of His holy will! He has a storm to send after
+every Jonah, and an empty net for every unbelieving and inconsistent
+Simon.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=April 6th.=
+
+      _They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own
+      vineyard have I not kept. Song of Sol. i. 6._
+
+Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of
+this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service
+_to the neglect of personal communion_; but such neglect will not only
+lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the
+highest service.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=April 7th.=
+
+      _We came unto the land whither thou sentest us . . . we
+      saw the children of Anak there. Num. xiii. 27, 28._
+
+It is when we are in the way of _duty_ that we find _giants_. It was
+when Israel was going _forward_ that the giants appeared. When they
+turned back into the wilderness they found none.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 8th.=
+
+      _Each one resembled the children of a king. Judg.
+      viii. 18._
+
+Frances Ridley Havergal says: "If the King is indeed near of kin to us,
+the royal likeness will be recognizable."
+
+
+=April 9th.=
+
+      _He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He
+      leadeth me beside the still waters. Psa. xxiii. 2._
+
+This suggests the rest into which our Good Shepherd leads His flock.
+Life is not all toil. God gives us many quiet resting-places in our
+pilgrim way.
+
+Night is one of these, when, after the day's toil, struggle, and
+exhaustion, we are led aside, and the curtains are drawn to shut out the
+noise, and He giveth His beloved sleep, in sleep giving the wonderful
+blessings of renewal. The Sabbath is another of these quiet
+resting-places. God would have us drop our worldly tasks, and have a day
+for the refreshing of both body and soul. . . . Friendship's trysts are
+also quiet resting-places, where heart may commune with heart, where
+Jesus comes, too, unseen, and gives His blessing. All ordinances of
+Christian worship--seasons of prayer and devotion, hours of communion
+with God--are quiet resting-places.
+
+Far more than we are apt to realize do we need these silent times in our
+busy life, needing them all the more the busier the life may be.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=April 10th.=
+
+      _A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30._
+
+One staff aids a traveler, but a bundle of staves is a heavy
+burden.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=April 11th.=
+
+      _Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law
+      of Christ. Gal. vi. 2._
+
+However perplexed you may at any hour become about some question of
+truth, one refuge and resource is always at hand: you can do something
+for some one beside yourself. At the times when you cannot see God,
+there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to _show_ God: for
+it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine
+reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not. Let this
+thought, then, stay with you: there may be times when you cannot _find_
+help, but there is no time when you cannot _give_ help.--_George
+Merriam._
+
+
+=April 12th.=
+
+      _Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:
+      for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
+      do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13._
+
+It is not your business and mine to study whether we shall get to
+heaven, or even to study whether we shall be good men; it is our
+business to study how we shall come into the midst of the purposes of
+God and have the unspeakable privilege in these few years of doing
+something of His work.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=April 13th.=
+
+      _God . . . hath shined in our hearts, to give the light
+      of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
+      Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. iv. 6._
+
+Christian! rest not until thou knowest the full, the unbroken shining of
+God in thy heart. To this end, yield to every stirring of it that shows
+thee some unconquered and perhaps unconquerable evil. Just bring it to
+the light; let the light shine upon it, and shine it out. Wait upon the
+Lord more than watchers for the morning, for "the path of the just is as
+the shining light, shining more and more unto the perfect day." Count
+upon it that God wants to fill thee with the light of His glory: wait on
+Him more than watchers for the morning. "Wait, I say, on the
+Lord."--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=April 14th.=
+
+      _My soul, wait thou only upon God. Psa. lxii. 5._
+
+Did it ever occur to you that if you do not hear God's answer to prayer,
+it may be not because He is dumb, but because you are deaf; not because
+He has no answer to give, but because you have not been listening for
+it? We are so busy with our service, so busy with our work, and
+sometimes so busy with our praying, that it does not occur to us to stop
+our own talking and listen if God has some answer to give us with "the
+still small voice"; to be passive, to be quiet, to do nothing, say
+nothing, in some true sense think nothing; simply to be receptive and
+waiting for the voice. "Wait thou only upon God," says the Psalmist; and
+again "Wait on the Lord."--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 15th.=
+
+      _Could ye not watch with me one hour? Matt. xxvi. 40._
+
+        Oh! ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power,
+        Heed ye this gentle whisper, "Could ye not watch one hour?"
+        To fruitfulness and blessing, there is no "royal road";
+        The power for holy service is intercourse with God.
+                                                    --_Selected._
+
+
+=April 16th.=
+
+      _My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John
+      iv. 34._
+
+Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=April 17th.=
+
+      _It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to
+      do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 13._
+
+Full salvation is to realize that everything we see in Christ, our
+Example, may be ours, not by imitation, but by reproduction.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 18th.=
+
+      _Lo, I am with you all the days. Matt, xxviii. 20. (R.
+      V., margin.)_
+
+"ALL THE DAYS"--in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days,
+when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness
+and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when
+the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song.
+That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His
+saints. Lover and friend may stand afar, but He walks with them through
+the fires; He fords with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to
+face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must always add His
+resources to our own when making our calculations.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=April 19th.=
+
+      _Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the
+      blood of Jesus . . . let us draw near with a true heart.
+      Heb. x. 19, 22._
+
+Oh, the glory of the message! For fifteen centuries Israel had a
+sanctuary with a Holiest of All, into which, under pain of death, no one
+might enter. Its one witness was: Man cannot dwell in God's presence;
+cannot abide in His fellowship. And now how changed is all! As then the
+warning sounded: "No admittance! enter not!" so now the call goes forth:
+"Enter in! the veil is rent; the Holiest is open; God waits to welcome
+you to His bosom; henceforth you are to live with Him." This is the
+message. Child! thy Father longs for thee to enter, to dwell, and to go
+out no more forever.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=April 20th.=
+
+      _There stood by me this night the angel of God . . .
+      saying, Fear not, Paul. . . . God hath given thee all
+      them that sail with thee. Wherefore . . . be of good
+      cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it
+      was told me. Acts xxvii. 23, 24, 25._
+
+An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not yet
+performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready
+money.--_Matthew Henry._
+
+
+=April 21st.=
+
+      _In everything by prayer and supplication, with
+      thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto
+      God. Phil, iv. 6._
+
+The natural temptation with every difficulty is to plan for it, to put
+it out of the way yourself; but stop short with all your planning, your
+thinking, your worry, and talk to Him! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
+and He shall sustain thee." You may not always be able to do this in a
+moment or two. Then keep on with supplication until you know He has it,
+and prayer becomes praise. Rest, trust, and wait, and see how He does
+that which you wanted to do, and had so much care about. "Stand still
+and see the salvation of the Lord."--_A. E. Funk._
+
+
+=April 22nd.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall . . . mount up with
+      wings as eagles. Isa. xl. 31._
+
+All creatures that have wings can escape from every snare that is set
+for them, if only they will fly high enough; and the soul that uses its
+wings can always find a sure "way to escape" from all that can hurt or
+trouble it.--_Smith._
+
+
+=April 23rd.=
+
+      _Perfect love casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18._
+
+Fear and love rise up in antagonism to each other as motives in life,
+like those two mountains from which respectively the blessings and
+curses of the old law were pronounced--the Mount of Cursing all barren,
+stony, without verdure and without water; the Mount of Blessing green
+and bright with many a flower, and blessed with many a trickling rill.
+Fear is barren. Love is fruitful. The one is a slave, and its work is
+little worth. The other is free, and its deeds are great and precious.
+From the blasted summit of the mountain which gendereth to bondage may
+be heard the words of the law; but the power to keep all these laws must
+be sought on the sunny hill where liberty dwells in love and gives
+energy to obedience. Therefore, if you would use in your own life the
+highest power that God has given us for our growth in grace, draw your
+arguments, not from fear, but from love.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=April 24th.=
+
+      _The love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor. v. 14._
+
+The love of Christ is too large for any heart to hold it. It will
+overflow into others' hearts: it will give itself out, give itself away,
+for the enriching of other lives. The heart of Christ is a costly thing
+for any one to have. It will lead those who have it where it led Him. If
+it cost Him the cross, it will cost them no less.--_J. M. Campbell._
+
+
+=April 25th.=
+
+      _I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying
+      unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. Isa. xli. 13._
+
+Don't try to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the
+_holding_, and you do the _trusting_.--_H. W. Webb Peploe._
+
+
+=April 26th.=
+
+      _Consider how great things He hath done for you. 1
+      Sam. xii. 24._
+
+Look back on all the way the Lord your God has led you. Do you not see
+it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise? Call to mind the
+needed succor sent at the critical moment; the right way chosen for you,
+in stead of the wrong way you had chosen for yourself; the hurtful
+thing to which your heart so fondly clung, removed out of your path; the
+breathing-time granted, which your tried and struggling spirit just at
+the moment needed. Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it
+not? Has not Infinite Love encircled every event with its everlasting
+arms, and gilded every cloud with its merciful lining? Oh, retrace your
+steps, and mark His footprint in each one! Thank Him for them all, and
+learn the needed lesson of leaning more simply on Jesus.--_F.
+Whitfield._
+
+
+=April 27th.=
+
+     _He . . . said . . . I . . . hid thy talent in the
+     earth. . . . His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou
+     wicked and slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 24-26._
+
+Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not
+do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.--_Monod._
+
+
+=April 28th.=
+
+      _To Him be glory both now and forever. 2 Pet. iii.
+      18._
+
+Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints
+above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him _now_?
+The apostle's words are, "To Him be glory both _now_ and forever."--_C.
+H. Spurgeon._
+
+
+=April 29th.=
+
+      _Thou shall know that I am the Lord: for they shall
+      not be ashamed that wait for me. Isa. xlix. 23._
+
+J. Hudson Taylor says: "Quiet waiting before God could save from many a
+mistake and from many a sorrow."
+
+
+=April 30th.=
+
+      _Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. Matt. xv. 28._
+
+Oh, the victories of prayer! They are the mountain-tops of the Bible.
+They take us back to the plains of Mamre, to the fords of Peniel, to
+the prison of Joseph, to the triumphs of Moses, to the transcendent
+victories of Joshua, to the deliverances of David, to the miracles of
+Elijah and Elisha, to the whole story of the Master's life, to the
+secret of Pentecost, to the key-note of Paul's unparalleled ministry, to
+the lives of saints and the deaths of martyrs, to all that is most
+sacred and sweet in the history of the Church and the experience of the
+children of God. And when, for us, the last conflict shall have passed,
+and the footstool of prayer shall have given place to the harp of
+praise, the spots of time that shall be gilded with the most celestial
+and eternal radiance, shall be those, often linked with deepest sorrow
+and darkest night, over which we have the inscription, "Jehovah-Shammah:
+The Lord was there!"--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MAY]
+
+
+=May 1st.=
+
+      _Thou art my God: early will I seek Thee. Psa. lxiii.
+      1._
+
+In a world where there is so much to ruffle the spirit's plumes, how
+needful that entering into the secret of God's pavilion, which will
+alone bring it back to composure and peace! In a world where there is so
+much to sadden and depress, how blessed the communion with Him in whom
+is the one true source and fountain of all true gladness and abiding
+joy! In a world where so much is ever seeking to unhallow our spirits,
+to render them common and profane, how high the privilege of
+consecrating them anew in prayer to holiness and to God.--_Archbishop
+Trench._
+
+
+=May 2nd.=
+
+      _In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
+      John i. 4. Ye are the light of the world. Matt. v.
+      14._
+
+In the light we can walk and work. We walk in the light and become
+entirely children of light. We let our light, the light of God, shine,
+so that men may see our good works, and glorify our Father in heaven.
+Gently, silently, lovingly, unceasingly, we give ourselves to transmit
+the light and the love God so unceasingly shines into us. Our one work
+is to wait, and admit, and then transmit the light of God in
+Christ.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=May 3d.=
+
+      _Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the
+      work of the Lord. 1 Cor. xv. 58._
+
+Activity in doing good is one recipe for being cheerful Christians; it
+is like exercise to the body, and it keeps the soul in health.--_Bishop
+Ryle._
+
+
+=May 4th.=
+
+      _Looking up to heaven He sighed. Mark vii. 34._
+
+Too often we sigh and look within; Jesus sighed and looked without. We
+sigh, and look down; Jesus sighed, and looked up. We sigh, and look to
+earth; Jesus sighed, and looked to heaven. We sigh, and look to man;
+Jesus sighed, and looked to God.--_Stork._
+
+
+=May 5th.=
+
+      _We glory in tribulations. Rom. v. 3._
+
+Have you ever thought that some day you will never have anything to try
+you or anybody to vex you again?--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=May 6th.=
+
+      _Set your affection on things above, not on things on
+      the earth. Col. iii. 2._
+
+He who has his affections set on things above is like one who hangs on
+by the skies; and, having a secure hold of these, could say, though he
+saw the world roll away from beneath his feet, "My heart is fixed; my
+heart is fixed; O Lord, I will sing and give praise!"--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=May 7th.=
+
+      _The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
+      Luke xxiv. 34._
+
+      _They . . . gladly received (Peter's) word; and the
+      same day there were added unto them about three
+      thousand souls. Acts ii. 41._
+
+Before the Lord can use us in His service we must have close individual
+dealing with Himself. He always will have to do in _secret_ with that
+soul that He intends to use in blessing others.
+
+Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you? Then you must go to
+Jesus Himself for your message. What you say _for_ Jesus must be got
+_from_ Jesus.
+
+Oh, how much breath falls powerless on every side because it has not
+been inhaled in the sanctuary! We want more secret dealing with the
+living God. We run without being sent: we speak before God has spoken to
+us: no wonder we so often fail. Oh, what secret prayer and what
+heart-searching discipline the heart needs before God can use it!--_F.
+Whitfield._
+
+
+=May 8th.=
+
+      _The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul.
+      Prov. xiii. 25._
+
+Christ must satisfy; then, if we are not satisfied, it must be because
+we are not feeding on Him wholly and only. The fault is not in the
+provision which is made.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=May 9th.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+It has been well said that "earthly cares are a heavenly discipline,"
+but they are even something better than discipline; they are God's
+chariots, sent to take the soul to its high places of triumph. In the
+Canticles we are told of "a chariot paved with love." We cannot always
+see the love lining to our own particular chariot--it often looks very
+unlovely; but every chariot sent by God must necessarily be paved with
+love, since God is love. It is His love, indeed, that sends the chariot.
+
+Look upon your chastenings, then, no matter how grievous they may be for
+the present, as God's chariots, sent to carry your souls into the "high
+places" of spiritual achievement and uplifting, and you will find that
+they are, after all, "paved with love."--_Smith._
+
+
+=May 10th.=
+
+      _The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from
+      all sin. 1 John i. 7._
+
+Learn a lesson from the eye of the miner, who all day long is working
+amid the flying coal dust. When he emerges in the light of day his face
+may be grimy enough; but his eyes are clear and lustrous, because the
+fountain of tears in the lachrymal gland is ever pouring its gentle
+tides over the eye, cleansing away each speck of dust as soon as it
+alights.
+
+Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a
+world as this? And this is what our blessed Lord is prepared to do for
+us by His cleansing blood, if only we will trust Him.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=May 11th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever He sayeth unto you, do it. John ii. 5._
+
+Florence Nightingale said: "If I could give you information of my life,
+it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by
+God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has
+done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done
+all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I
+have never refused God anything."
+
+
+=May 12th.=
+
+      _I know how to abound. Phil. iv. 12._
+
+It is a dangerous thing to be prosperous. The crucible of adversity is
+a less severe trial to the Christian than the refining-pot of
+prosperity. It needs more than human skill to carry the brimming cup of
+mortal joy with a steady hand; yet Paul had learned that skill, for he
+declares, "In all things I am instructed both to be full and to be
+hungry." When we have much of God's providential mercies it often
+happens that we have but little of God's grace; satisfied with earth, we
+are content to do without heaven. Rest assured, it is harder to know how
+to be full than it is to know how to be hungry, so desperate is the
+tendency of human nature to pride and forgetfulness of God. Take care
+that you ask in your prayers that God would teach you "how to be
+full."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=May 13th.=
+
+      _Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he
+      that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11._
+
+. . . If you ask the way to the crown--'tis by the cross; to the
+mountain--'tis by the valley; to exaltation 'tis he that humbleth
+himself.--_J. H. Evans._
+
+
+=May 14th.=
+
+      _For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
+      might be sanctified through the truth. John xvii. 19._
+
+Do you remember, when Jesus was sitting with His disciples at the last
+supper, how He lifted up His voice and prayed, and in the midst of His
+prayer there came these wondrous words: "For their sakes I sanctify
+myself, that they also might be sanctified"? Is there anything in all
+the teachings that man has had from the lips of God that is nobler, that
+is more far-reaching than that--to be my best not simply for my own
+sake, but for the sake of the world? You can help your fellow-men--you
+must help your fellow-men; but the only way you can help them is by
+being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to
+be.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=May 15th.=
+
+      _He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
+      and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a
+      city. Prov. xvi. 32._
+
+More dear in the sight of God and His angels than any other conquest is
+the conquest of self, which each man, with the help of heaven, can
+secure for himself.--_Dean Stanley._
+
+
+=May 16th.=
+
+      _For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me
+      my petition which I asked of Him: therefore also I
+      have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he
+      shall be lent to the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 27, 28._
+
+God sometimes bestows gifts just that love may have something to
+renounce. The things that He puts into our hands are possibly put there
+that we may have the opportunity of showing what is in our heart. Oh,
+that there were in us a fervor of love that would lead us to examine
+everything that belongs to us, to ascertain how it might be made a means
+of showing our affection to Christ!--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=May 17th.=
+
+      _Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
+      righteousness, and all these things shall be added
+      unto you. Matt. vi. 33._
+
+We need have only one care, that we put the first thing
+first--faithfulness to God. Then all else we need for both worlds will
+be supplied. God will never fail us; but we forget, sometimes, in our
+rejoicing over such an assurance, that we must fulfil our part if we
+would claim the divine promise.
+
+It will not always be easy. To-morrow it may mean a distasteful task, a
+disagreeable duty, a costly sacrifice for one who does not seem worthy.
+Life is full of sore testings of our willingness to follow the Good
+Shepherd. We have not the slightest right to claim this assurance unless
+we have taken Christ as the guide of our life.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=May 18th.=
+
+      _His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psa.
+      xxxiv. 1._
+
+Let not thy praises be transient--a fit of music, and then the
+instrument hung by the wall till another gaudy day of some remarkable
+providence makes thee take it down. God comes not guestwise to His
+saints' house, but to dwell with them. David took this up for a life
+work: "As long as I live, I will praise thee."--_Gurnall._
+
+
+=May 19th.=
+
+      _I am not able to bear all this people alone, because
+      it is too heavy for me. Num. xi. 14._
+
+It is most needful for all servants of Christ to remember that whenever
+the Lord places a man in a position of responsibility, He will both fit
+him for it and maintain him in it.
+
+It is, of course, another thing altogether if a man will rush unsent
+into any field of work, or any post of difficulty or danger. In such a
+case we may assuredly look for a thorough breakdown, sooner or later.
+But when God calls a man to a certain position, He will endow him with
+the needed grace to occupy it.
+
+This holds good in every case. We can never fail if we only cling to the
+living God. We can never run dry if we are drawing from the fountain.
+Our tiny springs will soon dry up; but our Lord Jesus Christ declares,
+"He that believeth in Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly
+shall flow rivers of living water."--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=May 20th.=
+
+      _Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone: because I am
+      a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
+      people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the
+      King, the Lord of hosts. Isa. vi. 5._
+
+It is not the sight of our sinful heart that humbles us; it is a sight
+of Jesus Christ. I am undone because mine eyes have seen the
+King.--_Andrew A. Bonar._
+
+
+=May 21st.=
+
+      _While I was musing the fire burned. Psa. xxxix. 3._
+
+My soul, if thou wouldst muse more, the fire would burn more. Why dost
+thou not retire oftener with thyself? Thou wouldst be better fitted for
+the world if thou wert less worldly. If thou hadst more heavenly fire
+thou wouldst have more earthly power.
+
+Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go and warm thyself?
+Is there no holy of holies where thou canst catch a glow of impulse that
+will make thee strong? Is it not written of the Son of Man that "as He
+_prayed_ the fashion of His countenance was altered"? Yes; it was from
+His prayer that His transfigured glory came. It was from the glow of His
+heart that there issued the glow of His countenance. It was when He was
+musing that the fire kindled.
+
+O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified, beautified,
+transfigured to the eyes of men? Get thee up into the secret place of
+God's pavilion, where the fires of love are burning. Thy life shall
+shine gloriously to the dwellers on the plain. Thy prayers shall be
+luminous; they shall light thy face like the face of Moses when he wist
+not that it shone. Thy words shall be burning; they will kindle many a
+heart journeying on the road to Emmaus. Thy path shall be lambent; when
+thou hast prayed in Elijah's solitude thou shalt have Elijah's chariot
+of fire.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=May 22nd.=
+
+      _Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these
+      little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a
+      disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in nowise
+      lose his reward. Matt. x. 42._
+
+We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities of doing good and
+communicating. In reaching for rhododendrons we trample down the
+daisies.--_Selected._
+
+
+=May 23rd.=
+
+      _Hide thyself by the brook. 1 Kings xvii. 3._
+
+Not by the _river_, but by the _brook_. The river would always contain
+an abundant supply, but the brook might dry up at any moment.
+
+What does this teach us? God does not place His people in luxuriance
+here. The world's abundance might withdraw their affections from Him. He
+gives them not the river, but the brook. The brook may be running
+to-day, to-morrow it may be dried up.
+
+And wherefore does God act thus? To teach us that we are not to rest in
+His gifts and blessings, but in Himself. This is what our hearts are
+always doing--resting in the gift, instead of the Giver. Therefore God
+cannot trust us by the river, for it unconsciously takes up His place in
+the heart. It is said of Israel that when they were full they forgot
+God.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=May 24th.=
+
+      _His kingdom ruleth over all. Psa. ciii. 19._
+
+_His kingdom ruleth over all_--therefore thou canst find nothing which
+is not matter for praise, since there is nothing which is not the matter
+of thy Lord's gracious permission, or planning, or control. _Over
+all_--nowhere canst thou step outside His realm, nor in anything get
+beyond His care and government. _Over all_--therefore take all as from
+God; hold all as from God; and by thy gratitude give all back to God
+again, and thus complete the circle, making Him the Alpha and Omega, the
+Beginning and the Ending of all things.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=May 25th.=
+
+      _If we suffer we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim. ii.
+      12._
+
+The highest bidder for the crown of glory is the lowliest wearer of the
+cross of self-denial.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=May 26th.=
+
+      _Keep thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are
+      the issues of life. Prov. iv. 23._
+
+He who would keep his heart pure and holy, must plant a sentinel at
+every avenue by which sin may find access there, guarding against none
+more than the "little" sins, as they are called.
+
+The man of God has his _eyes_ to keep, and so Job said, "I have made a
+covenant with mine eyes"--his _tongue_, and hence the exhortation, "Keep
+thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile"--his _ears_, and
+hence the warning, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth
+to err"--his _feet_, and hence David says, "I have refrained my feet
+from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word." And since there is no
+gate of the five senses by which the enemy may not come in like a flood,
+unless the Spirit lift up a standard against him, we have need to guard
+every port, and write over every portal, "Here there entereth nothing to
+hurt or to defile."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=May 27th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever ye do, . . . do all in the name of the Lord
+      Jesus. Col. iii. 17._
+
+Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the
+Lord Jesus Christ, who dwells in thee; and do great things as if they
+were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.--_Pascal._
+
+
+=May 28th.=
+
+      _Him they compelled to bear His cross. Matt. xxvii.
+      32._
+
+There are many Christians of whom this is true. They are compelled to
+bear the cross, but how does it come? It comes by their running away
+from it. They make up their minds they won't have Christ's cross; and
+they find when the cross does come that it comes in a more terrible
+form, with a more crushing weight than ever it would have come had they
+only been content to submit themselves to the divine direction; for the
+cross has to come to all who are to be prepared for glory
+hereafter.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=May 29th.=
+
+      _Our Lord Jesus Christ . . . gave Himself for our sins
+      that He might deliver us from this present evil world.
+      Gal. i. 4._
+
+Attachment to Christ is the only secret of detachment from the
+world.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=May 30th.=
+
+      _Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on
+      an hill cannot be hid. Matt. v. 14._
+
+Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum, it
+beats no gong; and yet far over the waters its friendly spark is seen by
+the mariner. So let your actions shine out your religion. Let the main
+sermon of your life be illustrated by all your conduct.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=May 31st.=
+
+      _Without me ye can do nothing. John xv. 5._
+
+      _I can do all things, through Christ which
+      strengtheneth me. Phil. iv. 13._
+
+Apart from Him we can do nothing. Whilst we are abiding in Him nothing
+is impossible. The one purpose of our life should therefore be to remain
+in living and intense union with Christ, guarding against everything
+that would break it, employing every means of cementing and enlarging
+it. And just in proportion as we do so, we shall find His strength
+flowing into us for every possible emergency. We may not feel its
+presence; but we shall find it present whenever we begin to draw on it.
+There is no temptation which we cannot master; no privation which we
+cannot patiently bear; no difficulty with which we cannot cope; no work
+which we cannot perform; no confession or testimony which we cannot
+make, if only our souls are living in healthy union with Jesus Christ;
+for as our day or hour, so shall our strength be.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JUNE]
+
+
+=June 1st.=
+
+      _As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. John
+      xx. 21._
+
+We should never leave our room until we have seen the face of our dear
+Master, Christ, and have realized that we are being sent forth by Him to
+do His will, and to finish the work which He has given us to do. He who
+said to His immediate followers, "As my Father hath sent me, even so
+send I you," says as much to each one of us, as the dawn summons us to
+live another day. We should realize that we are as much sent forth by
+Him as the angels who "do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of
+His word." There is some plan for each day's work, which He will unfold
+to us, if only we will look up to Him to do so; some mission to fulfil;
+some ministry to perform; some lesson patiently to learn, that we may be
+able to "reach others also." As to our plans we need not be anxious;
+because He who sends us forth is responsible to make the plan, according
+to His infinite wisdom; and to reveal it to us, however dull and stupid
+our faculties may be. And as to our sufficiency, we are secure of having
+all needful grace; because He never sends us forth, except He first
+breathes on us and says, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." There is always a
+special endowment for special power.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=June 2nd.=
+
+      _A fountain . . . for sin and for uncleanness. Zech.
+      xiii. 1._
+
+You that have faith in the Fountain, _frequent it_. Beware of two errors
+which are very natural and very disastrous. Beware of thinking any sin
+too great for it; beware of thinking any sin too small. There is not a
+sin so little, but it may be the germ of everlasting perdition; there is
+not a sin so enormous, but a drop of atoning blood will wash it away as
+utterly as if it were drowned in the depths of the sea.--_James
+Hamilton._
+
+
+=June 3rd.=
+
+      _I am black . . . as the tents of Kedar. Song of Sol. i.
+      5._
+
+      _I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. Song
+      of Sol. vii. 10._
+
+Nothing humbles the soul like sacred and intimate communion with the
+Lord; yet there is a sweet joy in feeling that _He_ knows _all_, and,
+notwithstanding, loves us still.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=June 4th.=
+
+      _David enquired of the Lord. 2 Sam. v. 19._
+
+Christian, if thou wouldst know the path of duty, take God for thy
+compass; if thou wouldst steer thy ship through the dark billows, put
+the tiller into the hand of the Almighty. Many a rock might be escaped
+if we would let our Father take the helm; many a shoal or quicksand we
+might well avoid if we would leave it to His sovereign will to choose
+and to command. The Puritan said, "As sure as ever a Christian carves
+for himself he'll cut his own fingers." "I will instruct thee and teach
+thee in the way which thou shalt go," is God's promise to His people.
+Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him and say, "Lord, what wilt
+thou have me to do?" Leave not thy chamber this morning without
+_enquiring of the Lord_.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=June 5th.=
+
+      _A certain man . . . who never had walked . . . heard
+      Paul speak: who . . . perceiving that he had faith to
+      be healed, said . . . Stand upright on thy feet. And he
+      leaped and walked. Acts xiv. 8, 9, 10._
+
+Where true faith is, it will induce obedience and where it does induce
+obedience, it will always, in one form or another, bring a
+blessing.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=June 6th.=
+
+      _Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord . . . I know that
+      . . . whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it
+      thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise
+      again. Martha saith unto Him, I know that he shall
+      rise again in the resurrection at the last day. John
+      xi. 21, 22, 23, 24._
+
+Beware, in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by
+unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect
+unexpected things, _above all that_ we ask or think. Each time you
+intercede, be quiet first and worship God in His glory. Think of what He
+can do, of how He delights to hear Christ, of your place in Christ; and
+expect great things.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=June 7th.=
+
+      _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
+      put on Christ. Gal. iii. 27._
+
+Not simply the righteousness of our Savior, not simply the beauty of His
+holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment.
+The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a
+Christ-bearer but a Christ-wearer. We are so to enter into Him by
+communion, to be so endued with His presence, and embued with His Spirit
+that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments
+when they look upon our bodies.--=A. J. Gordon.=
+
+
+=June 8th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt never wash my feet. John xiii. 8._
+
+Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to
+bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine
+humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and
+will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed.
+The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fulness of God,
+knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride
+or for self.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=June 9th.=
+
+      _Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain
+      thee. Psa. lv. 22._
+
+He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself with an uneasy
+burden. The fear of what _may_ come, expectation of what _will_ come,
+desire of what will _not_ come, and the inability to redress all these,
+must needs bring him continual torment. _I_ will cast my cares upon
+_God_: He hath bidden me. They cannot hurt Him: He can redress
+them.--_Hall._
+
+
+=June 10th.=
+
+     _Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . Thou
+     wicked and slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 21, 26._
+
+God holds us responsible not for what we _have_, but for what we _might
+have_; not for what we _are_, but for what we _might_ be.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=June 11th.=
+
+      _Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship.
+      Matt. xiv. 22._
+
+Jesus _constrained_ them to go! One would think that if ever there was
+the certain promise of success in a mission, it was here. Surely, here,
+if anywhere, a triumphant issue might have been confidently predicted;
+and yet here, more than anywhere, there was seeming failure. He sent
+them out on a voyage, and they met such a storm as they had never yet
+experienced.
+
+Let me ponder this, for it has been so with me, too. I have sometimes
+felt myself impelled to act by an influence which seemed above
+me--constrained to put to sea. The belief that I was constrained gave me
+confidence, and I was sure of a calm voyage. But the result was outward
+failure. The calm became a storm; the sea raged, the winds roared, the
+ship tossed in the midst of the waves, and my enterprise was wrecked ere
+it could reach the land.
+
+Was, then, my divine command a delusion?
+
+Nay; nor yet was my mission a failure. He did send me on that voyage,
+but He did not send me for _my_ purpose. He had one end and I had
+another. My end was the outward calm; His was my meeting with the storm.
+My end was to gain the harbor of a material rest; His was to teach me
+there is a rest even on the open sea.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=June 12th.=
+
+      _Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman
+      that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
+      word of truth. 2 Tim. ii. 15._
+
+Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work.--_Charles Kingsley._
+
+
+=June 13th.=
+
+      _Come out from among them, and be ye separate. 2 Cor.
+      vi. 17._
+
+With all the world in his choice, God placed His ancient people in a
+very remarkable situation. On the north they were walled in by the snowy
+ranges of Lebanon; a barren desert formed their eastern boundary; far to
+the south stretched a sterile region, called the howling wilderness;
+while the sea--not then, as now, the highway of the nations,
+facilitating rather than impeding intercourse--lay on their west,
+breaking on a shore that had few harbors and no navigable rivers to
+invite the steps of commerce.
+
+May we not find a great truth in the very position in which God placed
+His chosen people? It certainly teaches us that to be holy, or
+sanctified, we must be a separate people--living in the world, but not
+of it--as oil, that may be mixed, but cannot be combined with
+water.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=June 14th.=
+
+      _I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
+      whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
+      this land. Gen. xxviii. 15._
+
+"With thee," companionship; "Keep thee," guardianship; "Bring thee,"
+guidance.
+
+
+=June 15th.=
+
+      _I have set thee . . . that thou shouldst be for
+      salvation unto the ends of the earth. Acts xiii. 47._
+
+      _Ye shall be witnesses unto me . . . unto the uttermost
+      parts of the earth. Acts i. 8._
+
+Men are questioning now, as they never have questioned before, whether
+Christianity is, indeed, the true religion which is to be the salvation
+of the world. Christian men, it is for us to give our bit of answer to
+that question. It is for us, in whom the Christian church is at this
+moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that the
+Christian faith, the Christian manhood can do that for the world which
+the world needs.
+
+You ask, "What can I do?"
+
+You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish a life so faithful
+to every duty, so ready for every service, so determined not to commit
+every sin, that the great Christian church shall be the stronger for
+your living in it, and the problem of the world be answered, and a
+certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed, phase of our
+humanity as it sees that new revelation of what Christianity
+is.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=June 16th.=
+
+      _I know whom I have believed. 2 Tim. i. 12._
+
+Personal acquaintance with Christ is a living thing. Like a tree that
+uses every hour for growth, it thrives in sunshine, it is refreshed by
+rain--even the storm drives it to fasten its grip more firmly in the
+earth for its support. So, troubled heart, in all experience, say, "This
+comes that I may make closer acquaintance with my Lord."--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 17th.=
+
+      _Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4._
+
+      _When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were
+      all with one accord in one place . . . and they were
+      all filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts ii. 1, 4._
+
+Obedience to a divine prompting transforms it into a permanent
+acquisition.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=June 18th.=
+
+      _We have known and believed the love that God hath to
+      us. 1 John iv. 16._
+
+The secret of walking closely with Christ, and working successfully for
+Him, is to fully realize that we are His beloved. Let us but feel that
+He has set His heart upon us, that He is watching us from those heavens
+with tender interest, that He is working out the mystery of our lives
+with solicitude and fondness, that He is following us day by day as a
+mother follows her babe in his first attempt to walk alone, that He has
+set His love upon us, and, in spite of ourselves, is working out for us
+His highest will and blessing, as far as we will let Him, and then
+nothing can discourage us. Our hearts will glow with responsive love.
+Our faith will spring to meet His mighty promises, and our sacrifices
+shall become the very luxuries of love for one so dear. This was the
+secret of John's spirit. "We have known and believed the love that God
+hath to us." And the heart that has fully learned this has found the
+secret of unbounded faith and enthusiastic service.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=June 19th.=
+
+      _Endure . . . as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim.
+      ii. 3._
+
+Life is not victory, but battle. Be patient a little longer. By and by,
+each in his turn, we shall hear the sunset gun.--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 20th.=
+
+      _Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me,
+      cannot be my disciple. Luke xiv. 27._
+
+There is always the shadow of the cross resting upon the Christian's
+path. Is that a reason why you should avoid or not undertake the duty?
+Have you made up your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere
+else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the cross? Is that
+your religion? The sooner you change it, the better. The religion of the
+Lord Jesus Christ is the religion of the cross, and unless we take up
+our cross, we can never follow Him.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=June 21st.=
+
+      _These . . . have turned the world upside down. Acts
+      xvii. 6._
+
+The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the
+world next to the might of God.--_Pascal._
+
+
+=June 22nd.=
+
+      _What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know
+      hereafter. John xiii. 7._
+
+God keeps a school for His children here on earth and one of His best
+teachers is Disappointment. My friend, when you and I reach our Father's
+house, we shall look back and see that the sharp-voiced, rough; visaged
+teacher, Disappointment, was one of the best guides to train us for it.
+He gave us hard lessons; he often used the rod; he often led us into
+thorny paths; he sometimes stripped off a load of luxuries; but that
+only made us travel the freer and the faster on our heavenward way. He
+sometimes led us down into the valley of the death-shadow; but never did
+the promises read so sweetly as when spelled out by the eye of faith in
+that very valley. Nowhere did he lead us so often, or teach us such
+sacred lessons, as at the cross of Christ. Dear, old, rough-handed
+teacher! We will build a monument to thee yet, and crown it with
+garlands, and inscribe on it: _Blessed be the memory of
+Disappointment!_--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=June 23rd.=
+
+      _As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii.
+      25._
+
+      _I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
+      me. Phil. iv. 13._
+
+He will not impose upon you one needless burden. He will not exact more
+than He knows your strength will bear. He will ask no Peter to come to
+Him on the water, unless He impart at the same time strength and support
+on the unstable waves. He will not ask you to draw water if the well is
+too deep, or to withdraw the stone if too heavy. But neither at the
+same time will He admit as an impossibility that which, as a free and
+responsible agent, it is in your power to avert. He will not regard as
+your misfortune what is your crime.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=June 24th.=
+
+      _Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Acts
+      viii. 21._
+
+The worst of all mockeries is a religion that leaves the heart
+unchanged: a religion that has _everything_ but the love of Christ
+enshrined in the soul.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=June 25th.=
+
+      _The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
+      for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii.
+      2._
+
+We have such a nice little quiet, shady corner in the vineyard, down
+among the tender grapes, with such easy little weedings and waterings to
+attend to. And then the Master comes and draws us out into the thick of
+the work, and puts us in a part of the field where we never should have
+thought of going, and puts larger tools into our hands, that we may do
+more at a stroke. And we know we are not sufficient for these things,
+and the very tools seem too heavy for us, and the glare too dazzling and
+the vines too tall. Ah! but would we dally, go back? He would not be in
+the shady corner with us now; for when He put us forth He went before
+us, and it is only by closer following that we can abide with
+Him.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=June 26th.=
+
+      _Small things. Zech. iv. 10._
+
+It is the little words you speak, the little thoughts you think, the
+little things you do or leave undone, the little moments you waste or
+use wisely, the little temptations which you yield to or overcome--the
+little things of every day that are making or marring your future
+life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 27th.=
+
+      _Be perfect, be of good comfort. 2 Cor. xiii. 11._
+
+A glance at the words is enough to make us feel how contradictory they
+are. _Be perfect_--that is a word that strikes us with despair; at once
+we feel how far away we are from our own poor ideal, and alas! how much
+further from God's ideal concerning us. _Be of good comfort_--ah, that
+is very different! That seems to say, "Do not fret; do not fear. If you
+are not what you would be, you must be thankful for what you are."
+
+Now the question is this--How can these two be reconciled?
+
+It is only the religion of Jesus Christ that reconciles them. He stands
+in our midst, and with the right hand of His righteousness He pointeth
+us upward, and saith, "Be perfect." There is no resting-place short of
+that. Yet with the left hand of His love He doth encompass us, as He
+saith, "Soul, be of good comfort; for that is what I came to do for
+thee."--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=June 28th.=
+
+      _Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is
+      in heaven is perfect. Matt. v. 48._
+
+Seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit, let us aim at perfection. Let every
+day see some sin crucified, some battle fought, some good done, some
+victory won; let every fall be followed by a rise, and every step gained
+become, not a resting-place, but a new starting-point for further and
+higher progress.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=June 29th.=
+
+      _Sleep on now, and take your rest. Mark xiv. 41._
+
+Never did that sacred opportunity to watch with Christ return to His
+disciples. Lost then, it was lost forever. And now when Jesus is still
+beholding the travail of His soul in the redemption of the world, if you
+fail to be with Him watching for souls as they that must give account,
+remember that the opportunity will never return. "Watch, therefore,"
+says your Lord, "lest coming suddenly, He may find you sleeping."--_A.
+J. Gordon._
+
+
+=June 30th.=
+
+      _Let us not sleep, as do others. 1 Thess. v. 6._
+
+There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest,
+let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the
+ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the
+Celestial City, said to themselves:
+
+"To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse."
+
+Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone are very liable to grow
+drowsy. Hold Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, and
+refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to
+heaven.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JULY]
+
+
+=July 1st.=
+
+      _He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear
+      not. Rev. i. 17._
+
+One of Wellington's officers, when commanded to go on some perilous
+duty, lingered a moment as if afraid, and then said:
+
+"Let me have one clasp of your all-conquering hand before I go; and then
+I can do it."
+
+Seek the clasp of Christ's hand before every bit of work, every hard
+task, every battle, every good deed. Bend your head in the dewy
+freshness of every morning, ere you go forth to meet the day's duties
+and perils, and wait for the benediction of Christ, as He lays His hands
+upon you. They are hands of blessing. Their touch will inspire you for
+courage and strength and all beautiful and noble living.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=July 2nd.=
+
+      _Being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the
+      things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Acts i. 3._
+
+This lingering for forty days is the crowning proof of Christ's tender
+regard for His little flock. He who had laid down His life for them is
+loath to leave them. Though they had forsaken Him, and doubted Him, they
+had not wearied, much less had they worn out, His love. He stays to look
+again, and yet again, and yet again, upon them, as if turning back and
+lingering to bless them. It is all of a piece with His life of love.
+Everywhere He meets them without a touch of upbraiding, without
+recalling a single memory of all His bitter suffering, revealing Himself
+to the disciples with a tenderness and blessedness indescribably
+beautiful.
+
+How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene's broken heart? He must
+linger till poor Peter can venture near to have his forgiveness assured.
+He must stay to strengthen Thomas' faith. He must tarry with them till
+He has made them feel that He is just the same friendly, brotherly Jesus
+that He has ever been, caring for them in their work, watching them with
+a yearning pity, stooping to kindle a fire for their warmth, and to cook
+the fish for their meal, and then to bid them come and dine.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=July 3rd.=
+
+      _Jesus, . . . being wearied with His journey, sat thus
+      on the well. . . . (For His disciples were gone away unto
+      the city to buy meat.) . . . And many of the Samaritans
+      of that city believed on Him for the saying of the
+      woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I
+      did. John iv. 6, 8, 39._
+
+The bits of wayside work are very sweet. Perhaps the odd bits, when
+all is done, will really come to more than the seemingly greater
+pieces! . . . It is nice to know that the King's servants are always
+really on duty, even while some can only stand and wait.--_Frances
+Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=July 4th.=
+
+      _Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you . . .
+      let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
+      afraid. John xiv. 27._
+
+Dark hours come to us all; and if we have no clew to a peace that can
+pass unbroken through their murky gloom, we shall be in a state of
+continual dread. Any stone flung by a chance passer-by may break the
+crystal clearness of the Lake of Peace and send disturbing ripples
+across it, unless we have learnt to trust in the perpetual presence of
+Him who can make and keep a "great calm" within the soul. Only let
+nothing come to you which you shall not instantly hand over to Him--all
+petty worries, all crushing difficulties, all inability to believe.--_F.
+B. Meyer._
+
+
+=July 5th.=
+
+      _Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi. Gen. xxv. 11._
+
+Isaac dwelt there, and made the well of the living and all-seeing God
+his constant source of supply. The usual tenor of a man's life, the
+_dwelling_ of his soul, is the true test of his state. Let us learn to
+live in the presence of the living God. Let us pray the Holy Spirit that
+this day, and every other day, we may feel, "Thou God seest me." May the
+Lord Jehovah be as a well to us, delightful, comforting, unfailing,
+springing up unto eternal life. The bottle of the creature cracks and
+dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails. Happy is he who
+dwells at the well, and so has abundant and constant supplies near at
+hand! Glorious Lord, constrain us that we may never leave Thee, but
+dwell by the well of the living God!--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=July 6th.=
+
+      _Judas Iscariot . . . was a thief, and had the bag, and
+      bore what was put therein. John xii. 4, 6._
+
+      _Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8._
+
+Ah, but if we should go thoroughly into this matter, should we not
+probably find that many of us are guilty, in some modified and yet
+sufficiently alarming sense, of treachery to the poor? Are we not, some
+of us, sent to them with benefactions which never reach them, and are
+only unconscious of guilt because so long accustomed to look upon the
+goods as bestowed on us, whereas the light of God's word would plainly
+reveal upon those goods the names of the poor and needy?--_George
+Bowen._
+
+
+=July 7th.=
+
+      _Let every man take heed how he buildeth. 1 Cor. iii.
+      10._
+
+Our business is not to build quickly, but to build upon a right
+foundation, and in a right spirit. Life is more than a mere competition
+as between man and man; it is not who can be done first, but who can
+work best; it is not who can rise highest in the shortest time, but who
+is working most patiently and lovingly in accordance with the designs of
+God.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=July 8th.=
+
+      _As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii.
+      25._
+
+No day without its duty; no duty without strength to perform
+it.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 9th.=
+
+      _Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
+      Gen. xxviii. 16._
+
+"Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it not." My soul, this is
+also thine experience! How often hast thou said in thy sorrow, "Verily
+thou art a God that hidest Thyself!" How often hast thou slept for very
+heaviness of heart, and desired not to wake again! And when thou didst
+wake again, lo, the darkness was all a dream! Thy vision of yesterday
+was a delusion. God had been with thee all the night with that radiance
+which has no need of the sun.
+
+O my soul, it is not only after the future thou must aspire; thou must
+aspire to see the glory of thy past. Thou must find the glory of that
+way by which thy God has led thee, and be able even of thy sorrow to
+say, "This was the gate of heaven!"--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=July 10th.=
+
+      _My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John
+      iv. 34._
+
+The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an
+unsurrendered will.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=July 11th.=
+
+      _Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. 2
+      Pet. i. 5._
+
+You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by
+gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others'
+faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and
+strong; honor that; rejoice in it, and, as you can, try to imitate it;
+and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time
+comes.--_John Ruskin._
+
+
+=July 12th.=
+
+      _Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon
+      my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song
+      of Sol. iv. 16._
+
+Sometimes God sends severe blasts of trial upon His children to develop
+their graces. Just as torches burn most brightly when swung violently to
+and fro; just as the juniper plant smells sweetest when flung into the
+flames; so the richest qualities of a Christian often come out under the
+north wind of suffering and adversity. Bruised hearts often emit the
+fragrance that God loveth to smell. Almost every true believer's
+experience contains the record of trials which were sent for the purpose
+of shaking the spice tree.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=July 13th.=
+
+      _Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon
+      my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song
+      of Sol. iv. 16._
+
+There are two winds mentioned in this beautiful prayer. God may send
+either or both, as seemeth Him good. He may send the north wind of
+conviction, to bring us to repentance, or He may send the south wind of
+love, to melt us into gratitude and holy joy. If we often require the
+sharp blasts of trial to develop our graces, do we not also need the
+warm south breezes of His mercy? Do we not need the new sense of
+Christ's presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost? Do we
+not need to be melted, yes, to be overpowered by the love of
+Jesus?--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=July 14th.=
+
+      _Behold the man! John xix. 5._
+
+"Behold the man!" was Pilate's jeer. That is what all the ages have been
+doing since, and the vision has grown more and more glorious. As they
+have looked, the crown of thorns has become a crown of golden radiance,
+and the cast-off robe has glistened like the garments He wore on the
+night of the transfiguration. Martyrs have smiled in the flames at that
+vision. Sinners have turned at it to a new life. Little children have
+seen it, and have had awakened by it dim recollections of their
+heaven-home. Toward it the souls of men yearn ever.--_Robert E. Speer._
+
+
+=July 15th.=
+
+      _He (John) saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two
+      disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
+      John i. 36, 37._
+
+To be a Christian means to know the presence of a true personal Christ
+among us, and to follow.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=July 16th.=
+
+      _Ye shall not eat of it. Gen. iii. 3._
+
+The Sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge before the tree of
+life. Life must ever be first. Knowing and not being, hearing and not
+doing, admiring and not possessing, all are light without
+life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 17th.=
+
+      _Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
+      perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4._
+
+Are you where God would have you be? If not, come out, and at once, for
+you certainly ought not to be there. If you are, then be afraid to
+complain of circumstances which God has ordained on purpose to work out
+in you the very image and likeness of His Son.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 18th.=
+
+      _Sow beside all waters. Isa. xxxii. 20._
+
+Never mind whereabouts your work is. Never mind whether it be visible or
+not. Never mind whether your name is associated with it. You may never
+see the issues of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you
+cannot see results here in the hot working day, the cool evening hours
+are drawing near, when you may rest from your labors and then they will
+follow you. So do your duty, and trust God to give the seed you sow "a
+body as it hath pleased Him,"--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=July 19th.=
+
+      _Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Psa. cxix.
+      117._
+
+Do not spoil the chime of this morning's bells by ringing one half a
+peal! Do not say, "Hold thou me up," and stop there, or add, "But all
+the same I shall stumble and fall!" Finish the peal with God's own
+music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your mouth: "Hold
+thou me up, _and I shall be safe!_"--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=July 20th.=
+
+      _Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy.
+      Matt. viii. 6._
+
+We, in this age of the church, are in the position of that sick servant
+at Capernaum. To the eye of sense we are separated from the Savior. We
+see Him not--we can touch Him not--the hand cannot steal amid the crowd
+to catch His garment hem--we cannot hear His loved footsteps as of old
+on our threshold; but faith penetrates the invisible; the
+messenger--prayer--meets Him in the streets of the New Jerusalem; and
+faith and prayer together, the twin delegates from His church below, He
+has never yet sent empty away.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=July 21st.=
+
+      _Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:
+      for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and
+      to do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13._
+
+What a staggering weight of thought is excited by these words! Stay, my
+soul, and wonder that the Eternal God should stoop to work within thy
+narrow limits. Is it not a marvel indeed, that He, whom the heavens
+cannot contain, and in whose sight they are not clean, should trouble
+Himself to work on such material, so unpromising, and amidst
+circumstances so uncongenial?
+
+How careful should we be to make Him welcome, and to throw no hindrance
+in His way! How eager to garner up all the least movements of His
+gracious operation, as the machinist conserves the force of his engine;
+and as the goldsmith, with miserly care, collects every flake of gold
+leaf! Surely we shall be sensible of the _fear_ of holy reverence and
+the _trembling_ of eager anxiety; as we "work out," into daily act and
+life, all that God our Father is "working in."--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=July 22nd.=
+
+     _. . . Sinners of whom I am chief. . . . Now unto the
+     King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
+     be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Tim. i.
+     15, 17._
+
+Only those who have struck the deepest note of penitence can reach the
+highest note of praise.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=July 23rd.=
+
+      _Blessed is the man . . . that keepeth the Sabbath. Isa.
+      lvi. 2._
+
+The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into which we deposit one
+day in seven to be repaid in the autumn of life with compound
+interest.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 24th.=
+
+      _Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12._
+
+The world wants men who are saved from secret faults. The world can put
+on an outside goodness and go very far in uprightness and morality, and
+it expects that a Christian shall go beyond it, and be free from secret
+faults. A little crack will spoil the ring of the coin. . . . The world
+expects, and rightly, that the Christian should be more gentle, and
+patient, and generous, than he who does not profess to be a disciple of
+the Lord Jesus. For the sake of those who take their notion of religion
+from our lives, we need to put up this prayer earnestly, "Cleanse thou
+me from secret faults."--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 25th.=
+
+      _Do thou that which is good. 2 Kings x. 5._
+
+Keep as few good intentions hovering about as possible. They are like
+ghosts haunting a dwelling. The way to lay them is to find bodies for
+them. When they are embodied in substantial deeds they are no longer
+dangerous.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=July 26th.=
+
+      _Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
+      Savior, Jesus Christ. 2 Pet. iii. 18._
+
+Grace has its dawn as well as day; grace has its green blade, and
+afterwards its ripe corn in the ear; grace has its babes and its men in
+Christ. With God's work there, as with all His works, "in all places of
+His dominion," progress is both the prelude and the path to perfection.
+Therefore we are exhorted to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our
+Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to go on to perfection, saying with Paul,
+"I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do,
+forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those
+things which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the
+high calling of God in Christ Jesus."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=July 27th.=
+
+      _Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived,
+      and by it slew me. Rom. vii. 11._
+
+Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin. Take heed lest thou
+fall by little and little. Sin, a _little_ thing? Is it not a poison?
+Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes
+spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which
+wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? Will not continual
+droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the
+Redeemer's head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made _Him_ suffer
+anguish, bitterness and woe. Could you weigh the least sin in the scales
+of eternity, you would fly from it as from a serpent, and abhor _the
+least appearance of evil_. Look upon all sin as that which crucified the
+Savior, and you will see it to be "exceeding sinful."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=July 28th.=
+
+      _Your heavenly Father knoweth. Matt. vi. 32._
+
+The Master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.
+Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and
+weighs them where others only measure. Your Father! Think how great
+store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy
+and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed
+relationship, and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your
+own.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 29th.=
+
+      _Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
+      Col. iii. 3._
+
+It is neither talent, nor power, nor gifts that do the work of God, but
+it is that which lies within the power of the humblest; it is the
+simple, earnest life hid with Christ in God.--_F. W. Robertson._
+
+
+=July 30th.=
+
+      _The mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no
+      wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do
+      with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith
+      unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you, do
+      it. John ii. 3, 4, 5._
+
+In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in putting the matter
+into the Lord's hand, and leaving it there. He knows our sorrows, and,
+if He sees it is good for us that the water should be turned into wine,
+He will do it. It is not for us to dictate: He sees what is best for us.
+When we ask for prosperity, perhaps the thing which we should have is
+trial. When we want to be relieved of a "thorn in the flesh," He knows
+what we should have is an apprehension of the fact that His grace is
+sufficient for us. So we are put into His school, and have to learn the
+lessons He has to teach us.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=July 31st.=
+
+      _Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
+      fall. 1 Cor x. 12._
+
+Angels fell in heaven, Adam in paradise, Peter in Christ's
+presence.--_Theophilus Polwheile._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: AUGUST]
+
+
+=August 1st.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+The greatest and the best talent that God gives to any man or woman in
+this world is the talent of prayer. And the best usury that any man or
+woman brings back to God when He comes to reckon with them at the end
+of this world is a life of prayer. And those servants best put their
+Lord's money to the exchangers who rise early and sit late, as long as
+they are in this world, ever finding out, and ever following after
+better and better methods of prayer, and ever forming more secret, more
+steadfast, and more spiritually fruitful habits of prayer, till they
+literally pray without ceasing, and till they continually strike out
+into new enterprises in prayer, and new achievements, and new
+enrichments.--_Alex. Whyte._
+
+
+=August 2nd.=
+
+      _He entered into one of the ships . . . and . . . sat
+      down. Luke v. iii._
+
+When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo
+is in the hold, _not in the heart_. Cares and gains, fears and losses,
+yesterday's failure and today's success do not thrust themselves in
+between us and His presence. The heart cleaves to _Him_. "Goodness and
+mercy shall _follow_ me," sang the psalmist. Alas, when the goodness and
+mercy come before us, and our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is
+the blessed order--the Lord ever first, I following Him, His goodness
+and mercy following me.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=August 3rd.=
+
+      _Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
+      light. Eph. v. 8._
+
+We do not realize the importance of the unconscious part of our life
+ministry. It goes on continually. In every greeting we give to another
+on the street, in every moment's conversation, in every letter we write,
+in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence that goes
+from us that often reaches further, and leaves a deep impression than
+the things themselves that we are doing at the time. It is not so much
+what we _do_ in this world as what we _are_, that tells in spiritual
+results and impressions.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=August 4th.=
+
+      _Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. ii.
+      10._
+
+Let us ask Him to work in us to _will_ those good works, so that our
+_will_, without being impaired in its free operation, may be permeated
+and moulded by His will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without
+displacing it. And let us also expect that He will infuse into us
+sufficient strength that we may be able to _do_ His will unto all
+pleasing. Thus, day by day, our life will be a manifestation of those
+holy volitions and lovely deeds which shall attest the indwelling and
+inworking of God. And men shall see our good works, and glorify our
+Father which is in heaven.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=August 5th.=
+
+      _Go in this thy might . . . have not I sent thee? Judges
+      vi. 14._
+
+God never leaves His child to fail when in the path of
+obedience.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=August 6th.=
+
+      _Set your affection on things above, not on things on
+      the earth. Col. iii. 2._
+
+      _Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy
+      might. Eccles. ix. 10._
+
+If we are to live separate from the world, how, since men only do well
+what they do with a will, are we, with affections fixed on things above,
+to perform aright the secular, ordinary duties of life? If our hearts
+are engrossed with heavenly things, how are we to obey this other, and
+equally divine, commandment, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
+with thy might"?
+
+The two are perfectly consistent. Man standing between the celestial and
+terrestrial worlds is related to both; and resembling neither a flower,
+which, springing from the dust and returning to it, belongs altogether
+to the earth, nor a star which, shining far remote from its lower
+sphere, belongs altogether to the heavens, our hearts may be fitly
+likened to the rainbow that, rising into heaven but resting on earth,
+is connected both with the clods of the valley and the clouds of the
+sky.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=August 7th.=
+
+      _Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
+      so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
+      race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. Heb.
+      xii. 1, 2._
+
+Think, as you sit here, of anything that you are doing that is wrong, of
+any habit of your life, of your self-indulgence, or of that great,
+pervasive habit of your life which makes you a creature of the present
+instead of the eternities, a creature of the material earth instead of
+the glorious skies. Ask yourself of any habit that belongs to your own
+personal life, and bring it face to face with Jesus Christ.--_Phillips
+Brooks._
+
+
+=August 8th.=
+
+      _They took knowledge of them, that they had been with
+      Jesus. Acts iv. 13._
+
+If I think of the world, I get the impress of the world; if I think of
+my trials and sorrows, I get the impress of my trials and sorrows; if I
+think of my failures, I get the impress of my failures; if I think of
+Christ, I get the impress of Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=August 9th.=
+
+      _Ye call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so
+      I am. John xiii. 13. (R. V. margin)._
+
+How wonderful a Teacher we have! Sometimes we seek Him in the house, but
+He is not there. We go forth seeking Him and find Him perhaps in the
+wilderness or on a mountain praying, or leading some poor blind man by
+the hand, or eating with publicans or sinners, or asleep in a storm or
+conversing with a Samaritan woman, or surrounded by wrathful men, or
+bearing a cross. It is not merely His words that instruct. His place,
+His occupation, His companions, His environment, His garment, His
+silence, His submission--all teem with instruction. And they that learn
+of Him are made like unto Him.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=August 10th.=
+
+      _The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the
+      world. 1 John iv. 14._
+
+It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His
+Father's permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of
+the Father that He might be the Savior of men. . . . Didst thou ever
+consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father
+equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? If not, be this thy
+day's meditation. The _Father_ sent Him! Contemplate that subject. Think
+how Jesus works what the _Father_ wills. In the wounds of the dying
+Savior see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be
+also connected with the eternal, ever-blessed God.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=August 11th.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall change their
+      strength. Isa. xl. 31. (R. V.)_
+
+        Lord, what a change within us one short hour
+        Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!
+        What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!
+        What parched grounds refresh as with a shower!
+        We kneel--and all around us seems to lower.
+        We rise--and all the distant and the near
+        Stand forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.
+        We kneel--how weak: we rise--how full of power.
+
+        Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong
+        Or others--that we are not always strong;
+        That we are ever overborne with care;
+        That we should ever weak or heartless be,
+        Anxious or troubled, while with _us_ is prayer,
+        And joy and strength and courage are with _Thee_?
+                                       --_Archbishop Trench._
+
+
+=August 12th.=
+
+      _As for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee
+      so to do. Deut. xviii. 14._
+
+What a stepping-stone! We give thanks, often with a tearful, doubtful
+voice, for our spiritual mercies _positive_; but what an almost infinite
+field there is for mercies _negative_! We cannot even imagine all that
+God has suffered us _not_ to do, _not_ to be.--_Frances Ridley
+Havergal._
+
+
+=August 13th.=
+
+     _Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was
+     moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their
+     sick. . . . And when He had sent the multitudes away,
+     He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the
+     evening was come He was there alone. Matt. xiv. 14, 23._
+
+Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character? Are
+our _public_ duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the
+world, finely tempered and hallowed by a _secret_ walk with God? If the
+world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares, would it trace us
+to our family altars and our closet devotions?
+
+Action and meditation are the two great components of Christian life,
+and the perfection of the religious character is to find the two in
+unison and harmony.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=August 14th.=
+
+      _Leaving you an example, that ye should follow His
+      steps. 1 Pet. ii. 21. (R. V.)_
+
+I have long since ceased to pray, "Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost
+world!" I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord
+rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, "I have
+had compassion upon a lost world, and now it is for you to have
+compassion."--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=August 15th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex. xx. 3._
+
+If you find yourself beginning to love any pleasure better than your
+prayers, any book better than your Bible, any house better than God's,
+any table better than the Lord's, any person better than your Savior,
+any one better than your soul, a present indulgence better than the hope
+of heaven--take alarm!--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=August 16th.=
+
+      _Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1
+      Cor. xi. 1._
+
+When in the Mexican war the troops were wavering, a general rose in his
+stirrups and dashed into the enemy's line, shouting, "Men, follow!"
+They, seeing his courage and disposition, dashed on after him, and
+gained the victory.
+
+What men want to rally them for God is an example to lead them. All your
+commands to others to advance amount to nothing so long as you stay
+behind. To effect them aright, you need to start for heaven yourself,
+looking back only to give the stirring cry of "Men, follow!"--_T. DeWitt
+Talmage._
+
+
+=August 17th.=
+
+      _Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx.
+      19._
+
+There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of
+sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in
+despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he
+was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood, which was
+destined for the fire. He obeyed, and produced a masterpiece from a log
+of common fire-wood.
+
+Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find
+sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common
+logs that we burn.--_Orison Swett Marden._
+
+
+=August 18th.=
+
+      _My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
+      made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9._
+
+God's way of answering His people's prayers is not by removing the
+pressure, but by increasing their strength to bear it. The pressure is
+often the fence between the narrow way of life and the broad road to
+ruin; and if our Heavenly Father were to remove it, it might be at the
+sacrifice of heaven. Oh, if God had removed that thorny fence in answer,
+often to earnest prayers, how many of us would now be castaways! How the
+song of many a saint now in glory would be hushed! How many a harp would
+be unstrung! How many a place in the mansions of the redeemed would be
+unfilled! If God answered all the prayers we put up to heaven, we should
+need no other scourge. Blessed it is that we have One who is too loving
+to grant what we too often so rashly ask.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=August 19th.=
+
+      _Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
+      fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more
+      can ye, except ye abide in me. John xv. 4._
+
+From moment to moment, and from hour to hour, the inner nature of man is
+to be continuously sustained with the life of God. Only as I am
+constantly receiving His fulness into my emptiness am I really living in
+the true, full, deep sense of the word, that life of eternity, which is
+my privilege now, and will be my glory hereafter.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=August 20th.=
+
+      _By faith Noah . . . prepared an ark to the saving of
+      his house. Heb. xi. 7._
+
+What a humble, what a modest sphere for the exercise of faith! One would
+have said that the purpose was quite disproportionate to the work. The
+ark was a great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for? To save his
+own family. Is so narrow a sphere worthy to be the object of faith? Is
+so commonplace a scene as the life of the family circle fit to be a
+temple for the service of God? . . . My soul, when thou hast finished
+thy prayers and ended thy meditations, do not say that thou hast left
+the house of God. God's house shall to thee be everywhere, and thine own
+house shall be a part of it. Thou shalt feel that all the duties of
+this place are consecrated; that it is none other than the house of God
+and one of the gates to heaven. Thou shalt feel that every one of its
+duties is an act of high communion. Therefore be it thine to make thy
+house _His_ house. Be it thine to consecrate each word and look and deed
+in the social life of home. Be it thine to build thine ark of refuge for
+the wants of common day; verily, thy labor of love shall be called an
+act of faith.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=August 21st.=
+
+      _We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
+      good works which God hath before ordained that we
+      should walk in them. Eph. ii. 10._
+
+No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is
+always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.--_J. B.
+Lowell._
+
+
+=August 22nd.=
+
+      _He . . . began to wash the disciples' feet. John xiii.
+      5._
+
+We forget that Jesus Christ is the same to-day, when He is sitting on
+the throne, as He was yesterday, when He trod the pathway of our world.
+And in this forgetfulness how much we miss! What He was, that He is.
+What He said, that He says. The Gospels are simply specimens of the life
+that He is ever living; they are leaves torn out of the diary of His
+unchangeable Being. To-day He is engaged in washing the feet of His
+disciples, soiled with their wilderness journeyings. Yes, that charming
+incident is having its fulfilment in thee, my friend, if only thou dost
+not refuse the lowly loving offices of Him whom we call Master and Lord,
+but who still girds Himself and comes forth to serve. And we must have
+this incessant cleansing if we would keep right. It is not enough to
+look back to a certain hour when we first knelt at the feet of the Son
+of God for pardon; and heard Him say, "Thy sins, which are many, are all
+forgiven." We need daily, hourly cleansing--from daily, hourly sin.--_F.
+B. Meyer._
+
+
+=August 23rd.=
+
+      _I am the Lord, I change not. Mal. iii. 6._
+
+Our hope is not hung upon such untwisted thread as "I imagine so," or
+"it is likely"; but the cable, the strong rope of our fastened anchor,
+is the oath and promise of Him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is
+fastened with God's own hand and Christ's own strength to the strong
+stake of God's unchanging nature.--_William Rutherford._
+
+
+=August 24th.=
+
+      _I will cause the shower to come down in his season;
+      there shall be showers of blessing. Ezek. xxxiv. 26._
+
+What is thy _season_ this morning? Is it the season of drought? Then
+that is the season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and
+black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall
+thy strength be." "I will give thee _showers_ of blessing." The word is
+in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. All God's blessings
+go together, like links in a golden chain. If He gives converting grace,
+He will also give comforting grace. He will send "showers of blessings."
+Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a
+heavenly watering.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=August 25th.=
+
+      _Nevertheless, at thy word. Luke v. 5._
+
+Oh, what a blessed formula for us! This path of mine is dark,
+mysterious, perplexing; _nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will go forward.
+This trial of mine is cutting, sore for flesh and blood to bear. It is
+hard to breathe through a broken heart, Thy will be done. But,
+_nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will say, Even so, Father! This besetting
+habit, or infirmity, or sin of mine, is difficult to crucify. It has
+become part of myself--a second nature; to be severed from it would be
+like the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right
+eye; _nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will lay aside every weight; this
+idol I will utterly abolish. This righteousness of mine it is hard to
+ignore; all these virtues, and amiabilities, and natural graces, it is
+hard to believe that they dare not in any way be mixed up in the matter
+of my salvation; and that I am to receive all from first to last as the
+gift of God, through Jesus Christ my Lord. _Nevertheless, at Thy word_ I
+will count all but loss for the excellency of His knowledge.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=August 26th.=
+
+      _If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim.
+      ii. 12._
+
+The photographer must have a negative, as he calls it, in order to
+furnish you with a picture. Now, the earthly cross is the negative from
+which the heavenly crown is to be made; the suffering and sorrow of the
+present time determining the glory, honor and immortality of the life to
+come.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=August 27th.=
+
+      _The word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 1
+      Pet. i. 23._
+
+The Word abideth. The Jew hated it--but it lived on, while the veil was
+torn away from the shrine which the Shekinah had forsaken, and while
+Jerusalem itself was destroyed. The Greek derided it--but it has seen
+his philosophy effete and his Acropolis in ruins. The Romans threw it
+into the flames--but it rose from its ashes, and swooped down upon the
+falling eagle. The reasoner cast it into the furnace, which his own
+negligence had heated "seven times hotter than its wont"--but it came
+out without the smell of fire. The formalist fastened serpents around it
+to poison it--but it shook them off and felt no harm. The infidel cast
+it overboard in a tempest of sophistry and sarcasm--but it rode
+gallantly upon the crest of the proud waters. And it is living
+still--yet heard in the loudest swelling of the storm--it has been
+speaking all the while--it is speaking now!--_Punshon._
+
+
+=August 28th.=
+
+      _Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. Col. iii.
+      15._
+
+Years ago one of our fleets was terribly shattered by a violent
+gale--but it was found that some of the ships were unaffected by its
+violence. They were in what mariners call "the eye of the storm." While
+all around was desolation, they were safe. So it is with him who has the
+peace of God in his heart.--_Pilkington._
+
+
+=August 29th.=
+
+      _Ye serve the Lord Christ. Col. iii. 24._
+
+Our business as Christians is to serve the Lord in every business of
+life.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=August 30th.=
+
+      _Love not the world, neither the things that are in
+      the world. 1 John ii. 15._
+
+If you will go to the banks of a little stream, and watch the flies that
+come to bathe in it, you will notice that, while they plunge their
+_bodies_ into the water, they keep their _wings_ high out of the water;
+and, after swimming about a little while, they fly away with their wings
+unwet through the sunny air. Now, that is the lesson for us. Here we are
+immersed in the cares and business of the world; but let us keep the
+wings of our soul, our faith and our love, out of the world, that, with
+these unclogged, we may be ready to take our flight to heaven.--_J.
+Inglis._
+
+
+=August 31st.=
+
+      _I would have you without carefulness. 1 Cor. vii.
+      32._
+
+Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear.
+Rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you
+are, will deliver you out of them. He has kept you hitherto--do you but
+hold fast to His dear hand, and He will lead you safely through all
+things; and when you cannot stand, He will bear you in His arms. Do not
+look forward to what may happen to-morrow. The same everlasting Father
+who cares for you to-day will take care of you to-morrow, and every day.
+Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing
+strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious
+thoughts and imaginations.--_Francis de Sales._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: September]
+
+
+=September 1st.=
+
+      _Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be
+      inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.
+      Ezek. xxxvi. 37._
+
+Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history and you will
+find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded
+by supplication. Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes
+before the blessing _as the blessing's shadow_. When the sunlight of
+God's mercies rises upon our necessities it casts the shadow of prayer
+far down upon the plain. Or, to use another illustration, when God piles
+up a hill of mercies He Himself shines behind them, and He casts on our
+spirits the shadow of prayer so that we may rest certain, if we are much
+in prayer, our pleadings are the shadows of mercy. Prayer is thus
+connected with the blessing to show us the value of it.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=September 2nd.=
+
+      _Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season
+      we shall reap if we faint not. Gal. vi. 9._
+
+The hours of this present life are the ages in embryo of the life to
+come.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=September 3rd.=
+
+      _My presence shall go with thee. Ex. xxxiii. 14._
+
+We should never leave our prayer closets in the morning without having
+concentrated our thoughts deeply and intensely on the fact of the actual
+presence of God there with us, encompassing us, and filling the room as
+literally as it fills heaven itself. It may not lead to any distinct
+results at first, but, as we make repeated efforts to realize the
+presence of God, it will become increasingly real to us. And, as the
+habit grows upon us, when alone in a room, or when treading the sward of
+some natural woodland temple, or when pacing the stony street--in the
+silence of night, or amid the teeming crowds of daylight--we shall often
+find ourselves whispering the words, "Thou art near; thou art here, O
+Lord."--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=September 4th.=
+
+      _To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness.
+      Dan. ix. 9._
+
+As a spring lock closes itself, but cannot be unlocked without a key, so
+we ourselves may run into sin, but cannot return without the key of
+God's grace.--_Cawdray._
+
+
+=September 5th.=
+
+      _It is high time to awake out of sleep. Rom. xiii.
+      11._
+
+I have heard of a painter who loved to work by the morning light. He
+said that the colors were better understood by the light of the early
+day, and so he was wont to be in his studio waiting for the rising of
+the sun. Then every moment it grew lighter, and he found he could
+accomplish things which he could not reach if he waited till the day had
+advanced.
+
+Is there not work waiting for us--work that no one else can do--work,
+too, that the Master has promised to help us perform? Shall He come and
+find that we still sleep? Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when He
+appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited, looking and longing
+for the first gleam of day? Surely those of us who thus wait on the Lord
+shall renew our strength, and, eagle-like, rise to greet the
+Sun.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=September 6th.=
+
+      _The church of God, which He hath purchased with His
+      own blood. Acts xx. 28._
+
+Surely He may do what He will with His own. The price He has paid to
+make them His own is a sufficient guarantee that He will never make
+light of anything in which their welfare is at all concerned. We are
+precious to Him by the virtue of the blood which He has shed for us, and
+for Him to be found at any time wanting in solicitude for our happiness
+would be for Him to treat that blood of His as the sinners of this world
+treat it. The persuasion of Christ's love must be graven in our hearts
+so deeply that no semblance of indifference on His part will ever make
+the slightest impression upon us. This is the victory which overcometh
+the world.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=September 7th.=
+
+      _The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
+      believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the
+      power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. xv. 13._
+
+In spiritual as in earthly things there is great strength in hope, and,
+therefore, God's people are carefully to cultivate that grace. A
+well-grounded hope that, having been made new creatures in Jesus Christ,
+we are His; that with our names, though unknown to fame, written in the
+Book of Life, we have grace in possession and heaven in prospect; that
+after a few more brief years, pure as the angels that sing before the
+throne, we shall be brought with gladness into the palace of the King,
+to be like Christ and with Christ, seeing Him eye to eye and face to
+face--such hopes are powerful springs of action.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=September 8th.=
+
+      _He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it him, even
+      length of days or ever and ever. Psa. xxi. 4._
+
+When poor men make requests of us we usually answer them as the echo
+does the voice--the answer cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom
+find among men Jael's courtesy, giving milk to those that ask water,
+except it be as this was, an entangling benefit, the better to introduce
+a mischief. There are not many Naamans among us, that, when you beg of
+them one talent, will force you to take two; but God's answer to our
+prayers is like a multiplying glass, which renders the request much
+greater in the answer than it was in the prayer.--_Bishop Reynolds._
+
+
+=September 9th.=
+
+      _This beginning of miracles did Jesus. John ii. 11._
+
+It was out of the common thing that the precious thing was brought; and
+it is out of the common things of daily life, presented obediently to
+Jesus and laid at His feet, that He brings His own glorious gifts, so
+that our whole lives become one great sacrament.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=September 10th.=
+
+      _In the daytime . . . He led them with a cloud, and all
+      the night with a light of fire. Psa. lxxviii. 14._
+
+My day is my prosperity; it is the time when the sun of fortune is
+bright above me, and, therefore, it is the time when I need a shade. If
+my sunshine were not chequered I would forget Thee, O my God.
+
+But I have nights to meet as well as days. The night is my adversity; it
+is the time when the sun of fortune has gone down behind the hills, and
+I am left alone, and then it is, O my Father, that I need the light of
+Thy fire! My light of fire for the night is the vision of Calvary--the
+vision of Thy love in the Cross. I need the light of Thy fire "_all_ the
+night."--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=September 11th.=
+
+      _Now are we the sons of God: and it doth not yet
+      appear what we shall be; but we know that when He
+      shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see
+      Him as He is. 1 John iii. 2._
+
+"Now are we the sons of God." That is the pier upon one side of the
+gulf. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when He shall appear
+we shall be like Him." That is the pier on the other. How are the two to
+be connected? There is only one way by which the present sonship will
+blossom and fruit into the future perfect likeness, and that is, if we
+throw across the gulf, by God's help day by day, the bridge of growing
+likeness to Himself, and purity therefrom.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=September 12th.=
+
+      _Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. xx. 18._
+
+Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus
+here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not
+enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have
+been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was a going up to a triumph
+to be reached through defeat, a coronation to be attained through
+ignominy and humiliation.
+
+O believer, in your walk through the world to-day, be strengthened, be
+comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle of the Captain of your
+salvation thus going up to Jerusalem! And remember, in all those
+apparently _downward_ passages of life, where sorrow, and it may be
+death, lie before you, that all such descents, made or endured in the
+Spirit of Jesus, are really _upgoing_ steps, leading you to the mount of
+God and the resurrection glory.--_J. B. Stratton._
+
+
+=September 13th.=
+
+      _These were the potters, and those that dwelt among
+      plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for
+      his work. 1 Chron. iv. 23._
+
+Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell "with the King for His work." We
+may be in a very unlikely or unfavorable place for this; it may be in a
+little country life, with little enough to be seen of the "goings" of
+the King around us; it may be among hedges of all sorts, hindrances in
+all directions; it may be, furthermore, with our hands full of all
+manner of pottery for our daily task. No matter! The King who placed us
+"there" will come and dwell there with us; the hedges are all right, or
+He would soon do away with them; and it does not follow that what seems
+to hinder our way may not be for its very protection; and as for the
+pottery, why, this is just exactly what He has seen fit to put into our
+hands, and therefore it is, for the present, "His work."--_Frances
+Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=September 14th.=
+
+      I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which
+      thou shalt go; _I will guide thee with mine eye. Psa.
+      xxxii. 8._
+
+When God does the directing, our life is useful and full of promise,
+whatever it is doing; and discipline has its perfecting work.--_H. E.
+Cobb._
+
+
+=September 15th.=
+
+      _The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
+      minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.
+      Matt. xx. 28._
+
+We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of
+His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We are to live, like
+God, to bless others. This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This
+is what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the claim of His
+great love upon us.
+
+Do not sigh a poor assent to the truth of it, and then pass by
+neglectfully on the other side. Do not think about it and pray about it
+without even a passing hope that the prayer will be answered. Do not
+gather yourself up in great resolutions to be good and useful. Kneel in
+sight of the Crucified. In the cross of Christ spell out His great
+purpose and yearning love to men. Let the heart feel all the might of
+the appeal that comes to us from those torn hands and feet and bleeding
+brow, from all the dreadful shame and agony of our dear Lord. And,
+bought and bound by all this, surrender yourself to Him for His great
+purpose. Take Him as your strength for this life-work.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=September 16th.=
+
+      _Jesus . . . went about doing good. Acts x. 38._
+
+The finest of all fine arts is the art of doing good; and yet it is the
+least cultivated.--_T. DeWitt Talmage._
+
+
+=September 17th.=
+
+      _And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar],
+      Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her
+      hands. Gen. xvi. 9._
+
+SUBMISSION is a great Christian law, but we find it early in Genesis,
+early in the history of mankind, and angel-given.--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 18th.=
+
+      _Then spake Solomon . . . I have surely built thee an
+      house to dwell in. 1 Kings viii. 12, 13._
+
+Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would
+be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God's temple, let us
+note this; not by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ
+shall we draw men unto Him.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=September 19th.=
+
+      _I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa.
+      xlviii. 10._
+
+Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the
+flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no
+power? Let affliction come--God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest
+stride in at my door--but God is in the house already, and He has chosen
+me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude, but I have a balsam ready--God has
+chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears I know that He has
+"chosen" me. Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with thee. In all thy fiery
+trials His presence is both thy comfort and safety. He will never leave
+one whom He has chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with thee," is
+His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in the "furnace of
+affliction."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=September 20th.=
+
+      _Base things of the world and things which are
+      despised hath God chosen. 1 Cor. i. 28._
+
+In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen pictures not painted
+with the brush, but mosaics, which are made up of small pieces of stone,
+glass, or other material. The artist takes these little pieces, and,
+polishing and arranging them, he forms them into the grand and beautiful
+picture. Each individual part of the picture may be a little worthless
+piece of glass or marble or shell; but, with each in its place, the
+whole constitutes the masterpiece of art.
+
+So I think it will be with humanity in the hands of the great Artist.
+God is picking up the little worthless pieces of stone and brass that
+might be trodden under foot unnoticed, and is making of them His great
+masterpiece.--_Bishop Simpson._
+
+
+=September 21st.=
+
+      _Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His
+      presence with singing. Psa. c. 2._
+
+God wants our life to be a song. He has written the music for us in His
+Word and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in
+life. The things we ought to do are the notes set upon the staff. To
+make our life beautiful music we must be obedient and submissive. Any
+disobedience is the singing of a false note, and yields discord.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=September 22nd.=
+
+      _When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when
+      thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is
+      in secret. Matt. vi. 6._
+
+This is faith's stronghold; here she weapons herself for the daily
+conflict. Silence in that closet of prayer bespeaks death throughout all
+the house. When that door is suffered to rust on its hinges, and that
+chamber is deserted, then the heart-house is soon retaken by Satan, and
+evil spirits come in and dwell there.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=September 23rd.=
+
+      _Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Pet. i. 16._
+
+The highway of holiness is along the commonest road of life--along your
+very way. In wind and rain, no matter how it beats--it is only going
+hand in hand with Him.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=September 24th.=
+
+      _And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
+      thing which I do? Gen. xviii. 17._
+
+Abraham, in communion with God, knew long before Lot, in Sodom, of the
+destruction of that city. Oh for more communion!--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 25th.=
+
+      _The life which I now live in the flesh. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+I expect to pass through this world but once--therefore, if there be any
+kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human
+being, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not
+pass this way again.--_Marcus Aurelius._
+
+
+=September 26th.=
+
+      _So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
+      hearts unto wisdom. Psa. xc. 12._
+
+Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated:
+whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires
+to be taught this point of holy arithmetic--to number not his years, but
+his days. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously
+prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.--_Bishop Hall._
+
+
+=September 27th.=
+
+      _Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. i. 27._
+
+Religion is not the simple fire-escape that you build in anticipation of
+a possible danger, upon the outside of your dwelling, and leave there
+until danger comes. You go to it some morning when a fire breaks out in
+your house, and the poor old thing that you built up there, and thought
+that you could use some day, is so rusty and broken, and the weather has
+so beaten upon it and the sun so turned its hinges, that it will not
+work. That is the condition of a man who has built himself what seems a
+creed of faith, a trust in God in anticipation of the day when danger is
+to overtake him, and has said to himself, I am safe, for I will take
+refuge in it then. But religion is the house in which we live, it is the
+table at which we sit, it is the fireside at which we draw near, the
+room that arches its graceful and familiar presence over us; it is the
+bed on which we lie and think of the past, and anticipate the future,
+and gather our refreshment.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=September 28th.=
+
+      _Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4._
+
+Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of
+His promises.--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 29th.=
+
+      _This is the victory that overcometh the world, even
+      our faith. 1 John v. 4._
+
+The world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering me from seeing,
+loving, holding communion with, and serving my Father, God. I conquer it
+when I lay my hand upon it and force it to help me to get nearer Him, to
+get more like Him, to think oftener of Him, to do His will more gladly
+and more constantly. The one victory over the world is to bend it to
+serve me in the highest things--the attainment of a clearer vision of
+the divine nature, the attainment of a deeper love to God Himself, and a
+more glad consecration and service to Him. That is the victory--when you
+can make the world a ladder to lift you to God. When the world comes
+between you and God as an obscuring screen, it has conquered you. When
+the world comes between you and God as a transparent medium you have
+conquered it. To win victory is to get it beneath your feet and stand
+upon it, and reach up thereby to God.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=September 30th.=
+
+      _He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep
+      thee in all thy ways. Psa. xci. 11._
+
+Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no work too low,
+if it come in thy way, since God thinks so much of it as to send His
+angels to guard thee in it.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: October]
+
+
+=October 1st.=
+
+      _At Jesus' feet. Luke x. 39._
+
+At Jesus' feet--that is our place of privilege and of blessing, and here
+it is that we are to be educated and fitted for the practical duties of
+life. Here we are to renew our strength while we wait on Him, and to
+learn how to mount on wings as eagles; and here we are to become
+possessed of that true knowledge which is power. Here we are to learn
+how real work is to be done, and to be armed with the true motive power
+to do it. Here we are to find solace amidst both the trials of work--and
+they are not few--and the trials of life in general; and here we are to
+anticipate something of the blessedness of heaven amidst the days of
+earth; for to sit at His feet is indeed to be in heavenly places, and to
+gaze upon His glory is to do what we shall never tire of doing
+yonder.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=October 2nd.=
+
+      _God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
+      God, and God in him. 1 John iv. 16._
+
+_God is love_; and it is good, as it is true, to think that every
+sun-ray that touches the earth has the sun at the other end of it; so
+every bit of love upon God's earth has God at the other end of
+it.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+_October 3rd._
+
+      _They took knowledge of them that they had been with
+      Jesus. Acts iv. 13._
+
+A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read
+lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life
+of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions
+of His people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we should be,
+we would be pictures of Christ; yea, such striking likenesses of Him
+that the world would not have to hold us up by the hour together, and
+say, "Well, it seems somewhat of a likeness": but they would, when they
+once beheld us, exclaim, "He has been with Jesus; he has been taught of
+Him; he is like Him; he has caught the very idea of the holy Man of
+Nazareth, and he works it out in his life and every day
+actions."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=October 4th.=
+
+      _Be not afraid, only believe. Mark v. 36._
+
+Be not downcast if difficulties and trials surround you in your heavenly
+life. They may be purposely placed there by God to train and discipline
+you for higher developments of faith. If He calls you to "toiling in
+rowing," it may be to make you the hardier seaman, to lead you to lift
+up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and, above all, to
+drive you to a holier trust in Him who has the vessel and its destinies
+in His hand, and who, amid gathering clouds and darkened horizon and
+crested billows is ever uttering the mild rebuke to our
+misgivings--"Said I not unto thee, if thou wouldest believe, thou
+shouldst see the glory of God."--_Macduff._
+
+
+=October 5th.=
+
+      _Happy is the man whom God correcteth. Job v. 17._
+
+Happy, because the correction is designed to bring him into paths of
+blessedness and peace.
+
+Happy, because there is no unnecessary severity in it.
+
+Happy, because the chastisement is not so much against us, as against
+our most cruel enemies--our sins.
+
+Happy, because we have abundant words of consolation.
+
+Happy, because whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.
+
+Happy, because our light affliction is but for a moment.--_George
+Bowen._
+
+
+=October 6th.=
+
+      _When they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding
+      great joy. Matt. ii. 10._
+
+We who look for Jesus ought to be joyful; it is no credit to our Lord
+when we look as though we were seeking His grave. The dull looks of
+Christ's followers have injured Him in the sight of the world. Let us,
+then, smile as we go, for we have the star if we will look up and put
+ourselves in the right path.--_Thos. Champness._
+
+
+=October 7th.=
+
+      _When I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto
+      me. Micah vii. 8._
+
+If you are willing to choose the seeming darkness of faith instead of
+the illumination of reason, wonderful light will break out upon you from
+the Word of God.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=October 8th.=
+
+      _I (Daniel) was left alone, and saw this great vision.
+      Dan. x. 8._
+
+Solitude is the antechamber of God; only one step more and you can be
+in His immediate presence.--_Landor._
+
+
+=October 9th.=
+
+      _Come and dine. John xxi. 12._
+
+This morning the voice of the Beloved of our soul is heard giving us His
+invitation.
+
+"Children," He asks, "have ye any meat?"
+
+We answer, "No; of ourselves we have nothing but hunger and starvation.
+O God, we cannot feed ourselves!"
+
+Then it is that His own sweet voice replies, "Come and dine!"--_W. Hay
+Aitken._
+
+
+=October 10th.=
+
+      _O Lord God, Thou knowest! Ezek. xxxvii. 3._
+
+Here is the response of faith. "Thou knowest!"--what a pillow for the
+heart to repose upon! "Thou knowest!"--what few but comprehensive words
+to sum up and express the heart's difficulties and perplexities and
+trials. "Thou knowest!"--what an inexpressibly sweet resting-place in
+the midst of life's tumultuous heavings; in the midst of a sea that
+knows no calm; in the midst of a scene in which tossings to and fro are
+the hourly history! What an answer they contain for every heart that can
+find no words to express its big emotions; for a heart whose sorrows are
+too deep for language to find its way to God! Oh, that they were ever
+uppermost in the soul, as the response to every difficulty in our path!
+They are God's answer to everything we cannot fathom; God's answer for
+our hearts to rest upon, and our lips to utter, when every way is hedged
+up so that we cannot pass. "O Lord God, thou knowest!" Rest here,
+believer. Lean thy soul on these words. Repose calmly on the bosom of
+thy God, and carry them with thee into every scene of life. "O Lord God,
+thou knowest."--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=October 11th.=
+
+      _Behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of
+      it reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12._
+
+Think of that mystic ladder, which descends from the throne of God to
+the spot, however lowly, where you may be. It may be a moorland waste; a
+humble cottage; a ship's cabin; a settler's hut; a bed of pain; but
+Jesus Christ finds you out, and comes just where you are. The one pole
+of this ladder is the gold of His deity; the other is the silver of His
+manhood; the rungs are the series of events from the cradle of Bethlehem
+to the right hand of power, where He sits. That ladder sways beneath a
+weight of blessing for you. Oh, that you would send away your burdens of
+sin, and care, and fear, by the hands of the ascending angels of prayer
+and faith!--so as to be able to receive into your heart the trooping
+angels of peace, and joy, and love, and glory.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=October 12th.=
+
+      _Surely God is in this place, and I knew it not. Gen.
+      xxviii. 16._
+
+        The Parish Priest, of austerity,
+          Climbed up in the high church steeple
+        To be nearer God, that he might hand
+          His word down to the people.
+        And in sermon script he daily wrote
+          What he thought was sent from heaven;
+        And he dropped it down on the people's heads
+          Two times one day in seven.
+        In his age God said, "Come down and die."
+          And he cried out from the steeple:
+        "Where art thou, Lord?" And the Lord replied:
+          "Down here among My people."--_Selected._
+
+
+=October 13th.=
+
+      _Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes
+      and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do
+      them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land
+      which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Deut.
+      iv. 1._
+
+"Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess." This is a
+universal and abiding principle. It was true for Israel, and it is true
+for us. The pathway of life and the true secret of possession is simple
+obedience to the holy commandments of God. We see this all through the
+inspired volume, from cover to cover. God has given us His Word, not to
+speculate upon it or discuss it, but that we may obey it. And it is as
+we, through grace, yield a hearty and happy obedience to our Father's
+statutes and judgments, that we tread the bright pathway of life, and
+enter into the reality of all that God has treasured up for us in
+Christ.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=October 14th.=
+
+      _I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the
+      life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
+      of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for
+      me. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+The man who lives in God knows no life except the life of
+God.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=October 15th.=
+
+      _Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the
+      breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the
+      hope of salvation. 1 Thess. v. 8._
+
+_Faith, love, hope_--these three form the defensive armor that guards
+the soul; and these three make self-control possible. Like a diver in
+his dress who is let down to the bottom of the wild, far-weltering
+ocean, a man whose heart is girt by faith and charity, and whose head is
+covered with the helmet of hope, may be dropped down into the wildest
+sea of temptation and of worldliness, and yet will walk dry and unharmed
+through the midst of its depths, and breathe air that comes from a world
+above the restless surges. _Faith_ will bring you into communication
+with all the power of God. _Love_ will lead you into a region where all
+the temptations round you will be touched as by Ithuriel's spear, and
+will show their own foulness. And _Hope_ will turn away your eyes from
+looking at the tempting splendor around, and fix them upon the glories
+that are above. And so the reins will come into your hands in an
+altogether new manner, and you will be able to be king over your own
+nature in a fashion that you did not dream of before, if only you will
+trust in Christ and love Him, and fix your desires on the things above.
+Then you will be able to govern yourself, when you let Christ govern
+you.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=October 16th.=
+
+      _The word of our God shall stand forever. Isa. xl. 8._
+
+The Word of God is the water of life; the more ye lave it forth, the
+fresher it runneth. It is the fire of God's glory; the more ye blow it,
+the clearer it burneth. It is the corn of the Lord's field; the better
+ye grind it, the more it yieldeth. It is the bread of heaven; the more
+it is broken and given forth, the more it remaineth. It is the sword of
+the Spirit; the more it is scoured, the brighter it shineth.--_Bishop
+Jewel._
+
+
+=October 17th.=
+
+      _I spake unto thee in thy prosperity. Jer. xxii. 21._
+
+We shade our eyes with the hand to shut out the glare of the strong
+daylight when we want to see far away. God thus puts, as it were, His
+hand upon our brows, and tempers the glow of prosperity, that we may
+take in the wider phases of His goodness. It is a common experience
+that, looking out from the gloom of some personal affliction, men have
+seen for the first time beyond the earth plane, and caught glimpses of
+the Beulah Land. Let us not shrink from the Hand which we know is heavy
+only with blessing.--_Ludlow._
+
+
+=October 18th.=
+
+      _Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the
+      fowler. Psa. xci. 3._
+
+_He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler._ That is, from the
+little things, the hidden traps and nets that are set for us. Great sins
+frighten where little snares entangle. It is easier to escape the
+huntsman's arrow than the crafty lure.
+
+And where are they not set? Riches and poverty, sickness and strength,
+prosperity and adversity, friendship and loneliness, the work and the
+want of it--each has its snare, wherein not only are the unwary caught,
+but the wise and the watchful sometimes fall a prey. Little things, mere
+threads, hardly worth guarding against--yet they are strong enough to
+hold us and hinder us, and may be the beginning of our destruction.--_Mark
+Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=October 19th.=
+
+      _The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Gen. iv. 15._
+
+We speak of the mark of Cain as if it was the mark of a curse. In
+reality it was the mark of God's mercy, a defence against his
+enemies.--_D. J. Burrell._
+
+
+=October 20th.=
+
+      _Who is among you that feareth the Lord . . . that
+      walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust
+      in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Isa.
+      l. 10._
+
+"In fierce storms," said an old seaman, "we can do but one thing, there
+is only one way; we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her
+there."
+
+This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul, you can see
+neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you
+can do but one thing; there is only one way. Reason cannot help you.
+Past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation.
+Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and
+keep it there. You must stay upon the Lord; and, come what may--winds,
+waves, cross seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring
+breakers--no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold
+fast your confidence in God's faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His
+everlasting love in Christ Jesus.--_Richard Fuller._
+
+
+=October 21st.=
+
+      _Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a
+      crown of life. Rev. ii. 10._
+
+There is a heaven at the end of every faithful Christian's
+journey.--_Cuyler._
+
+
+=October 22nd.=
+
+      _Flee into Egypt. Matt. ii. 13._
+
+Why? Because there is a cruel king who will seek the young child's life.
+
+Is Christ born in thee? Is thy life like that manger--precious as a
+casket, because of what it holds? Then have a care; for, craftier and
+more unscrupulous than Herod, the destroyer of souls will seek to
+destroy thee.
+
+There is a day coming when they shall say, "They are dead which sought
+the young child's life." Grace shall survive the foe, and we shall yet
+return to enjoy the comforts of life, with no Herod to threaten us.
+After all, it is sin which is short-lived, for goodness shall flourish
+when the evil one is chained up for ever.--_Thos. Champness._
+
+
+=October 23rd.=
+
+      _As my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant
+      do. 1 Kings ii. 38._
+
+There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God,
+and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do
+what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from His.--_G.
+Campbell Morgan._
+
+
+=October 24th.=
+
+      _Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
+      your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
+      heaven. Matt. v. 16._
+
+They say the world has an eagle eye for anything inconsistent, an eye
+sharp to discover the vagaries and inconsistencies in the defaulty and
+the unworthy. It has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the sun,
+and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before the unsullied
+purity of noon. Let your light so shine before men, that others, awed
+and charmed by the consistency of your godly life, may come to enquire,
+and to say you have been with Jesus.--_Punshon._
+
+
+=October 25th.=
+
+      _The eleven disciples went . . . into a mountain where
+      Jesus had appointed them . . . Jesus came and spake
+      unto them saying . . . Go ye and teach all nations.
+      Matt. xxviii. 16, 18, 19._
+
+The considerable actions in the world have usually very small
+beginnings. Of a few letters, how many thousand words are made! Of ten
+figures, how many thousand numbers! A point is the beginning of all
+geometry. A little stone flung into a pond makes a little circle, then a
+greater, till it enlarges itself to both the sides. So from small
+beginnings God doth cause an efflux through the whole world.--_Charnock._
+
+
+=October 26th.=
+
+      _Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which
+      shall be to all people. Luke ii. 10._
+
+It is true that these good tidings of great joy were to be "for all
+people," but not _first_. The message falls on our own ears, and is
+first for our own souls.
+
+Oh, ponder this well! Take all God's truths home _first_ to thine own
+heart. Ask in earnest prayer that the Spirit may write them with the pen
+of heaven on thine own conscience. Then wilt thou be a vessel fitted for
+the Master's use, and carry His message with spiritual power to the
+souls of others.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=October 27th.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of heaven: nor are
+sorrow and care any mark of God's disfavor, but the reverse. God's love
+is robust, and true, and eager--not for our comfort, but for our lasting
+blessedness; it is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to
+bear misrepresentation and rebuke in its attempts to attune our spirits
+to higher music. It therefore comes instructing us. Let us enter
+ourselves as pupils in the school of God's love. Let us lay aside our
+own notions of the course of study; let us submit ourselves to be led
+and taught; let us be prepared for any lessons that may be given from
+the blackboard of sorrow: let us be so assured of the inexhaustible
+tenacity of His love as to dare to trust Him, though He slay us. And let
+us look forward to that august moment when He will give us a reason for
+all life's discipline, with a smile that shall thrill our souls with
+ecstasy, and constrain sorrow and sighing to flee away forever.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=October 28th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He
+      will give it you. John xvi. 23._
+
+Prayer must be based upon promise, but, thank God, His promises are
+always broader than our prayers! No fear of building inverted pyramids
+here, for Jesus Christ is the foundation.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=October 29th.=
+
+      _He riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments;
+      and took a towel, and girded Himself. After that He
+      poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the
+      disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
+      wherewith He was girded. John xiii. 4, 5._
+
+Acts are common and mean because they are ordinarily expressive of the
+common and mean thoughts of men. Let us not accuse the acts that make up
+our daily life of meanness, but our ignoble souls that reveal themselves
+so unworthily through those acts. The same act may successively mount up
+through every intermediate stage from the depth of unworthiness to a
+transcendent height of excellence, according to the soul that is
+manifested by it. One of the glorious ends of our Lord's incarnation was
+that He might propitiate us with the details of life, so that we should
+not disdain these as insignificant, but rather disdain ourselves for our
+inability to make these details interpreters of a noble nature. Oh, let
+us then look with affectionateness and gratitude upon the daily details
+of life, seeing the sanctifying imprint of the hand of Jesus upon them
+all!--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=October 30th.=
+
+      _He placed . . . cherubims, and a flaming sword . . .
+      to keep the way of the tree of life. Gen. iii. 24._
+
+      _Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they
+      may have right to the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 14._
+
+How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last page of the
+Revelation should come bending round to touch the first page of Genesis.
+The history of man began with angels with frowning faces and flaming
+swords barring the way to the Tree of Life. It ends with the guard of
+cherubim withdrawn; or rather, perhaps, sheathing their swords and
+becoming guides to the no longer forbidden fruit, instead of being its
+guards. That is the Bible's grand symbolical way of saying that all
+between--the sin, the misery, the death--is a parenthesis. God's purpose
+is not going to be thwarted. The end of His majestic march through
+history is to be men's access to the Tree of Life, from which, for the
+dreary ages--that are but as a moment in the great eternities--they were
+barred out by their sin,--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=October 31st.=
+
+      _That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
+      glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
+      revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your
+      understanding being enlightened. Eph. i. 17, 18._
+
+We were coming down a mountain in Switzerland one evening, when a black
+thunder-storm blotted out the day, and all things were suddenly plunged
+into darkness. We could only dimly see the narrow, dusty footpaths, and
+the gloomy sides that were swallowed up in deeper gloom. What, then, of
+the majesty all about us, heights, and depths, and wonders? All was
+darkness. Then came the lightning--not flashes, but the blazing of the
+whole sky, incessant, and on every side. What recesses of glory we gazed
+into! What marvels of splendor shone out of the darkness!
+
+Think how with us, in us, is One who comes to make the common, dusty
+ways of life resplendent, illuminating our dull thoughts by the light of
+the glory of God; clearing the vision of the soul, and then revealing
+the greatness of the salvation that is ours in Christ.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: November]
+
+
+=November 1st.=
+
+      _Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the
+      midst. John viii. 9._
+
+Alone with Jesus! What a sweet and holy spot! What a blessed refuge to
+which the soul may betake itself from the charges of Satan, the
+accusations of the world, and the sorrows of life! Sweet spot for the
+heart to unfold itself, to tell its hidden tale in the ear of Infinite
+love, tenderness, and compassion!
+
+Alone with Jesus! How different a front would Christianity present to
+the world if the Lord's people were oftener there! What humility, and
+gentleness, and love, would characterize all their dealings! What
+holiness stamped on the very brow, that all might read! What few
+judgments passed on others, how many more on ourselves! What calmness
+and resignation and joyful submission to all the Lord's dealings!
+
+Be much "alone with Jesus!" Then will the passage to glory be one of
+sunshine, whether it be through the portals of the grave or through the
+clouds of heaven.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=November 2nd.=
+
+      _Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence
+      is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are
+      pleasures for evermore. Psa. xvi. 11._
+
+The man who walks along the path of life lives in the presence of the
+joy-giving God. Just in so far as he is true to that path of life, and
+wanders neither to the right hand nor to the left, his joy becomes
+deeper, nay! he becomes partaker of that very fullness of joy in which
+God Himself lives, and moves, and has His being. And while such is his
+experience in the midst of all the trials of life, he has also the
+privilege of looking forward to grander things yet in store for him,
+when that higher world shall be reached, and the shadows of time have
+passed away forever. "At Thy right hand," exclaims the psalmist, "there
+are pleasures for evermore."--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=November 3rd.=
+
+      _Be clothed with humility. 1 Pet. v. 5._
+
+Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more
+officers than men? We need more of the rank and file, who are willing to
+march anywhere, and to do the lowliest of tasks. We shall succeed in
+doing greater things when we are all of us willing to be subject. It is
+the bayonet rather than the gold lace which is wanted when the enemy is
+to be subdued.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=November 4th.=
+
+      _Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold,
+      Esau came, and with him four hundred men. Gen. xxxiii.
+      1._
+
+Do not lift up your eyes and look for Esaus. Those who look for troubles
+will not be long without finding trouble to look at. Lift them
+higher--to Him from whom our help cometh. Then you will be able to meet
+your troubles with an unperturbed spirit. Those who have seen the face
+of God need not fear the face of man that shall die. To have power with
+God is to have power over all the evils that threaten us.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=November 5th.=
+
+      _Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
+      flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of
+      God. 2 Cor. vii. 1._
+
+The Tree of Life, according to some of the old rabbinical legends,
+lifted its branches, by an indwelling motion, high above impure hands
+that were stretched to touch them; and until our hands are cleansed
+through faith in Jesus Christ, its richest fruit hangs unreachable,
+golden above our heads. The fullness of the life of heaven is only
+granted to those who, drawing near Jesus Christ by faith on earth, have
+thereby cleansed themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
+spirit.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=November 6th.=
+
+      _The pillar of the cloud went from before their face,
+      and stood behind them. Ex. xiv. 19._
+
+It is not always guidance that we most need. Many of our dangers come
+upon us from behind. They are stealthy, insidious, assaulting us when we
+are unaware of their nearness. The tempter is cunning and shrewd. He
+does not meet us full front. It is a comfort to know that Christ comes
+behind us when it is there we need the protection.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=November 7th.=
+
+      _Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
+      transgressions, Thou shall purge them away. Psa. lxv.
+      3._
+
+There is much earnest religion that lives in the dreary compass of these
+first four words, "Iniquities prevail against me," and never gets a
+glimpse beyond it. But do not put a full stop there. Fetch in One who
+can help. "As for our transgressions, THOU shalt purge them away." The
+moment we bring the Lord in, that moment defeat is turned to triumphant
+deliverance!
+
+Write that up in golden letters--THOU! And do not find in this word only
+a trembling hope, or a wondering wish. Listen to its full
+assurance--THOU SHALT!
+
+There is but one result that can warrant the agony of Calvary; there is
+but one result that can satisfy either our blessed Savior or ourselves;
+and that is our being conquerors over sin.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=November 8th.=
+
+      _Speaking the truth in love. Eph. iv. 15._
+
+The best way of eradicating error is to publish and practice truth.--_W.
+Arnot._
+
+
+=November 9th.=
+
+      _So he arose, and went to Zarephath. 1 Kings xvii.
+      10._
+
+Let it be equally said of you to whatever duty the Lord may call you
+away, "He arose and went." Be the way ever so laborious or dangerous,
+still arise, like Elijah, and go. Go cheerfully, in faith, keeping your
+heart quietly dependent on the Lord, and in the end you will surely
+behold and sing of His goodness. Though tossed on a sea of troubles you
+may anchor on the firm foundation of God, which standeth sure. You have
+for your security His exceeding great and precious promises, and may say
+with the psalmist, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
+disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him who
+is the health of my countenance, and my God."--_F. W. Krummacher._
+
+
+=November 10th.=
+
+      _A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30._
+
+The acts of breathing which I performed yesterday will not keep me alive
+to-day; I must continue to breathe afresh every moment, or animal life
+ceases. In like manner yesterday's grace and spiritual strength must be
+renewed, and the Holy Spirit must continue to breathe on my soul from
+moment to moment in order to my enjoying the consolations, and to my
+working the works of God.--_Toplady._
+
+
+=November 11th.=
+
+      _And when the vessel that he made of the clay was
+      marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again
+      another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
+      it. Jer. xviii. 4. (R. V.)_
+
+God's fairest, highest place of service in the land that lies beyond
+will be filled by the men and women who have been broken upon the wheel
+on earth.--_G. Campbell Morgan._
+
+
+=November 12th.=
+
+      _Examine yourselves. 2 Cor. xiii. 5._
+
+If your state be good, searching into it will give you that comfort of
+it. If your state be bad, searching into it cannot make it worse; nay,
+it is the only way to make it better, for conversion begins with
+conviction.--_Bishop Hopkins._
+
+
+=November 13th.=
+
+      _Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Josh. xxiv.
+      15._
+
+CHOICE AND SERVICE--these were demanded of the Israelites; these are
+demanded of you, these only. Choice and service--in these are the whole
+of life.--_Mark Hopkins._
+
+
+=November 14th.=
+
+      _Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all
+      generations. Psa. xc. 1._
+
+You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You may gather around him a
+chorus of the choicest birds; you may give him a perch on the goodliest
+pine; you may charge winged messengers to bring him choicest dainties;
+but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lordly wings, and with his eye
+on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away to his own ancestral halls amid
+the munitions of rocks and the wild music of tempest and waterfall.
+
+The soul of man, in its eagle soarings, will rest with nothing short of
+the Rock of Ages. Its ancestral halls are the halls of heaven. Its
+munitions of rocks are the attributes of God. The sweep of its majestic
+flight is Eternity! "Lord, THOU hast been our dwelling place in all
+generations!"--_Macduff._
+
+
+=November 15th.=
+
+      _He hath said. Heb. xiii. 5._
+
+If we can only grasp these words of faith, we have an all-conquering
+weapon in our hand. What doubt is there that will not be slain by this
+two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a
+deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God's covenant? "He hath
+said!" Yes; whether for delight in our quietude, or for strength in our
+conflict, "He hath said!" must be our daily resort.
+
+Since "He hath said" is the source of all wisdom, and the fountain of
+all comfort, let it dwell in you richly, as "a well of water, springing
+up unto everlasting life." So shall you grow healthy, strong, and happy,
+in the divine life.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=November 16th.=
+
+      _Not I, but Christ liveth in me. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+The wonder of the life in Jesus is this--and you will find it so, and
+you have found it so, if you have ever taken your New Testament and
+tried to make it the rule of your daily life--that there is not a single
+action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you
+will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ,
+if He were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those
+circumstances and with the material upon which you are called to act.
+The soul that takes in Jesus' word, the soul that through the words of
+Jesus enters into the very person of Jesus, the soul that knows Him as
+its daily presence and its daily law--it never hesitates.--_Phillips
+Brooks._
+
+
+=November 17th.=
+
+      _Who is my neighbor? Luke x. 29._
+
+"Who is thy neighbor?" It is the sufferer, wherever, whoever, whatsoever
+he be. Wherever thou hearest the cry of distress, wherever thou seest
+anyone brought across thy path by the chances and changes of life (that
+is, by the Providence of God), whom it is in thy power to help--he,
+stranger or enemy though he be--_he_ is thy neighbor.--_A. P. Stanley._
+
+
+=November 18th.=
+
+      _He which stablisheth us . . . in Christ, and hath
+      anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and
+      given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor.
+      i. 21, 22._
+
+When a Christian is "sealed" by the Holy Ghost, "sealed" as the property
+of his Master, there will be no need to ask, "Whose image and
+superscription is this" upon the "sealed" one? The King's, of course.
+Anyone can see the image.
+
+Of what use is a "seal" if it cannot be seen?
+
+Is the King's image visibly, permanently, stamped upon us? It is on
+every Spirit-filled, "sealed" believer.--_John McNeil._
+
+
+=November 19th.=
+
+      _They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the
+      hand of Zerubbabel. Zech. iv. 10._
+
+It is joy to the Christian to know that the plummet is now in the hands
+of our great Zerubbabel, and that when He comes forth, the world's
+misrule shall be over. The false standards and false estimates of men
+shall be swept away. The standards of "expediency," of "conscience," of
+"every man thinking as he likes, if he is only _sincere_"--these, and
+all similar refuges of lies shall be like a spider's web. The measure of
+all things will be Christ, and Christ the Measurer of all things.
+
+How everything will be reversed! What a turning upside down of all that
+now exists!
+
+Blessed day, and longed for--the world's great jubilee, the earth's
+long-looked-for Sabbath, groaning creation's joy, and nature's calm
+repose! Who would not cry, "Come, Lord Jesus, and end this troubled
+dream! Shatter the shadows of the long, dark night of sin and sorrow,
+sighing and tears, despair and death!"--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=November 20th.=
+
+      _In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
+      good cheer; I have overcome the world. John xvi. 33._
+
+Tribulation is God's threshing--not to destroy us, but to get what is
+good, heavenly, and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong,
+earthly, and fleshly. Nothing less than blows of pain will do this. The
+evil clings so to the good, the golden wheat of goodness in us is so
+wrapped up in the strong chaff of the old life that only the heavy flail
+of suffering can produce the separation.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=November 21st.=
+
+      _I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
+      saying . . . Write. Rev. i. 10, 11._
+
+It is very sweet to note that a voice from heaven said to John, "Write."
+Does not that voice come to us? Are there not those who would taste the
+joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection? Are
+there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of
+past joys, when we were poor as they are now? Nay, could not some, who
+read these plain words, place inside the envelope something bearing
+their signature which would make the widow's heart dance for joy?
+
+What is our pen doing? Is it adding joy to other men's lives? If so,
+then angels may tune their harps when we sit at our desk. They are sent
+to minister to the heirs of salvation, and would be glad to look upon
+our pen as writing music for them to sing, because what we write makes
+their client's joy to be full.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=November 22nd.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+We should ever bear in mind that the discipline of our heavenly Father's
+hand is to be interpreted in the light of our Father's countenance; and
+the deep mysteries of His moral government to be contemplated through
+the medium or His tender love.--_Selected._
+
+
+=November 23rd.=
+
+      _Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.
+      1 Thess. v. 24._
+
+Earthly faithfulness is possible only by the reception of heavenly
+gifts. As surely as every leaf that grows is mainly water that the plant
+has got from the clouds, and carbon that it has got out of the
+atmosphere, so surely will all our good be mainly drawn from heaven and
+heaven's gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal that you put upon
+your fire contains in itself sunbeams that have been locked up for all
+these millenniums that have passed since it waved green in the forest,
+so certainly does every good deed embody in itself gifts from above. And
+no man is pure except by impartation; and every good thing and every
+perfect thing cometh from the Father of lights.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=November 24th.=
+
+      _Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col.
+      iii. 16._
+
+Remember your life is to be a singing life. This world is God's grand
+cathedral for you. You are to be one of God's choristers, and there is
+to be a continual eucharistic sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving going
+up from your heart, with which God shall be continually well pleased.
+And there should be not only the offering of the lips, but the surrender
+of the life with joy. Yes, with _joy_, and not with _constraint_. Every
+faculty of our nature should be presented to Him in gladsome service,
+for the Lord Jehovah is my song as well as my strength.--_W. Hay
+Aitken._
+
+
+=November 25th.=
+
+      _Call to remembrance the former days. Heb. x. 32._
+
+_The former days_--times of trial, conflict, discouragement, temptation.
+Did we oftener call these to remembrance, with how much more delight
+would we make the covert of God's faithfulness our refuge, exclaiming
+with the psalmist, "Because Thou hast been my help, therefore in the
+shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice."--_R. Fuller._
+
+
+=November 26th.=
+
+      _The Lord . . . thy habitation. Psa. xci. 9._
+
+We go home without arrangement. We plan our visits, and then go home
+because they are over. Duty, want, a host of things, lead us forth
+elsewhere; but the heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he
+whose thoughts pass up to God, not because they are driven like a
+fisherman's craft swept by the fierceness of the storm, not because they
+are forced by want or fear, not because they are led by the hand of
+duty, but because God is in his habitation and his home. Loosed from
+other things, the thoughts go home for rest.
+
+In God the blessed man finds the love that welcomes. There is the sunny
+place. There care is loosed and toil forgotten. There is the joyous
+freedom, the happy calm, the rest, and renewing of our strength--at home
+with God.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=November 27th.=
+
+      _These have turned the world upside down. Acts xvii.
+      6._
+
+      _None of these things move me. Acts xx. 24._
+
+The men that move the world are the ones who do not let the world move
+them.--_Selected._
+
+
+=November 28th.=
+
+      _He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
+      that shrank. Gen. xxxii. 32._
+
+Whatever it is that enables a soul, whom God designs to bless, to stand
+out against Him, God will touch. It may be the pride of wealth, or of
+influence, or of affection; but it will not be spared--God will touch
+it. It may be something as _natural_ as a sinew; but if it robs a man of
+spiritual blessing God will touch it. It may be as _small_ a thing as a
+sinew; but its influence in making a man strong in his resistance of
+blessing will be enough to condemn it--and God will touch it. And
+beneath that touch it will shrink and shrivel, and you will limp to the
+end of life.
+
+Remember that the sinew never shrinks save beneath the touch of the
+angel hand--the touch of tender love.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=November 29th.=
+
+      _With God all things are possible. Mark x. 27._
+
+Unbelief says, "How can such and such things be?" It is full of "hows";
+but faith has one great answer to the ten thousand "hows," and that
+answer is--GOD!--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=November 30th.=
+
+      _Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath
+      said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them. 2 Cor.
+      vi. 16._
+
+These temples were reared for Him. Let Him fill them so completely that,
+like the oriental temple of glass in the ancient legend, the temple
+shall not be seen, but only the glorious sunlight, which not only shines
+into it, but through it, and the transparent walls are all unseen.--_A.
+B. Simpson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DECEMBER]
+
+
+=December 1st.=
+
+      _Without Christ. Eph. ii. 12._
+
+Without a hope to cheer, a Pilot to steer, a Friend to counsel, grace to
+sustain, heaven to welcome us, and God to console!--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 2nd.=
+
+      _When I am weak, then am I strong. 2 Cor. xii. 10._
+
+This is God's way. We advance by going backwards, we become strong by
+becoming weak, we become wise by being fools.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=December 3rd.=
+
+      _Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
+      Ghost. 2 Pet. i. 21._
+
+The Bible is the writing of the living God. Each letter was penned with
+an almighty finger. Each word in it dropped from the everlasting lips.
+Each sentence was dictated by the Holy Spirit. Albeit that Moses was
+employed to write his histories with his fiery pen, God guided that pen.
+It may be that David touched his harp, and let sweet psalms of melody
+drop from his fingers; but God moved his hands over the living strings
+of his golden harp. Solomon sang canticles of love and gave forth words
+of consummate wisdom; but God directed his lips, and made the preacher
+eloquent. If I follow the thundering Nahum, when his horses plough the
+waters; or Habakkuk, when he sees the tents of Cushan in affliction; if
+I read Malachi, when the earth is burning like an oven; if I turn to the
+smooth page of John, who tells of love; or the rugged chapters of Peter,
+who speaks of fire devouring God's enemies; if I turn aside to Jude, who
+launches forth anathemas upon the foes of God--everywhere I find God
+speaking; it is God's voice, not man's; the words are God's words; the
+words of the Eternal, the Invisible, the Almighty, the Jehovah of ages.
+This Bible is God's Bible; and when I see it, I seem to hear a voice
+springing up from it, saying, "I am the Book of God. Man, read me. I am
+God's writing. Study my page, for I was penned by God. Love me, for He
+is my Author, and you will see Him visible and manifest
+everywhere."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 4th.=
+
+      _They all forsook Him, and fled. Mark xiv. 50._
+
+Separation never comes from His side.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=December 5th.=
+
+      _Belshazzar the king made a great feast. Dan. v. 1._
+
+There was one Guest not invited, but He came, and the work of His finger
+glowed upon the wall.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 6th.=
+
+      _He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Prov.
+      xi. 25._
+
+The effective life and the receptive life are one. No sweep of arm that
+does some work for God but harvests also some more of the truth of God,
+and sweeps it into the treasury of life.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=December 7th.=
+
+      _And they came unto Him, bringing one sick of the
+      palsy. Mark ii. 3._
+
+Had it not been for the palsy, this man might never have seen
+Christ!--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 8th.=
+
+      _Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
+      benefits . . . who crowneth thee with loving kindness
+      and tender mercies. Ps. ciii. 2, 4._
+
+We talk about the telescope of faith, but I think we want even more the
+microscope of watchful and grateful love. Apply this to the little bits
+of our daily lives, in the light of the Spirit, and how wonderfully they
+come out!--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=December 9th.=
+
+      _When thou passest through the waters I will be with
+      thee. Is. xliii. 2._
+
+God's presence in the trial is much better than exemption from the
+trial. The sympathy of His heart with us is sweeter far than the power
+of His hand for us.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 10th.=
+
+      _Then shall ye discern between the righteous and the
+      wicked. Mal. iii. 18._
+
+Said Anne of Austria to Cardinal Richelieu: "God does not pay at the end
+of every week, but He pays at last!"--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 11th.=
+
+      _What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeared
+      for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv.
+      14._
+
+        "Only one life; 'twill soon be past--
+        And only what's done for Christ will last."--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 12th.=
+
+      _He (Jesus) . . . looked up to heaven. Mark vi. 41._
+
+In working for God, first look to heaven. It is a grand plan. Over and
+over again our Lord Jesus Christ looked to heaven and said, "Father."
+Let us imitate Him; although standing on the earth, let us have our
+conversation in heaven. Before you go out, if you would feed the world,
+if you would be a blessing in the midst of spiritual dearth and famine,
+lift up your head to heaven. Then your very face will shine, your very
+garments will smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory
+palaces where you have been with your God and Savior. There will be
+stamped upon you the dignity and power of the service of the Most High
+God.--_McNeil._
+
+
+=December 13th.=
+
+      _The disciples were called Christians first in
+      Antioch. Acts xi. 26._
+
+This name suggests that the clear impression made by our character, as
+well as by our words, should be that we belong to Jesus Christ. He
+should manifestly be the center and the guide, the impulse and the
+pattern, the strength and reward, of our lives. We are Christians. That
+should be plain for all folks to see, whether we speak or be silent.
+
+Is it so with you?--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=December 14th.=
+
+      _Having therefore these promises. 2 Cor. vii. 1._
+
+The forests in summer days are full of birds' nests. They are hidden
+among the leaves. The little birds know where they are; and when a storm
+arises, or when night draws on, they fly, each to his own nest. So the
+promises of God are hidden in the Bible, like nests in the great
+forests; and thither we should fly in any danger or alarm, hiding there
+in our soul's nest until the storm be overpast. There are no castles in
+this world so impregnable as the words of Christ.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=December 15th.=
+
+      _Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the
+      greatest of these is love. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. (R. V.)_
+
+Love is the greatest thing that God can give us: for Himself is Love;
+and it is the greatest thing we can give to God: for it will give
+ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+
+=December 16th.=
+
+     _He (Thomas) . . . said, Except I shall see . . . I
+     will not believe. . . . Jesus . . . said . . . Be not
+     faithless, but believing. John xx. 25, 27._
+
+Every doubt in the heart of a Christian is a dishonor done to the Word
+of God, and the sacrifice of Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 17th.=
+
+      _Lot . . . pitched his tent toward Sodom. Gen. xiii.
+      12._
+
+And soon Lot moved into Sodom; and before long Sodom moved into
+him.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=December 18th.=
+
+      _Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12._
+
+The world needs men who are free from secret faults. Most men are free
+from gross, public faults.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 19th.=
+
+      _A hearer of the word . . . a doer of the work. Jas. i.
+      23, 25._
+
+Religion may be learned on Sunday, but it is lived in the week-day's
+work. The torch of religion may be lit in the church, but it does its
+burning in the shop and on the street. Religion seeks its life in
+prayer, but it lives its life in deeds. It is planted in the closet, but
+it does its growing out in the world. It plumes itself for flight in
+songs of praise, but its actual flights are in works of love. It
+resolves and meditates on faithfulness as it reads its Christian lesson
+in the Book of Truth, but "faithful is that faithful does." It puts its
+armor on in all the aids and helps of the sanctuary as its
+dressing-room, but it combats for the right, the noble, and the good in
+all the activities of practical existence, and its battle ground is the
+whole broad field of life.--_John Doughty._
+
+
+=December 20th.=
+
+      _Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. James iv.
+      14._
+
+"To-morrow" is the devil's great ally--the very Goliath in whom he
+trusts for victory. "Now" is the stripling sent forth against him. . . .
+The world will freely agree to be Christians to-morrow if Christ will
+permit them to be worldly to-day.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=December 21st.=
+
+      _The sea wrought, and was tempestuous. Jonah i. 11._
+
+Sin in the soul is like Jonah in the ship. It turns the smoothest water
+into a tempestuous sea.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 22nd.=
+
+      _Be not doubtful, but followers of them also, through
+      faith and patience, inherit the promises. Heb. vi.
+      12._
+
+God makes a promise. Faith believes it. Hope anticipates it. Patience
+quietly awaits it.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 23rd.=
+
+      _Go and sit down in the lowest room. Luke xiv. 10._
+
+He who is willing to take the lowest place will always find sitting
+room; there is no great crush for the worst places. There is nothing
+like the jostling at the back there is at the front; so if we would be
+comfortable, we shall do well to keep behind.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=December 24th.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children, who
+knock at their neighbor's houses and then run away; we often knock at
+heaven's door and then run off into the spirit of the world; instead of
+waiting for entrance and answer, we act as if we were afraid of having
+our prayers answered.--_Williams._
+
+
+=December 25th.=
+
+      _A multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and
+      saying, Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 13, 14._
+
+Angels had been present on many august occasions, and they had joined in
+many a solemn chorus to the praise of their Almighty Creator. They were
+present at the creation: "The morning stars sang together, and all the
+sons of God shouted for joy." They had seen many a planet fashioned
+between the palms of Jehovah, and wheeled by His eternal hands through
+the infinitude of space. They had sung solemn songs over many a world
+which the Great One had created. We doubt not, they had often chanted,
+"Blessing and honor, and glory, and majesty, and power, and dominion,
+and might, be unto Him that sitteth on the throne," manifesting Himself
+in the work of creation. I doubt not, too, that their songs had gathered
+force through ages. As when first created, their first breath was song,
+so when they saw God create new worlds, then their song received another
+note; they rose a little higher in the gamut of adoration. But this
+time, when they saw God stoop from His throne and become a babe hanging
+upon a woman's breast, they lifted their notes higher still; and
+reaching to the uttermost stretch of angelic music, they gained the
+highest notes of the divine scale of praise and they sang, "Glory to God
+_in the highest_," for higher in goodness they felt God could not go.
+Thus their highest praise they gave to Him in the highest act of His
+Godhead.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 26th.=
+
+      _God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of
+      our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14._
+
+The cross is the great center of God's moral universe! To this center
+God ever pointed, and the eye of faith ever looked forward, until the
+Savior came. And now we must ever turn to that cross as the center of
+all our blessing, and the basis of all our worship, both on earth and in
+heaven--in time and throughout all eternity.
+
+
+=December 27th.=
+
+      _He ever liveth. Heb. vii. 25._
+
+It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men
+come and go. Leaders, teachers, thinkers, speak and work for a season,
+and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives.
+They are lights kindled, and therefore, sooner or later quenched, but He
+is the true Light from which they draw all their brightness, and He
+shines for evermore.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=December 28th.=
+
+      _The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James
+      iv. 4._
+
+It is like the ivy with the oak. The ivy may give the oak a grand,
+beautiful appearance, but all the while it is feeding on its vitals. Are
+we compromising with the enemies of God? Are we being embraced by the
+world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause? This may add to us in
+the world's estimation, but our strength becomes lost.--_Denham Smith._
+
+
+=December 29th.=
+
+      _She (Hannah) . . . prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore
+      . . . she spake in her heart. 1 Sam. i. 10, 13._
+
+For real business at the mercy-seat give me a home-made prayer, a prayer
+that comes out of the depths of my heart, not because I invented it, but
+because God the Holy Ghost, put it there, and gave it such living force
+that I could not help letting it out. Though your words are broken, and
+your sentences disconnected, if your desires are earnest, if they are
+like coals of juniper, burning with a vehement flame, God will not mind
+how they find expression. If you have no words, perhaps you will pray
+better without them than with them. There are prayers that break the
+backs of words; they are too heavy for any human language to
+carry.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 30th.=
+
+      _Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi.
+      8._
+
+Noah found grace in the same way that Paul obtained mercy (1 Tim. 1:
+16), namely, by mercy's taking hold of him.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 31st.=
+
+      _Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul. Heb. vi.
+      19._
+
+Anchor to the throne of God, and then shorten the rope!--_Selected._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+
+Page 4, there was a reference "11:10" listed under Ephesians. As
+Ephesians doesn't have eleven chapters, the transcriber checked page 78.
+Ephesians 2, written as ii, is on page 78 and is already listed under
+Ephesians. The reference to 11:10 being on page 78 was removed.
+
+Page 4, "I." added to "Thessalonians".
+
+Pge 24, "regetting" changed to "regretting" (by regretting what is)
+
+Page 63, "Jnue" changed to "June" (June 22nd)
+
+Page 64, "closee" changed to "closer" (by closer following)
+
+Page 110, "porals" changed to "portals" (portals of the grave)
+
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+Title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="395" height="600" alt="Cover" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<div class='bbox'><div class='bbox2'>
+
+<h1>THOUGHTS<br />
+
+<span class='small'>FOR</span><br />
+
+<span class="smcap">The Quiet Hour</span></h1>
+</div><div class='bbox2'>
+<div class='author'><br /><br />Edited By<br />
+D. L. Moody<br /><br /><br /></div>
+</div><div class='bbox2'><br /><br />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 71px;">
+<img src="images/emblem.png" width="71" height="100" alt="Emblem" title="" />
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+
+<div class='center'><br /><br />
+Fleming H. Revell Company<br />
+<span class='small'>CHICAGO&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  :&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  NEW YORK&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  :&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  TORONTO</span><br />
+<span class='small'><i>Publishers of Evangelical Literature</i></span><br />
+</div></div></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+Copyrighted 1900<br />
+by<br />
+Fleming H. Revell Company<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p>
+<h2>TO THE READER</h2>
+
+
+<p>One of the brightest signs of the times is that many
+Christians in our Young People's Societies and churches
+are observing a "Quiet Hour" daily. In this age of
+rush and activity we need some special call to go apart
+and be alone with God for a part of each day. Any man
+or woman who does this faithfully and earnestly cannot
+be more than twenty-four hours away from God.</p>
+
+<p>The selections given in this volume were first published
+in the monthly issues of the "<i>Record of Christian
+Work</i>," and were found very helpful for devotional
+purposes. They are also a mine of thoughts, to light
+up the verses quoted. Being of permanent value, it
+has been thought desirable to transfer them from the
+pages of the magazine to this permanent volume.</p>
+
+<p>May they have a helpful ministry, leading many into
+closer communion with God!</p>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/illus-003.png" width="300" height="105" alt="D. L. Moody" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Index of Texts Quoted in This Volume.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Verse Index">
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Genesis</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>18:</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>25:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>28:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a>, <a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>32:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>33:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Exodus</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>20:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>24:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>28:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>33:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>34:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Numbers</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>9:</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Deuteronomy</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>18:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>33:</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Joshua</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>23:</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>24:</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Judges</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Samuel</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12:</td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>II. Samuel</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>22:</td><td align='left'>36,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Kings</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>34,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>17:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>II. Kings</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>25:</td><td align='left'>30,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Chronicles</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Job</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Psalms</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16:</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>19:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a>, <a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>21:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>23:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>25:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>32:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>34:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>39:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>55:</td><td align='left'>22,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>62:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>63:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>65:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>78:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>90:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>91:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>100:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>103:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>118:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>119:</td><td align='left'>117,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>134:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>145:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Proverbs</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16:</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>27:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Ecclesiastes</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>9:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Song of Solomon</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Isaiah</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>30:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>32:</td><td align='left'>20,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>40:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>31,</td><td align='right'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Page_10">10</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>41:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>43:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>48:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>49:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>50:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>56:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Jeremiah</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>18:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>22:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Ezekiel</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>34:</td><td align='left'>26,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>36:</td><td align='left'>37,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>37:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Daniel</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>20,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>9:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Hosea</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Jonah</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Micah</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Zechariah</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a>, <a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Malachi</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Matthew</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>45,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>48,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>33,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>42,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>22,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>15:</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>20:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>25:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>26,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'>24-26,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>26:</td><td align='left'>39,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>40,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>27:</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>28:</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>20,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Mark</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>36,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>41,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>34,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>34,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='left'>41,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>50,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Luke</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>29,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>39,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>24:</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>31,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>34,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>John</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>36,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>37,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>45,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>46,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3-5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>39,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>34,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>57,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>29,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'>21-24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a>. <a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a>. <a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>15:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16:</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>33,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>17:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>19:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>20:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>29,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>21:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Acts</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>41,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a>, <a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>19:</td><td align='left'>38,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>26,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>47,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14:</td><td align='right'>8-10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>17:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a>, <a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>20:</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>27:</td><td align='right'>23-25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Romans</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8:</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>15:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Corinthians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>28,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>15:</td><td align='left'>58,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>II. Corinthians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>22,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Galatians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>20,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a>, <a href="#Page_103">103</a>, <a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a>, <a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_127">127</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Ephesians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_78">78</a>, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a>, <a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Philippians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a>, <a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Colossians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a>, <a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <a href="#Page_76">76</a>, <a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b><ins title="Transcriber's Note: This number not present in original text">I.</ins> Thessalonians</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Timothy</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>II. Timothy</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Hebrews</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_127">127</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>22,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11:</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12:</td><td align='left'>1,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a>, <a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>James</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_127">127</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a>, <a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. Peter</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>II. Peter</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>5,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>I. John</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>6,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a>, <a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a>, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5:</td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Jude</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' colspan='3'><br /><b>Revelation</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2:</td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3:</td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4:</td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7:</td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>22:</td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>14,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/jan.png" width="600" height="107" alt="JANUARY" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Come up in the morning .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and present thyself .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. to me
+in the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>My Father, I am coming. Nothing on the mean plain
+shall keep me away from the holy heights. Help me to
+climb fast, and keep Thou my foot, lest it fall upon the
+hard rock! At Thy bidding I come, so Thou wilt not
+mock my heart. Bring with Thee honey from heaven,
+yea, milk and wine, and oil for my soul's good, and stay
+the sun in his course, or the time will be too short in
+which to look upon Thy face, and to hear Thy gentle
+voice.</p>
+
+<p>Morning on the mount! It will make me strong and
+glad all the rest of the day so well begun.&mdash;<i>Joseph
+Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My reward is with me. Rev. xxii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We are to be rewarded, not only for work done, but
+for burdens borne, and I am not sure but that the
+brightest rewards will be for those who have borne burdens
+without murmuring. On that day He will take
+the lily, that has been growing so long among thorns,
+and lift it up to be the glory and wonder of all the universe;
+and the fragrance of that lily will draw forth ineffable
+praises from all the hosts of heaven.&mdash;<i>Andrew
+Bonar.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Where art thou? Gen. iii. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would
+send thee forth to do His own blessed work in His own<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+way? Oh, let me say to thee this morning, "The Lord
+hath need of thee." It may seem to be only a little
+thing He has for you to do, but it is an important one.
+He has "need of thee." Turn not thy back upon Him;
+put not thyself out of the way of being employed by
+Him; do not begin by laying down laws for thyself as
+to what thou wilt do and what thou wilt not do;
+but cry out from the very depth of thy heart, "Here
+am I, send me,"&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth
+him out of them all. Psa. xxxiv. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>All the afflictions of the righteous open out into
+something glorious. The prisoner is not merely delivered,
+but he finds an angel waiting for him at the door.
+And with every deliverance comes a specific blessing.
+One angel is named faith; another, love; another, joy;
+another, longsuffering; another, gentleness; another,
+goodness; another, meekness; another, temperance; another,
+peace. Each of these graces says, "We have
+come out of great tribulation."&mdash;<i>G. Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord is my .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. song. Psa. cxviii. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Let us think of God Himself becoming our song.
+This is the fulness and perfection of knowing God: so
+to know Him that He Himself becomes our delight; so
+to know Him that praise is sweetest, and fullest, and
+freshest, and gladdest, when we sing of Him. He who
+has learned this blessed secret carries the golden key of
+heaven&mdash;nay, he hath fetched heaven down to earth,
+and need not envy the angels now.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. Ex.
+xiv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Often God seems to place His children in positions<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>
+of profound difficulty&mdash;leading them into a wedge from
+which there is no escape; contriving a situation which
+no human judgment would have permitted, had it been
+previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them
+thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour.
+It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree;
+but it is perfectly right. The issue will more
+than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a
+platform for the display of His almighty grace and
+power. He will not only deliver you, but in doing so He
+will give you a lesson that you will never forget; and to
+which, in many a psalm and song in after days, you will
+revert. You will never be able to thank God enough
+for having done just as He has.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. Eph. v. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The influence we exert in the world is created by our
+relationship to Jesus Christ; and our relationship to
+Jesus Christ is revealed by our influence.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Take good heed therefore unto your souls. Josh. xxiii. 11.</i> (<i>Margin.</i>)</p></div>
+
+<p>Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is
+mixed with the quartz and rock in which it lies imbedded.
+So your soul is useless to God till taken out from
+sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies
+buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you
+must be separated unto Christ, stamped with His image
+and superscription, and made into a divine currency,
+which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian
+is, so to speak, the circulating medium of Christ, the
+coin of the realm by whom the great transactions of
+mercy and grace to a lost world are carried on. As the
+currency stands for the gold, so does the Christian
+stand for Christ, representing His good and acceptable
+will.&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much.
+Luke xvi. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The least action of life can be as surely done from
+the loftiest motive as the highest and noblest. Faithfulness
+measures acts as God measures them. True
+conscientiousness deals with our duties as God deals
+with them. Duty is duty, conscience is conscience,
+right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type
+they be printed in. "Large" and "small" are not
+words for the vocabulary of conscience. It knows only
+two words&mdash;right and wrong.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory
+by Christ Jesus. Phil. iv. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What a source&mdash;"God"! What a standard&mdash;"His
+riches in glory"! What a channel&mdash;"Christ Jesus"!
+It is your sweet privilege to place <i>all your need</i> over
+against <i>His riches</i>, and lose sight of the former in the
+presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is
+thrown open to you, in all the love of His heart; go and
+draw upon it, in the artless simplicity of faith, and you
+will never have occasion to look to a creature-stream, or
+lean on a creature-prop.&mdash;<i>C. H. M.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. James i. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We cannot be losers by trusting God, for He is
+honored by faith, and most honored when faith discerns
+His love and truth behind a thick cloud of His ways
+and providence. Happy those who are thus tried! Let
+us only be clear of unbelief and a guilty conscience.
+We shall hide ourselves in the rock and pavilion of the
+Lord, sheltered beneath the wings of everlasting love
+till all calamities be overpast.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. John
+xx. 29.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the
+unseen.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. No doubt, in Christ, the foundation
+of our faith is unseen; but so is that of yonder tower
+that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over which
+it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the
+rolling billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable,
+lies the solid rock on which it stands secure;
+and when the hurricane roars above, and breakers roar
+below, I could go calmly to sleep in that lone sea tower.
+Founded on a rock, and safer than the proudest palace
+that stands on the sandy, surf-beaten shore, it cannot
+be moved. Still less the Rock of Ages! Who trusts
+in that is fit for death, prepared for judgment, ready
+for the last day's sounding trumpet, since, "The Lord
+redeemeth the soul of His servants, and none of them
+that trust in Him shall be desolate."&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What a possibility, what an inspiration, that we can
+enhance the glory of "our Father"! Our hearts leap
+at the thought.</p>
+
+<p>How can this be done? By bearing "leaves,"&mdash;a
+<i>profession</i> of love for Him? No. By bearing <i>some</i>
+fruit? No. "That ye bear <i>much</i> fruit." In the
+abundance of the yield is the joy, the glory of the
+husbandman. We should, therefore, aim to be extraordinary,
+"hundred-fold" Christians, satisfied with none
+but the largest yield. Our lives should be packed with
+good deeds. Then at harvest time we can say, "Father,
+I have glorified Thee on the earth!"&mdash;<i>W. Jennings.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy name for ever
+and ever. Psa. cxlv. 2.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There is a very beautiful device by which the Japanese
+are accustomed to express their wishes for their friends.
+It is the figure of a drum in which the birds have built
+their nest. The story told of it is that once there lived
+a good king, so anxiously concerned for the welfare
+of his people that at the palace gate he set a drum,
+and whoever had any wrong to be redressed or any
+want, should beat the drum, and at once, by
+day or night, the king would grant the suppliant
+an audience and relief. But throughout the land there
+reigned such prosperity and contentment that none
+needed to appeal for anything, and the birds built their
+nests within it and filled it with the music of their
+song.</p>
+
+<p>Such gracious access is granted to us even by the
+King of Heaven, and day and night His ready hearing
+and His help are within the reach of all that come to
+Him; but of all men most blessed are they who have
+found on earth a blessedness in which all want is forgotten,
+and trust rests so assured of safety in the
+Father's care that prayer gives place to ceaseless praise.
+They <i>rejoice in the Lord alway</i>.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not
+be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.&mdash;Isa. xl. 31.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being&mdash;to be
+able to <i>walk</i> with God! Flight belongs to the young
+soul; it is the <i>romance</i> of religion. To run without
+weariness belongs to the <i>lofty</i> soul; it is the <i>beauty</i> of
+religion. But to walk and not faint belongs to the <i>perfect</i>
+soul; it is the <i>power</i> of religion.</p>
+
+<p>Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares
+of men? Canst thou touch the vile and polluted
+ones of earth and retain thy garments pure? Canst
+thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself undefiled?
+<i>Then</i> thou hast surpassed the flight of the
+eagle!&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. Ex.
+xxiv. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The life of fellowship with God cannot be built up in
+a day. It begins with the habitual reference of all to
+Him, hour by hour, as Moses did in Egypt. But it
+moves on to more and longer periods of communion;
+and it finds its consummation and bliss in days and
+nights of intercession and waiting and holy intercourse.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Elisha said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see.
+2 Kings vi. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and
+for one another, "Lord, open our eyes that we may see";
+for the world all around us, as well as around the
+prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots, waiting to
+carry us to places of glorious victory. And when
+our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all the events
+of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a
+"chariot" for our souls. Everything that comes to us
+becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and,
+on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a
+Juggernaut car to crush us into misery or despair if we
+so consider them. It lies with each of us to choose
+which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what
+these events are, but upon how we take them. If we
+lie down under them, and let them roll over us and
+crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if we climb
+up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them
+carry us triumphantly onward and upward, they become
+the chariots of God.&mdash;<i>Smith.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>All things work together for good to them that love God. Rom.
+viii. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+that work for the believer's good, but nine hundred and
+ninety-nine of them, <span class="smcap">and one beside</span>.&mdash;<i>George M&uuml;ller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron. Ex. xxviii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful
+suggestiveness? We have garments of praise; we
+are clothed with the Lord Jesus. And have we no ornaments?
+The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in
+the sight of God, of great price. And have we no
+golden bells? We have the golden bells of holy actions.
+Our words are bells, our actions are bells, our purposes
+are bells. Whenever we move, our motion is thus understood
+to be a motion towards holy places, holy deeds,
+holy character.&mdash;<i>Joseph Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning
+will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. Psa v. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The morning is the gate of the day, and should be
+well guarded with prayer. It is one end of the thread
+on which the day's actions are strung, and should be
+well knotted with devotion. If we felt more the majesty
+of life we should be more careful of its mornings. He
+who rushes from his bed to his business and waiteth not
+to worship is as foolish as though he had not put on his
+clothes, or cleansed his face, and as unwise as though he
+dashed into battle without arms or armor. Be it ours
+to bathe in the softly flowing river of communion with
+God, before the heat of the wilderness and the burden
+of the way begin to oppress us.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Show me Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy paths. Psa. xxv. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is a path in which every child of God is to
+walk, and in which alone God can accompany him.&mdash;<i>Denham
+Smith.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Heb. iv. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>How sweet the music of this first heavenly chime
+floating across the waters of death from the towers of
+the New Jerusalem. Pilgrim, faint under thy long and
+arduous pilgrimage, hear it! It is <span class="smcap">rest</span>. Soldier,
+carrying still upon thee blood and dust of battle, hear
+it! It is <span class="smcap">rest</span>. Voyager, tossed on the waves of sin
+and sorrow, driven hither and thither on the world's
+heaving ocean of vicissitude, hear it! The haven is in
+sight; the very waves that are breaking on thee seem to
+murmur&mdash;"<i>So He giveth His beloved</i> <span class="smcap">rest</span>." It is the
+long-drawn sigh of existence at last answered. The toil
+and travail of earth's protracted week is at an end. The
+calm of its unbroken Sabbath is begun. Man, weary
+man, has found at last the long-sought-for <i>rest</i> in the
+bosom of his God!&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Under His shadow. Song of Sol. ii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four
+pictures suggested by that: under the shadow of a rock
+in a weary plain; under the shadow of a tree; closer still,
+under the shadow of His wing; nearest and closest, in
+the shadow of His hand. Surely that hand must be the
+pierc&egrave;d hand, that may oftentimes press us sorely, and
+yet evermore encircling, upholding and shadowing!</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He made as though He would have gone further. Luke xxiv. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Is not God always acting thus? He comes to us by
+His Holy Spirit as He did to these two disciples. He
+speaks to us through the preaching of the Gospel,
+through the Word of God, through the various means of
+grace and the providential circumstances of life; and
+having thus spoken, He makes as though He would go
+further. If the ear be opened to His voice and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+heart to His Spirit, the prayer will then go up, "Lord,
+abide with me." But if that voice makes no impression,
+then He passes on, as He has done thousands of times,
+leaving the heart at each time harder than before, and
+the ear more closed to the Spirit's call.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My God shall be my strength. Isa. xlix. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger
+men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray
+for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your
+work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle.
+Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness
+of life which has come in you by the grace of God.&mdash;<i>Phillips
+Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Despising the shame. Heb. xii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>And how is that to be done? In two ways. Go up
+the mountain, and the things in the plain will look very
+small; the higher you rise the more insignificant they
+will seem. Hold fellowship with God, and the threatening
+foes here will seem very, very unformidable. Another
+way is, pull up the curtain and gaze on what is
+behind it. The low foot-hills that lie at the base of some
+Alpine country may look high when seen from the plain,
+as long as the snowy summits are wrapped in mist; but
+when a little puff of wind comes and clears away the fog
+from the lofty peaks, nobody looks at the little green hills
+in front. So the world's hindrances and the world's difficulties
+and cares look very lofty till the cloud lifts. But
+when we see the great white summits, everything lower
+does not seem so very high after all. Look to Jesus,
+and that will dwarf the difficulties.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Are there not twelve hours in the day? John xi. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.&mdash;<i>William
+Arnot.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. Matt. xxvi. 39.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There are no disappointments to those whose wills are
+buried in the will of God.&mdash;<i>Faber.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The living God. Dan. vi. 20.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>How many times we find this expression in the
+Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are
+so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written "<i>the
+living God</i>"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything
+we practically so much lose sight of as the fact
+that God is <span class="smcap">The Living God</span>; that He is now whatever
+He was three or four thousand years since; that He has
+the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards
+those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that
+He will do for them now what He did for others two,
+three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the
+living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we
+should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments
+never lose sight of the fact that He <i>is</i> still and ever <i>will
+be</i> <span class="smcap">The Living God</span>!&mdash;<i>George M&uuml;ller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like
+as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even
+so we also should walk in newness of life. Rom. vi. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is
+the life it is our privilege to lead; for God never gives
+us a call without its being a privilege, and He never
+gives us the privilege to come up higher without
+stretching out to us His hand to lift us up. Come up
+higher and higher into the realities and glories of the
+resurrection life, knowing that your life is hid with
+Christ in God. Shake yourself loose of every incumbrance,
+turn your back on every defilement, give yourself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>
+over like clay to the hands of the potter, that He
+may stamp upon you the fulness of His own resurrection
+glory, that you, beholding as in a mirror the glory
+of the Lord, may be changed from glory to glory as by
+the Spirit of the Lord.&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />January 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Christ is all, and in all. Col. iii. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+The <i>service</i> of Christ is the <i>business</i> of my life.<br />
+The <i>will</i> of Christ is the <i>law</i> of my life.<br />
+The <i>presence</i> of Christ is the <i>joy</i> of my life.<br />
+The <i>glory</i> of Christ is the <i>crown</i> of my life.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/feb.png" width="600" height="89" alt="February" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not
+know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God?
+Then may the Lord's mercy show thee thy misery. A
+prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping
+of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting
+believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep
+in Jesus.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy
+temple in the Lord. Eph. ii. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The life-tabernacle is a wondrous building; there is
+room for workers of all kinds in the uprearing of its
+mysterious and glorious walls. If we cannot do the
+greatest work, we may do the least. Our heaven will
+come out of the realization of the fact that it was God's
+tabernacle we were building, and under God's blessing
+that we were working.&mdash;<i>Joseph Parker.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Love not the world. 1 John ii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of
+Him who gave His Son to die for it. Love it with the
+love of Him who shed His blood for it. Love it with
+the love of angels, who rejoice in its conversion. Love
+it to do it good, giving your tears to its sufferings, your
+pity to its sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your
+prayers to its miseries, and to its fields of charity, and
+philanthropy, and Christian piety, your powers and
+hours of labor. You cannot live without affecting it,
+or being affected by it. You will make the world better,
+or it will make you worse.</p>
+
+<p>God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live
+in the world as to live above it, and look beyond it; and
+so to love it that when you leave it, you may leave it
+better than you found it.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living
+thing. Psa. cxlv. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Desire, it is a dainty word! It were much that He
+should satisfy the <i>need</i>, the <i>want;</i> but He goeth far
+beyond that. Pity is moved to meet our need; duty
+may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the
+<i>desire</i> implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and
+gracious knowledge of us, an eagerness of blessing.
+God is never satisfied until He has satisfied our desires.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the
+Lord.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of
+Zion. Psa. cxxxiv. 1, 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If I would know the love of my friend, I must see
+what it can do in the winter. So with the divine love.
+It is very easy for me to worship in the summer sunshine,
+when the melodies of life are in the air and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+fruits of life are on the tree. But let the song of the
+bird cease, and the fruit of the tree fall; and will my
+heart still go on to sing? Will I stand in God's house
+by night? Will I love Him in His own night? Will
+I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane?
+Will I help to bear His cross up the Via Dolorosa?
+My love has come to Him in His humiliation. My faith
+has found Him in His lowliness. My heart has recognized
+His majesty through His mean disguise, and I
+know at last that I desire not the gift, but the Giver.
+When I can stand in His house by night, I have accepted
+Him for Himself alone.&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even
+as He walked. 1 John ii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The preaching that this world needs most is the
+<i>sermons in shoes</i> that are walking with Jesus Christ.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea
+vi. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the
+knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through
+all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the
+plain where God's throne is. Our life is a following on to
+know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences
+through which we are called to pass, but afterwards we
+see that they afforded us some new knowledge of our
+Lord.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. We have not to wait for some brighter
+opportunity; but by improvement of the present are to
+build for ourselves a bridge to that future.&mdash;<i>G Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
+father's house. Gen. xii. 1.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Abraham .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. was gathered to his people. Gen. xxv. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+over a great archipelago, each upon his little rock with
+the sea dashing between us; but the time comes when,
+if our hearts are set upon that great Lord whose presence
+makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all
+the isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. If
+we cultivate that sense of detachment from
+the present and of having our true affinities in the unseen,
+if we dwell here as strangers because our citizenship
+is in heaven, then death will not drag us away from
+our associates nor hunt us into a lonely land, but will
+bring us where closer bonds shall knit the "sweet
+societies" together, and the sheep shall couch close by
+one another because all gathered round the one Shepherd.
+Then many a tie shall be re-woven, and the solitary
+wanderer meet again the dear ones whom he had "loved
+long since and lost awhile."&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you.
+Isa. xxx. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This is God's way. In the darkest hours of the night
+His tread draws near across the billows. As the day of
+execution is breaking, the angel comes to Peter's cell.
+When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the royal
+sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the threatened
+race.</p>
+
+<p>Ah, soul, it may have come to the worst with thee ere
+thou art delivered; but thou wilt be! God may keep
+thee waiting, but He will ever be mindful of His covenant,
+and will appear to fulfil His inviolable word.&mdash;<i>F.
+B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue. Luke vii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and
+their inscriptions may be seldom read. <i>Carve your
+names on human hearts;</i> they alone are immortal!&mdash;<i>Theodore
+Cuyler.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As many as I love I .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. chasten. Rev. iii. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of
+a hill. Seeking its cause I saw a little cloud, bright as
+the light, floating in the clear blue above. Thus it is
+with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless here on
+earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a
+shadow of His brightness whose name is Love.&mdash;<i>Dean
+Alford.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>What means these stones? Josh. iv. 21.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Ye also as living stones. 1 Pet. ii. 5. (R. V.)</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar
+about the life and conversation of a Christian that men
+should be compelled to ask, "What does this mean?".&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+Is there anything in your character, words, and
+habits of life so different from the world around you
+that men are involuntarily compelled to ask themselves
+or others, "What does this mean?" Not that there is
+to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for the sake of
+being peculiar; that were merely to copy the pharisaism
+of ancient days.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Oh, that we might realize that
+this is the purpose for which God sends us into the
+world, as He sent His only begotten Son!&mdash;<i>S. A.
+Blackwood.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>All .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. saw his face as it had been the face of an angel
+Acts vi. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The face is made every day by its morning prayer,
+and by its morning look out of windows which open
+upon heaven.&mdash;<i>Joseph Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at
+the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. Num. ix. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+Israelite, in the desert, had taken it into his head to
+make some movement independent of Jehovah; if he
+took it upon him to move when the crowd was at rest,
+or to halt while the crowd was moving, we can easily see
+what the result would have been. And so it will ever
+be with us. If we move when we ought to rest, or rest
+when we ought to move, we shall not have the divine
+presence with us.&mdash;<i>C. H. M.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy
+Spirit of promise. Eph. i. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Lord puts a seal upon His own, that everybody
+may know them. The sealing in your case is the Spirit
+producing in you likeness to the Lord. The holier you
+become, the seal is the more distinct and plain, the more
+evident to every passer-by, for then will men take
+knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus.&mdash;<i>Andrew
+Bonar.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The only preparation for the morrow is the right use
+of to-day. The stone in the hands of the builder must
+be put in its place and fitted to receive another. The
+morrow comes for naught, if to-day is not heeded.
+Neglect not the call that comes to thee this day, for
+such neglect is nothing else than boasting thyself of to-morrow.&mdash;<i>G.
+Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I will help thee, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more
+strength than the omnipotence of the united Trinity?
+Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father,
+more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power
+than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring
+hither thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+Haste, gather up thy wants, and bring them here&mdash;thine
+emptiness, thy woes, thy needs. Behold, this
+river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou
+desire beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might.
+The eternal God is thine helper!&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>To every man his work. Mark xiii. 34.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He does the most for God's great world who does the
+best in his own little world.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. John xxi. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Why was this? Oh, the Lord wants us to minister to
+Him as well as to receive from Him, and our service
+finds its true end when it becomes food for our dear
+Lord. He was pleased to feed on their fish while they
+were feeding on His. It was the double banquet of
+which He speaks in the tender message of revelation,
+"I will sup with him, and he with Me."&mdash;<i>A. B. Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
+he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed. Heb. xi. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Whither he went, he knew not; it was enough for
+him to know that he went with God. He leant not
+so much upon the promises as upon the Promiser.
+He looked not on the difficulties of his lot, but on
+the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise
+God, who had deigned to appoint his course, and
+would certainly vindicate Himself. O glorious faith!
+This is thy work, these are thy possibilities: contentment
+to sail with sealed orders, because of unwavering
+confidence in the love and wisdom of the
+Lord High Admiral: willinghood to rise up, leave
+all, and follow Christ, because of the glad assurance
+that earth's best cannot bear comparison with heaven's
+least.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are
+weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God does not <i>measure</i> what we bring to Him. He
+<i>weighs</i> it.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>After ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions.
+Heb. x. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our boldness for God <i>before the world</i> must always
+be the result of individual dealing with God <i>in secret</i>.
+Our victories over self, and sin, and the world, are
+always first fought where no eye sees but God's.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+If we have not these <i>secret</i> conflicts, well may we not
+have any <i>open</i> ones. The <i>outward</i> absence of conflict
+betrays the <i>inward</i> sleep of the soul.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 23d.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Philip findeth Nathaniel and saith unto him, We have found Him
+of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Come
+and see. John i. 45, 46.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The next thing to knowing that "we have found
+Him" is to find someone else, and say, "Come and
+see."&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
+thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth; so is
+every one that is born of the Spirit. John iii. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We know that the wind listeth to blow where there
+is a vacuum. If you find a tremendous rush of wind,
+you know that somewhere there is an empty space. I
+am perfectly sure about this fact: if we could expel all
+pride, vanity, self-righteousness, self-seeking, desire for
+applause, honor, and promotion&mdash;if by some divine
+power we should be utterly emptied of all that, the
+Spirit would come as a rushing mighty wind to fill us.&mdash;<i>A.
+J. Gordon.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thy gentleness hath made me great. 2 Sam. xxii. 36.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The gentleness of Christ is the comeliest ornament
+that a Christian can wear.&mdash;<i>William Arnot.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. Gen.
+xxxii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is in the path where God has bade us walk that we
+shall find the angels around us. We may meet them,
+indeed, on paths of our own choosing, but it will be the
+sort of angel that Balaam met, with a sword in his
+hand, mighty and beautiful, but wrathful too; and we
+had better not front him! But the friendly helpers,
+the emissaries of God's love, the apostles of His grace,
+do not haunt the roads that we make for ourselves.&mdash;<i>Alex.
+McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
+Father but by me. John xiv. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He
+who made the road thither is our guide, we need not
+fear to lose the way. We do not want to see far ahead&mdash;only
+far enough to discern Him and trace His footsteps.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+They who follow Christ, even through
+darkness, will surely reach the Father.&mdash;<i>Henry Van
+Dyke.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />February 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Forgetting those things which are behind .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I press toward
+the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
+Phil. iii. 13, 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is not by <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'regetting'">regretting</ins> what is irreparable that true
+work is to be done, but by making the best of what we
+are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right
+tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we
+are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement&mdash;God's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+doing, though it may be man's misdoing.
+Life is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best
+Christian who makes the fewest false steps. He is the
+best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval
+of mistakes.&mdash;<i>F. W. Robertson.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/mar.png" width="600" height="104" alt="MARCH" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Come up in the morning .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and present thyself unto me in
+the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the
+Lord. This very word <i>morning</i> is as a cluster of rich
+grapes. Let me crush them, and drink the sacred wine.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning! Then God means me to be at my
+best in strength and hope. I have not to climb in my
+weakness. In the night I have buried yesterday's fatigue,
+and in the morning I take a new lease of energy.</p>
+
+<p>Sweet morning! There is hope in its music. Blessed
+is the day whose morning is sanctified! Successful is
+the day whose first victory was won in prayer! Holy is
+the day whose dawn finds thee on the top of the mount!
+Health is established in the morning. Wealth is won
+in the morning. The light is brightest in the morning.
+"Wake, psaltery and harp; I myself will awake early."&mdash;<i>Joseph
+Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. vi. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The most common actions of life, its every day and
+hour, are invested with the highest grandeur, when we
+think how they extend their issues into eternity. Our
+hands are now sowing seeds for that great harvest. We
+shall meet again all we are doing and have done. The
+graves shall give up their dead, and from the tombs of
+oblivion the past shall give up all that it holds in keeping,
+to bear true witness for or against us.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of mount
+Seir, unto Kadesh-barnea. Deut. i. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Eleven days, and yet it took them forty years! How
+was this? Alas! we need not travel far for the answer.
+It is only too like ourselves. How slowly we get over
+the ground! What windings and turnings! How often
+we have to go back and travel over the same ground,
+again and again. We are slow travelers because we are
+slow learners. Our God is a faithful and wise, as well
+as a gracious and patient Teacher. He will not permit
+us to pass cursorily over our lessons. Sometimes, perhaps,
+we think we have mastered a lesson and we attempt
+to move on to another, but our wise Teacher
+knows better, and He sees the need of deeper ploughing.
+He will not have us mere theorists or smatterers;
+He will keep us, if need be, year after year at our scales
+until we learn to sing.&mdash;<b>C. H. M.</b></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
+and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John i. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The same moment which brings the consciousness of
+sin ought to bring also the confession of it and the consciousness
+of forgiveness.&mdash;<i>Smith.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. Josh. v. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Surely Israel might now face the foe with unwavering
+confidence, and sing of victory even before the battle
+was gained. And so may the Christian. It is to no
+conflict of uncertain issue that he advances; the result
+of the battle is not doubtful. The struggle may be severe,
+the warfare long; he may sometimes, like the pilgrim,
+be beaten to the ground, and well-nigh lose his
+sword; but "though cast down" he is "not destroyed."
+The Captain of salvation is on his side, and in the midst
+of sharpest conflict he can say, "Thanks be unto God,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus
+Christ."&mdash;<i>S. A. Blackwood.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. i. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Live in Christ, and you are in the suburbs of heaven.
+There is but a thin wall between you and the land of
+praises. You are within one hour's sailing of the shore
+of the new Canaan.&mdash;<i>William Rutherford.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that sent me is with me; the Father hath not left me alone, for I
+do always those things that please Him. John viii. 29.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He who holds nearest communion with heaven can
+best discharge the duties of everyday life.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thess. v. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In order that you may not quench the Spirit, you
+must make it a constant study to know what is the mind
+of the Spirit. You must discriminate with the utmost
+care between His suggestions and the suggestions of
+your own deceitful heart. You will keep in constant
+recollection what are the offices of the Spirit as described
+by Christ in the Gospel of John. You will be
+on your guard against impulsive movements, inconsiderate
+acts, rash words. You will abide in prayer. Search
+the Word. Confess Christ on all possible occasions.
+Seek the society of His people. Shrink from conformity
+to the world, its vain fashions, unmeaning etiquette.
+Be scrupulous in your reading. "What I say
+unto you, I say unto all, watch!" "Have oil in your
+lamps." "Quench not the Spirit."&mdash;<i>Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When He cometh into the world, He saith,.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. A body hast
+Thou prepared me. Heb. x. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This word of Christ must be adopted by each of His
+followers. Nothing will help us to live in this world
+and keep ourselves unspotted but the Spirit that was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+in Christ, that looked upon His body as prepared by
+God for His service; that looks upon our body as prepared
+by Him too, that we might offer it to Him. Like
+Christ, we too have a body in which the Holy Spirit
+dwells. Like Christ, we too must yield our body, with
+every member, every power, every action, to fulfil His
+will, to be offered up to Him, to glorify Him. Like
+Christ, we must prove in our body that we are holy to
+the Lord.&mdash;<i>Andrew Murray.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Full of [satisfied with] years. Gen. xxv. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Scaffoldings are for buildings, and the moments and
+days and years of our earthly lives are scaffolding.
+What are you building inside it? What kind of a
+structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is
+knocked away? Days and years are ours, that they
+may give us what eternity cannot take away&mdash;a character
+built upon the love of God in Christ, and moulded
+into His likeness.</p>
+
+<p>Has your life helped you to do that? If so, you have
+got the best out of it, and your life is completed, whatever
+may be the number of its days. Quality, not
+quantity, is the thing that determines the perfectness of
+a life. Has your life this completeness?&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Fruit ripened in the sun is sweetest.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you,
+and ye shall be witnesses unto Me. Acts i. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Look at it! Think of it! A hundred and twenty
+men and women having no patronage, no promise of
+any earthly favor, no endowment, no wealth&mdash;a company
+of men and women having to get their living by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+common daily toil, and busied with all the household
+duties of daily life&mdash;and yet <i>they</i> are to begin the conquests
+of Christianity! To them is entrusted a work
+which is to turn the world upside down. None so
+exalted but the influence of this lowly company shall
+reach to them, until the throne of the C&aelig;sars is claimed
+for Christ. None so far off but the power of this little
+band gathered in an upper room shall extend to them
+until the whole world is knit into a brotherhood! Not
+a force is there on the earth, either of men or devils,
+but they shall overcome it, until every knee shall bow
+to their Master, and every tongue shall confess that He
+is Lord.</p>
+
+<p>A thing impossible, absurd, look at it as you will,
+until you admit this&mdash;<i>they are to be filled with the
+Holy Ghost</i>. Then difficulties melt into the empty
+air. Then there is no limit to their hopes, for there is
+no limit to their power. Their strength is not only "as
+the strength of ten," it is as the strength of the Almighty.</p>
+
+<p>This is Christ's idea of Christianity; the idea not of
+man&mdash;it is infinitely too sublime&mdash;the idea of God!&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
+fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. John xv. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Too much taken up with our work, we may forget our
+Master; it is possible to have the hand full, and the
+heart empty. Taken up with our Master we cannot
+forget our work; if the heart is filled with His love,
+how can the hands not be active in His service?&mdash;<i>Adolphe
+Monod.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. John vi. 57.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>To feed on Christ is to get His strength into us to be
+our strength. You feed on the corn field, and the
+strength of the corn field comes into you, and is your<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+strength. You feed on Christ, and then go and live
+your life; and it is Christ in you that lives your life,
+that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the
+battles, and that wins the crown.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />Match 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I sought Him, but I found Him not. Song of Sol. iii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I
+will tell you the most likely place to find Him. Have
+you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer?
+Then it is there you must seek and find Him. Did you
+lose Christ by sin? You will find Him in no other
+way than by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by
+the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the
+lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the
+Scriptures? You must find Him in the Scriptures.
+It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you
+dropped it; it is there." So look for Christ where you
+lost Him, for He has not gone away.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Come behind in no gift. 1 Cor. i. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Scripture gives four names to Christians, taken
+from the four cardinal graces so essential to man's salvation:
+<i>Saints</i> for their holiness, <i>believers</i> for their
+faith, <i>brethren</i> for their love, <i>disciples</i> for their knowledge.&mdash;<i>Thomas
+Fuller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They rest not day and night. Rev. iv. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>O blessed rest! When we rest not day and night,
+saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!"&mdash;when
+we shall rest from sin, but not from worship;
+from suffering and sorrow, but not from joy! O blessed
+day, when I shall rest with God; when I shall rest in
+knowing, loving, rejoicing, and praising; when my perfect
+soul and body shall together perfectly enjoy the
+most perfect God; when God, who is love itself, shall<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>
+perfectly love me, and rest in His love to me, and I
+shall rest in my love to Him; when He shall rejoice
+over me with joy, and joy over me with singing, and I
+shall rejoice in Him!&mdash;<b>Baxter.</b></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall
+mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and
+they shall walk, and not faint. Isa. xl. 31.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry
+itself as to how it is to cross rivers.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Their eyes were holden. Luke xxiv. 16.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Their eyes were opened. Luke xxiv. 31.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p>There is much precious significance in this. The
+Lord is often present in our lives in things that we do
+not dream possess any significance. We are asking
+God about something which needs His mighty working,
+and the very instrument by which He is to work is by
+our side, perhaps for weeks and months and years all
+unrecognized, until suddenly, some day it grows luminous
+and glorious with the very presence of the Lord,
+and becomes the mighty instrument of His victorious
+working. He loves to show His hand through the
+unexpected. Often he keeps us from seeing His way
+until just before He opens it, and then, immediately
+that it is unfolded, we find that He was walking by our
+side in the very thing, long before we even suspected
+its meaning.&mdash;<i>A. B. Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>All things work together for good to them that love God. Rom. viii. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find
+God in all our circumstances.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
+Ps. xxiii. 3.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He always has a purpose in His leading. He knows
+where the bits of green pasture are, and He would lead
+His flock to these. The way may be rough, but it is the
+right way to the pasture. "Paths of righteousness"
+may not be straight paths; but they are paths that lead
+somewhere&mdash;to the right place. Many desert paths are
+illusive. They start out clear and plain, but soon they
+are lost in the sands. They go nowhere. But the
+paths of righteousness have a goal to which they unerringly
+lead.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him
+whom thou wilt send. Ex. iv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It was a very grudging assent. It was as much as to
+say, "Since Thou art determined to send me and I must
+undertake the mission, then let it be so; but I would
+that it might have been another, and I go because I am
+compelled." So often do we shrink back from the sacrifice
+or obligation to which God calls us, that we think
+we are going to our doom. We seek every reason for
+evading the divine will, little realizing that He is forcing
+us out from our quiet homes into a career which includes,
+among other things, the song of victory on the
+banks of the Red Sea; the two lonely sojourns for forty
+days in converse with God; the shining face; the vision
+of glory; the burial by the hand of Michael; and the
+supreme honor of standing beside the Lord on the
+Transfiguration mount.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>See then that ye walk circumspectly. Eph. v. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is no such thing as negative influence. We
+are all positive in the place we occupy, making the
+world better or making it worse.&mdash;<i>T. DeWitt Talmage.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>She took for him an ark of bulrushes .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and she laid it in
+the flags by the river's brink. Ex. ii. 3.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The mother of Moses laid the ark in the flags by the
+river's brink. Ay, but before doing so, she laid it on
+the heart of God! She could not have laid it so courageously
+upon the Nile, if she had not first devoutly
+laid it upon the care and love of God.</p>
+
+<p>We are often surprised at the outward calmness of
+men who are called upon to do unpleasant and most trying
+deeds; but could we have seen them in secret, we
+should have known the moral preparation which they
+underwent before coming out to be seen by men. Be
+right in the sanctuary, if you would be right in the
+market-place. Be steadfast in prayer, if you would be
+calm in affliction. Start your race from the throne of
+God itself, if you would run well, and win the prize.&mdash;<i>Joseph
+Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
+Gal. vi. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. John xvii. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Was the work of the Master indeed done? Was not
+its heaviest task yet to come? He had not yet met the
+dread hour of death. Why did He say that His work
+was done? It was because He knew that, when the will
+is given, the battle is ended. He was only in the
+shadows of the garden; but to conquer these shadows
+was already to conquer all. He who has willed to die
+has already triumphed over death. All that remains to
+Him is but the outer husk, the shell.</p>
+
+<p>The cup which our Father giveth us to drink is a cup
+for the will. It is easy for the lips to drain it when
+once the heart has accepted it. Not on the heights of
+Calvary, but in the shadows of Gethsemane is the cup
+presented; the act is easy after the choice. The real<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+battle-field is in the silence of the spirit. Conquer
+there, and thou art crowned.&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A great multitude .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. stood before the throne. Rev. vii. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>A <i>station on the feet</i> in front of the throne in <i>heaven</i>
+is the effect of being often <i>on the knees</i> before the
+throne on <i>earth</i>.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from
+the darkness. Gen. i. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a
+<i>division is necessary</i>. Light and darkness have no communion;
+God has divided them, let us not confound
+them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with
+deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children
+of the day must be sober, honest, and bold in their
+Lord's work, leaving the works of darkness to those who
+shall dwell in it forever.</p>
+
+<p>We should by our distinct separation from the world
+divide the light from the darkness. In judgment, in
+action, in hearing, in teaching, in association, we must
+discern between the precious and the vile, and maintain
+the great distinction which the Lord made upon
+the world's first day.</p>
+
+<p>O Lord Jesus, be Thou our light throughout the
+whole of this day, for Thy light is the light of men.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and
+more unto the perfect day. Prov. iv. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge
+now? Am I progressing in it? Do I feel some
+dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts
+of the full day of glory? Let all God's dealings serve
+to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+please Him to send, be as the moving pillar-cloud of old,
+beckoning me to move my tent onward, saying, "Arise
+ye and depart, for this is not your rest." Let me be
+often standing now on faith's lofty eminences, looking
+for "the day of God"&mdash;the rising sun which is to set no
+more in weeping clouds. Wondrous progression! How
+will all earth's learning, its boasted acquirements and
+eagle-eyed philosophy sink into the lispings of very infancy
+in comparison with this manhood of knowledge!
+Heaven will be the true "<i>Excelsior</i>," its song, "<i>a song
+of degrees</i>," Jesus leading His people from height to
+height of glory, and saying, as He said to Nathaniel,
+"<i>Thou shalt see </i><span class="smcap">greater</span><i> things than these!</i>"&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our
+vineyards are in blossom. Song of Sol. ii. 15. (R. V.)</i></p></div>
+
+<p>How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises
+with the world; disobedience to the still, small
+voice in little things; little indulgences of the flesh to
+the neglect of duty; little strokes of policy; doing evil
+in little things that good may come; and the beauty,
+and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed!&mdash;<i>J.
+Hudson Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />March 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The children of your Father which is in heaven. Matt. v. 45.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The best name by which we can think of God is
+Father. It is a loving, deep, sweet, heart-touching
+name, for the name of father is in its nature full
+of inborn sweetness and comfort. Therefore, also, we
+must confess ourselves children of God, for by this
+name we deeply touch our God, since there is not a
+sweeter sound to the father than the voice of the
+child.&mdash;<i>Martin Luther.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/apr.png" width="600" height="100" alt="APRIL" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In the morning came the word of the Lord unto me. Ezek. xii. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning
+of the day is the best beginning for the toils and cares
+of active business. A brief season of prayer, looking
+above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking
+for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry
+our religion into the business of the day. It brings
+joy and peace within the heart. And as we place all
+our concerns in the care and keeping of the Lord, faithfully
+striving to do His will, we have a joyful trust that
+however dark or discouraging events may appear, our
+Father's hand is guiding everything, and will give the
+wisest direction to all our toils.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and
+breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
+soul. Gen. ii. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>And so this soul of mine is a compound of two
+worlds&mdash;dust and deity! It touches the boundary line of
+two hemispheres. It is allied on one side to the divine;
+on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is
+from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is
+started from the dust of the ground, but it is finished
+in the breath of God.</p>
+
+<p>My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin?
+Art thou remembering thy double parentage, and therefore
+thy double duty? Thou hast a duty to thy God,
+for His breath is in thee; thou hast a duty to the earth,
+for out of it wast thou taken.&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Always rejoicing. 2 Cor. vi. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>No Christian can ever know what is meant by those<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>
+two little words, "always rejoicing," but the Christian
+who takes up his cross and follows Jesus.&mdash;<i>W. Hay
+Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>All the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed
+forever. Gen. xiii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One
+leads up to another, fuller and more blessed than itself.
+In Mesopotamia God said, "I will show thee the land."
+At Bethel, "This is the land." Here, "I will give thee
+all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of
+sand." And we shall find even these eclipsed.</p>
+
+<p>It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not
+giving anything till we have dared to act&mdash;that He
+may test us. Not giving everything at first&mdash;that He
+may not overwhelm us. And always keeping in hand
+an infinite reserve of blessing. Oh, the unexplored
+remainders of God! Whoever saw His last star?&mdash;<i>F.
+B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>That night they caught nothing. John xxi. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God may let the sinful world succeed in their forbidden
+schemes, but, blessed be His name, He does not
+allow His chosen ones to prosper in the path which
+leads them out of His holy will! He has a storm to
+send after every Jonah, and an empty net for every unbelieving
+and inconsistent Simon.&mdash;<i>A. B. Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard
+have I not kept. Song of Sol. i. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is
+preeminently one of this day: the intense activity of
+our times may lead to zeal in service <i>to the neglect of
+personal communion;</i> but such neglect will not only
+lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate
+us for the highest service.&mdash;<i>J. Hudson Taylor.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>We came unto the land whither thou sentest us .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. we saw the
+children of Anak there. Num. xiii. 27, 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is when we are in the way of <i>duty</i> that we find
+<i>giants</i>. It was when Israel was going <i>forward</i> that the
+giants appeared. When they turned back into the wilderness
+they found none.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Each one resembled the children of a king. Judg. viii. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Frances Ridley Havergal says: "If the King is indeed
+near of kin to us, the royal likeness will be recognizable."</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside
+the still waters. Psa. xxiii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This suggests the rest into which our Good Shepherd
+leads His flock. Life is not all toil. God gives us
+many quiet resting-places in our pilgrim way.</p>
+
+<p>Night is one of these, when, after the day's toil, struggle,
+and exhaustion, we are led aside, and the curtains
+are drawn to shut out the noise, and He giveth His
+beloved sleep, in sleep giving the wonderful blessings
+of renewal. The Sabbath is another of these quiet
+resting-places. God would have us drop our worldly
+tasks, and have a day for the refreshing of both body
+and soul.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Friendship's trysts are also quiet
+resting-places, where heart may commune with heart,
+where Jesus comes, too, unseen, and gives His blessing.
+All ordinances of Christian worship&mdash;seasons of prayer
+and devotion, hours of communion with God&mdash;are quiet
+resting-places.</p>
+
+<p>Far more than we are apt to realize do we need these
+silent times in our busy life, needing them all the more
+the busier the life may be.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>One staff aids a traveler, but a bundle of staves is a
+heavy burden.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Gal.
+vi. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>However perplexed you may at any hour become
+about some question of truth, one refuge and resource
+is always at hand: you can do something for some one
+beside yourself. At the times when you cannot see
+God, there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to
+<i>show</i> God: for it is the love and kindness of human
+hearts through which the divine reality comes home to
+men, whether they name it or not. Let this thought,
+then, stay with you: there may be times when you cannot
+<i>find</i> help, but there is no time when you cannot
+<i>give</i> help.&mdash;<i>George Merriam.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is
+God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
+Phil. ii. 12, 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is not your business and mine to study whether we
+shall get to heaven, or even to study whether we shall
+be good men; it is our business to study how we shall
+come into the midst of the purposes of God and have
+the unspeakable privilege in these few years of doing
+something of His work.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>God .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
+knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. iv. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Christian! rest not until thou knowest the full, the unbroken
+shining of God in thy heart. To this end,
+yield to every stirring of it that shows thee some unconquered
+and perhaps unconquerable evil. Just bring<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>
+it to the light; let the light shine upon it, and shine it
+out. Wait upon the Lord more than watchers for the
+morning, for "the path of the just is as the shining
+light, shining more and more unto the perfect day."
+Count upon it that God wants to fill thee with the light
+of His glory: wait on Him more than watchers for the
+morning. "Wait, I say, on the Lord."&mdash;<i>Andrew Murray.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My soul, wait thou only upon God. Psa. lxii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Did it ever occur to you that if you do not hear God's
+answer to prayer, it may be not because He is dumb,
+but because you are deaf; not because He has no answer
+to give, but because you have not been listening
+for it? We are so busy with our service, so busy with
+our work, and sometimes so busy with our praying, that
+it does not occur to us to stop our own talking and listen
+if God has some answer to give us with "the still
+small voice"; to be passive, to be quiet, to do nothing,
+say nothing, in some true sense think nothing; simply
+to be receptive and waiting for the voice. "Wait thou
+only upon God," says the Psalmist; and again "Wait
+on the Lord."&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Could ye not watch with me one hour? Matt. xxvi. 40.</i></p></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Oh! ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power,<br />
+Heed ye this gentle whisper, "Could ye not watch one hour?"<br />
+To fruitfulness and blessing, there is no "royal road";<br />
+The power for holy service is intercourse with God.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John iv. 34.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work.&mdash;<i>Phillips
+Brooks.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good
+pleasure. Phil. ii. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Full salvation is to realize that everything we see in
+Christ, our Example, may be ours, not by imitation, but
+by reproduction.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Lo, I am with you all the days. Matt, xxviii. 20. (R. V., margin.)</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">All the days</span>"&mdash;in winter days, when joys are fled;
+in sunless days, when the clouds return again and again
+after rain; in days of sickness and pain; in days of temptation
+and perplexity, as much as in days when the heart is
+as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song.
+That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the
+side of His saints. Lover and friend may stand afar,
+but He walks with them through the fires; He fords
+with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to
+face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must
+always add His resources to our own when making our
+calculations.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Having .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood
+of Jesus .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. let us draw near with a true heart. Heb. x. 19, 22.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Oh, the glory of the message! For fifteen centuries
+Israel had a sanctuary with a Holiest of All, into which,
+under pain of death, no one might enter. Its one witness
+was: Man cannot dwell in God's presence; cannot
+abide in His fellowship. And now how changed is all!
+As then the warning sounded: "No admittance! enter
+not!" so now the call goes forth: "Enter in! the veil is
+rent; the Holiest is open; God waits to welcome you to
+His bosom; henceforth you are to live with Him."
+This is the message. Child! thy Father longs for thee
+to enter, to dwell, and to go out no more forever.&mdash;<i>Andrew
+Murray.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>There stood by me this night the angel of God .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. saying,
+Fear not, Paul.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. God hath given thee all them that sail with
+thee. Wherefore .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it
+shall be even as it was told me. Acts xxvii. 23, 24, 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though
+it be not yet performed; knowing that God's bonds are
+as good as ready money.&mdash;<i>Matthew Henry.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
+your requests be made known unto God. Phil, iv. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The natural temptation with every difficulty is to
+plan for it, to put it out of the way yourself; but stop
+short with all your planning, your thinking, your worry,
+and talk to Him! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
+and He shall sustain thee." You may not always be
+able to do this in a moment or two. Then keep on
+with supplication until you know He has it, and prayer
+becomes praise. Rest, trust, and wait, and see how He
+does that which you wanted to do, and had so much
+care about. "Stand still and see the salvation of the
+Lord."&mdash;<i>A. E. Funk.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They that wait upon the Lord shall .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. mount up with wings
+as eagles. Isa. xl. 31.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>All creatures that have wings can escape from every
+snare that is set for them, if only they will fly high
+enough; and the soul that uses its wings can always find
+a sure "way to escape" from all that can hurt or trouble
+it.&mdash;<i>Smith.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Perfect love casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Fear and love rise up in antagonism to each other as
+motives in life, like those two mountains from which respectively
+the blessings and curses of the old law were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+pronounced&mdash;the Mount of Cursing all barren, stony,
+without verdure and without water; the Mount of Blessing
+green and bright with many a flower, and blessed
+with many a trickling rill. Fear is barren. Love is
+fruitful. The one is a slave, and its work is little worth.
+The other is free, and its deeds are great and precious.
+From the blasted summit of the mountain which gendereth
+to bondage may be heard the words of the law;
+but the power to keep all these laws must be sought on
+the sunny hill where liberty dwells in love and gives
+energy to obedience. Therefore, if you would use in
+your own life the highest power that God has given us
+for our growth in grace, draw your arguments, not from
+fear, but from love.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor. v. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The love of Christ is too large for any heart to hold it.
+It will overflow into others' hearts: it will give itself out,
+give itself away, for the enriching of other lives. The
+heart of Christ is a costly thing for any one to have. It
+will lead those who have it where it led Him. If it
+cost Him the cross, it will cost them no less.&mdash;<i>J. M.
+Campbell.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear
+not, I will help thee. Isa. xli. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Don't try to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours.
+Let Him do the <i>holding</i>, and you do the <i>trusting</i>.&mdash;<i>H.
+W. Webb Peploe.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Consider how great things He hath done for you. 1 Sam. xii. 24.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Look back on all the way the Lord your God has led
+you. Do you not see it dotted with ten thousand blessings
+in disguise? Call to mind the needed succor sent
+at the critical moment; the right way chosen for you, in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+stead of the wrong way you had chosen for yourself; the
+hurtful thing to which your heart so fondly clung, removed
+out of your path; the breathing-time granted,
+which your tried and struggling spirit just at the
+moment needed. Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side
+when you knew it not? Has not Infinite Love encircled
+every event with its everlasting arms, and gilded every
+cloud with its merciful lining? Oh, retrace your steps,
+and mark His footprint in each one! Thank Him for
+them all, and learn the needed lesson of leaning more
+simply on Jesus.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. said .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. hid thy talent in the earth.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and
+slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 24-26.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Between the great things we cannot do and the small
+things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do
+nothing.&mdash;<i>Monod.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>To Him be glory both now and forever. 2 Pet. iii. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall
+join the saints above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but
+are you glorifying Him <i>now?</i> The apostle's words are,
+"To Him be glory both <i>now</i> and forever."&mdash;<i>C. H. Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou shall know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed
+that wait for me. Isa. xlix. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>J. Hudson Taylor says: "Quiet waiting before God
+could save from many a mistake and from many a
+sorrow."</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />April 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. Matt. xv. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Oh, the victories of prayer! They are the mountain-tops
+of the Bible. They take us back to the plains of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span>
+Mamre, to the fords of Peniel, to the prison of Joseph,
+to the triumphs of Moses, to the transcendent victories
+of Joshua, to the deliverances of David, to the miracles
+of Elijah and Elisha, to the whole story of the Master's
+life, to the secret of Pentecost, to the key-note of Paul's
+unparalleled ministry, to the lives of saints and the deaths
+of martyrs, to all that is most sacred and sweet in the
+history of the Church and the experience of the children
+of God. And when, for us, the last conflict shall have
+passed, and the footstool of prayer shall have given
+place to the harp of praise, the spots of time that shall
+be gilded with the most celestial and eternal radiance,
+shall be those, often linked with deepest sorrow and
+darkest night, over which we have the inscription,
+"Jehovah-Shammah: The Lord was there!"&mdash;<i>A. B.
+Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/may.png" width="600" height="100" alt="MAY" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou art my God: early will I seek Thee. Psa. lxiii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In a world where there is so much to ruffle the spirit's
+plumes, how needful that entering into the secret of
+God's pavilion, which will alone bring it back to composure
+and peace! In a world where there is so much to
+sadden and depress, how blessed the communion with
+Him in whom is the one true source and fountain of all
+true gladness and abiding joy! In a world where so
+much is ever seeking to unhallow our spirits, to render
+them common and profane, how high the privilege of
+consecrating them anew in prayer to holiness and to
+God.&mdash;<i>Archbishop Trench.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. John i. 4.
+Ye are the light of the world. Matt. v. 14.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the light we can walk and work. We walk in the
+light and become entirely children of light. We let our
+light, the light of God, shine, so that men may see our
+good works, and glorify our Father in heaven. Gently,
+silently, lovingly, unceasingly, we give ourselves to
+transmit the light and the love God so unceasingly
+shines into us. Our one work is to wait, and admit, and
+then transmit the light of God in Christ.&mdash;<i>Andrew
+Murray.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 3d.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the
+Lord. 1 Cor. xv. 58.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Activity in doing good is one recipe for being cheerful
+Christians; it is like exercise to the body, and it keeps
+the soul in health.&mdash;<i>Bishop Ryle.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Looking up to heaven He sighed. Mark vii. 34.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Too often we sigh and look within; Jesus sighed and
+looked without. We sigh, and look down; Jesus sighed,
+and looked up. We sigh, and look to earth; Jesus
+sighed, and looked to heaven. We sigh, and look to
+man; Jesus sighed, and looked to God.&mdash;<i>Stork.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>We glory in tribulations. Rom. v. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Have you ever thought that some day you will never
+have anything to try you or anybody to vex you again?&mdash;<i>A.
+B. Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Col.
+iii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He who has his affections set on things above is like
+one who hangs on by the skies; and, having a secure
+hold of these, could say, though he saw the world roll
+away from beneath his feet, "My heart is fixed; my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+heart is fixed; O Lord, I will sing and give praise!"&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. Luke
+xxiv. 34.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>They .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. gladly received (Peter's) word; and the same day
+there were added unto them about three thousand souls. Acts ii. 41.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Before the Lord can use us in His service we must
+have close individual dealing with Himself. He always
+will have to do in <i>secret</i> with that soul that He intends
+to use in blessing others.</p>
+
+<p>Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you?
+Then you must go to Jesus Himself for your message.
+What you say <i>for</i> Jesus must be got <i>from</i> Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, how much breath falls powerless on every side
+because it has not been inhaled in the sanctuary! We
+want more secret dealing with the living God. We run
+without being sent: we speak before God has spoken to
+us: no wonder we so often fail. Oh, what secret prayer
+and what heart-searching discipline the heart needs
+before God can use it!&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul. Prov. xiii. 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Christ must satisfy; then, if we are not satisfied, it
+must be because we are not feeding on Him wholly and
+only. The fault is not in the provision which is made.&mdash;<i>Frances
+Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It has been well said that "earthly cares are a heavenly
+discipline," but they are even something better
+than discipline; they are God's chariots, sent to take the
+soul to its high places of triumph. In the Canticles we
+are told of "a chariot paved with love." We cannot always
+see the love lining to our own particular chariot&mdash;it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+often looks very unlovely; but every chariot sent by
+God must necessarily be paved with love, since God is
+love. It is His love, indeed, that sends the chariot.</p>
+
+<p>Look upon your chastenings, then, no matter how
+grievous they may be for the present, as God's chariots,
+sent to carry your souls into the "high places" of spiritual
+achievement and uplifting, and you will find that
+they are, after all, "paved with love."&mdash;<i>Smith.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
+1 John i. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Learn a lesson from the eye of the miner, who all day
+long is working amid the flying coal dust. When he
+emerges in the light of day his face may be grimy
+enough; but his eyes are clear and lustrous, because the
+fountain of tears in the lachrymal gland is ever pouring
+its gentle tides over the eye, cleansing away each speck
+of dust as soon as it alights.</p>
+
+<p>Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits
+need in such a world as this? And this is what our
+blessed Lord is prepared to do for us by His cleansing
+blood, if only we will trust Him.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whatsoever He sayeth unto you, do it. John ii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Florence Nightingale said: "If I could give you information
+of my life, it would be to show how a woman
+of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange
+and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He
+has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would
+see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have
+worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused
+God anything."</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I know how to abound. Phil. iv. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is a dangerous thing to be prosperous. The crucible<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+of adversity is a less severe trial to the Christian
+than the refining-pot of prosperity. It needs more than
+human skill to carry the brimming cup of mortal joy
+with a steady hand; yet Paul had learned that skill, for
+he declares, "In all things I am instructed both to be
+full and to be hungry." When we have much of God's
+providential mercies it often happens that we have but
+little of God's grace; satisfied with earth, we are content
+to do without heaven. Rest assured, it is harder to
+know how to be full than it is to know how to be hungry,
+so desperate is the tendency of human nature to
+pride and forgetfulness of God. Take care that you
+ask in your prayers that God would teach you "how to
+be full."&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth
+himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. If you ask the way to the crown&mdash;'tis by the
+cross; to the mountain&mdash;'tis by the valley; to exaltation
+'tis he that humbleth himself.&mdash;<i>J. H. Evans.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
+through the truth. John xvii. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do you remember, when Jesus was sitting with His
+disciples at the last supper, how He lifted up His voice
+and prayed, and in the midst of His prayer there came
+these wondrous words: "For their sakes I sanctify
+myself, that they also might be sanctified"? Is there
+anything in all the teachings that man has had from
+the lips of God that is nobler, that is more far-reaching
+than that&mdash;to be my best not simply for my own sake,
+but for the sake of the world? You can help your
+fellow-men&mdash;you must help your fellow-men; but the
+only way you can help them is by being the noblest and
+the best man that it is possible for you to be.&mdash;<i>Phillips
+Brooks.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
+ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Prov. xvi. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>More dear in the sight of God and His angels than
+any other conquest is the conquest of self, which each
+man, with the help of heaven, can secure for himself.&mdash;<i>Dean
+Stanley.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition
+which I asked of Him: therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as
+long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 27, 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God sometimes bestows gifts just that love may have
+something to renounce. The things that He puts into
+our hands are possibly put there that we may have the
+opportunity of showing what is in our heart. Oh, that
+there were in us a fervor of love that would lead us to
+examine everything that belongs to us, to ascertain
+how it might be made a means of showing our affection
+to Christ!&mdash;<i>George Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
+these things shall be added unto you. Matt. vi. 33.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We need have only one care, that we put the first
+thing first&mdash;faithfulness to God. Then all else we need
+for both worlds will be supplied. God will never fail
+us; but we forget, sometimes, in our rejoicing over
+such an assurance, that we must fulfil our part if we
+would claim the divine promise.</p>
+
+<p>It will not always be easy. To-morrow it may mean
+a distasteful task, a disagreeable duty, a costly sacrifice
+for one who does not seem worthy. Life is full of sore
+testings of our willingness to follow the Good Shepherd.
+We have not the slightest right to claim this
+assurance unless we have taken Christ as the guide of
+our life.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psa. xxxiv. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Let not thy praises be transient&mdash;a fit of music, and
+then the instrument hung by the wall till another
+gaudy day of some remarkable providence makes thee
+take it down. God comes not guestwise to His saints'
+house, but to dwell with them. David took this up for
+a life work: "As long as I live, I will praise thee."&mdash;<i>Gurnall.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy
+for me. Num. xi. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is most needful for all servants of Christ to remember
+that whenever the Lord places a man in a position
+of responsibility, He will both fit him for it and maintain
+him in it.</p>
+
+<p>It is, of course, another thing altogether if a man will
+rush unsent into any field of work, or any post of difficulty
+or danger. In such a case we may assuredly look
+for a thorough breakdown, sooner or later. But when
+God calls a man to a certain position, He will endow
+him with the needed grace to occupy it.</p>
+
+<p>This holds good in every case. We can never fail
+if we only cling to the living God. We can never run
+dry if we are drawing from the fountain. Our tiny
+springs will soon dry up; but our Lord Jesus Christ
+declares, "He that believeth in Me, as the Scripture
+hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
+water."&mdash;<i>C. H. M.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone: because I am a man of
+unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for
+mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Isa. vi. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is not the sight of our sinful heart that humbles
+us; it is a sight of Jesus Christ. I am undone because
+mine eyes have seen the King.&mdash;<i>Andrew A. Bonar.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>While I was musing the fire burned. Psa. xxxix. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>My soul, if thou wouldst muse more, the fire would
+burn more. Why dost thou not retire oftener with thyself?
+Thou wouldst be better fitted for the world if
+thou wert less worldly. If thou hadst more heavenly
+fire thou wouldst have more earthly power.</p>
+
+<p>Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go
+and warm thyself? Is there no holy of holies where
+thou canst catch a glow of impulse that will make thee
+strong? Is it not written of the Son of Man that "as He
+<i>prayed</i> the fashion of His countenance was altered"?
+Yes; it was from His prayer that His transfigured glory
+came. It was from the glow of His heart that there
+issued the glow of His countenance. It was when He
+was musing that the fire kindled.</p>
+
+<p>O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified,
+beautified, transfigured to the eyes of men? Get thee
+up into the secret place of God's pavilion, where the
+fires of love are burning. Thy life shall shine gloriously
+to the dwellers on the plain. Thy prayers shall be
+luminous; they shall light thy face like the face of
+Moses when he wist not that it shone. Thy words shall
+be burning; they will kindle many a heart journeying
+on the road to Emmaus. Thy path shall be lambent;
+when thou hast prayed in Elijah's solitude thou shalt
+have Elijah's chariot of fire.&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of
+cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he
+shall in nowise lose his reward. Matt. x. 42.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities
+of doing good and communicating. In reaching for
+rhododendrons we trample down the daisies.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Hide thyself by the brook. 1 Kings xvii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Not by the <i>river</i>, but by the <i>brook</i>. The river would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>
+always contain an abundant supply, but the brook might
+dry up at any moment.</p>
+
+<p>What does this teach us? God does not place His
+people in luxuriance here. The world's abundance
+might withdraw their affections from Him. He gives
+them not the river, but the brook. The brook may be
+running to-day, to-morrow it may be dried up.</p>
+
+<p>And wherefore does God act thus? To teach us that
+we are not to rest in His gifts and blessings, but in
+Himself. This is what our hearts are always doing&mdash;resting
+in the gift, instead of the Giver. Therefore
+God cannot trust us by the river, for it unconsciously
+takes up His place in the heart. It is said of Israel
+that when they were full they forgot God.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>His kingdom ruleth over all. Psa. ciii. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><i>His kingdom ruleth over all</i>&mdash;therefore thou canst
+find nothing which is not matter for praise, since there
+is nothing which is not the matter of thy Lord's gracious
+permission, or planning, or control. <i>Over all</i>&mdash;nowhere
+canst thou step outside His realm, nor in anything
+get beyond His care and government. <i>Over all</i>&mdash;therefore
+take all as from God; hold all as from God;
+and by thy gratitude give all back to God again, and
+thus complete the circle, making Him the Alpha and
+Omega, the Beginning and the Ending of all things.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>If we suffer we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim. ii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The highest bidder for the crown of glory is the lowliest
+wearer of the cross of self-denial.&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Keep thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of
+life. Prov. iv. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He who would keep his heart pure and holy, must<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+plant a sentinel at every avenue by which sin may find
+access there, guarding against none more than the
+"little" sins, as they are called.</p>
+
+<p>The man of God has his <i>eyes</i> to keep, and so Job
+said, "I have made a covenant with mine eyes"&mdash;his
+<i>tongue</i>, and hence the exhortation, "Keep thy tongue
+from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile"&mdash;his <i>ears</i>,
+and hence the warning, "Cease, my son, to hear the
+instruction that causeth to err"&mdash;his <i>feet</i>, and hence
+David says, "I have refrained my feet from every evil
+way, that I might keep Thy word." And since there is
+no gate of the five senses by which the enemy may not
+come in like a flood, unless the Spirit lift up a standard
+against him, we have need to guard every port, and
+write over every portal, "Here there entereth nothing to
+hurt or to defile."&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whatsoever ye do, .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.
+Col. iii. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do little things as if they were great, because of the
+majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ, who dwells in thee;
+and do great things as if they were little and easy,
+because of His omnipotence.&mdash;<i>Pascal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Him they compelled to bear His cross. Matt. xxvii. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There are many Christians of whom this is true.
+They are compelled to bear the cross, but how does it
+come? It comes by their running away from it. They
+make up their minds they won't have Christ's cross; and
+they find when the cross does come that it comes in a
+more terrible form, with a more crushing weight than
+ever it would have come had they only been content to
+submit themselves to the divine direction; for the cross
+has to come to all who are to be prepared for glory hereafter.&mdash;<i>W.
+Hay Aitken.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Our Lord Jesus Christ .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. gave Himself for our sins that He
+might deliver us from this present evil world. Gal. i. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Attachment to Christ is the only secret of detachment
+from the world.&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot
+be hid. Matt. v. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse
+sounds no drum, it beats no gong; and yet far over the
+waters its friendly spark is seen by the mariner. So let
+your actions shine out your religion. Let the main sermon
+of your life be illustrated by all your conduct.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />May 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Without me ye can do nothing. John xv. 5.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>I can do all things, through Christ which strengtheneth me. Phil.
+iv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Apart from Him we can do nothing. Whilst we are
+abiding in Him nothing is impossible. The one purpose
+of our life should therefore be to remain in living
+and intense union with Christ, guarding against everything
+that would break it, employing every means of
+cementing and enlarging it. And just in proportion as
+we do so, we shall find His strength flowing into us for
+every possible emergency. We may not feel its presence;
+but we shall find it present whenever we begin to
+draw on it. There is no temptation which we cannot
+master; no privation which we cannot patiently bear; no
+difficulty with which we cannot cope; no work which we
+cannot perform; no confession or testimony which we
+cannot make, if only our souls are living in healthy
+union with Jesus Christ; for as our day or hour, so
+shall our strength be.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/jun.png" width="600" height="111" alt="JUNE" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. John xx. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We should never leave our room until we have seen
+the face of our dear Master, Christ, and have realized
+that we are being sent forth by Him to do His will, and
+to finish the work which He has given us to do. He
+who said to His immediate followers, "As my Father
+hath sent me, even so send I you," says as much to
+each one of us, as the dawn summons us to live another
+day. We should realize that we are as much sent forth
+by Him as the angels who "do His commandments,
+hearkening unto the voice of His word." There is some
+plan for each day's work, which He will unfold to us, if
+only we will look up to Him to do so; some mission to
+fulfil; some ministry to perform; some lesson patiently
+to learn, that we may be able to "reach others also." As
+to our plans we need not be anxious; because He who
+sends us forth is responsible to make the plan, according
+to His infinite wisdom; and to reveal it to us, however
+dull and stupid our faculties may be. And as to our
+sufficiency, we are secure of having all needful grace;
+because He never sends us forth, except He first
+breathes on us and says, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost."
+There is always a special endowment for special power.&mdash;<i>F.
+B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A fountain .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. for sin and for uncleanness. Zech. xiii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>You that have faith in the Fountain, <i>frequent it</i>.
+Beware of two errors which are very natural and very
+disastrous. Beware of thinking any sin too great for it;
+beware of thinking any sin too small. There is not a
+sin so little, but it may be the germ of everlasting
+perdition; there is not a sin so enormous, but a drop of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span>
+atoning blood will wash it away as utterly as if it were
+drowned in the depths of the sea.&mdash;<i>James Hamilton.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am black .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. as the tents of Kedar. Song of Sol. i. 5.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. Song of Sol. vii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Nothing humbles the soul like sacred and intimate
+communion with the Lord; yet there is a sweet joy in
+feeling that <i>He</i> knows <i>all</i>, and, notwithstanding, loves
+us still.&mdash;<i>J. Hudson Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>David enquired of the Lord. 2 Sam. v. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Christian, if thou wouldst know the path of duty, take
+God for thy compass; if thou wouldst steer thy ship
+through the dark billows, put the tiller into the hand of
+the Almighty. Many a rock might be escaped if we
+would let our Father take the helm; many a shoal or
+quicksand we might well avoid if we would leave it to
+His sovereign will to choose and to command. The
+Puritan said, "As sure as ever a Christian carves for
+himself he'll cut his own fingers." "I will instruct thee
+and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go," is God's
+promise to His people. Let us, then, take all our perplexities
+to Him and say, "Lord, what wilt thou have
+me to do?" Leave not thy chamber this morning
+without <i>enquiring of the Lord</i>.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A certain man .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. who never had walked .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. heard
+Paul speak: who .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
+said .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
+Acts xiv. 8, 9, 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Where true faith is, it will induce obedience and
+where it does induce obedience, it will always, in one
+form or another, bring a blessing.&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I know that .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith
+unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto Him, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. John
+xi. 21, 22, 23, 24.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Beware, in your prayer, above everything, of limiting
+God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you
+know what He can do. Expect unexpected things,
+<i>above all that</i> we ask or think. Each time you intercede,
+be quiet first and worship God in His glory.
+Think of what He can do, of how He delights to hear
+Christ, of your place in Christ; and expect great things.&mdash;<i>Andrew
+Murray.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on
+Christ. Gal. iii. 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Not simply the righteousness of our Savior, not
+simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His
+character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord
+Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a
+Christ-bearer but a Christ-wearer. We are so to enter
+into Him by communion, to be so endued with His
+presence, and embued with His Spirit that men shall
+see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments
+when they look upon our bodies.&mdash;<b>A. J. Gordon.</b></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou shalt never wash my feet. John xiii. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that
+God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but
+the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel
+the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be
+perfected just in the degree in which that grace is
+bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled
+with all the fulness of God, knowing that when so filled
+there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.&mdash;<i>George
+Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. Psa.
+lv. 22.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads
+himself with an uneasy burden. The fear of what <i>may</i> come, expectation of what <i>will</i> come, desire of what will
+<i>not</i> come, and the inability to redress all these, must
+needs bring him continual torment. <i>I</i> will cast my
+cares upon <i>God:</i> He hath bidden me. They cannot
+hurt Him: He can redress them.&mdash;<i>Hall.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Well done, good and faithful servant.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Thou wicked and
+slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 21, 26.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God holds us responsible not for what we <i>have</i>, but
+for what we <i>might have;</i> not for what we <i>are</i>, but for
+what we <i>might</i> be.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship. Matt. xiv. 22.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Jesus <i>constrained</i> them to go! One would think
+that if ever there was the certain promise of success in
+a mission, it was here. Surely, here, if anywhere, a
+triumphant issue might have been confidently predicted;
+and yet here, more than anywhere, there was seeming
+failure. He sent them out on a voyage, and they met
+such a storm as they had never yet experienced.</p>
+
+<p>Let me ponder this, for it has been so with me, too.
+I have sometimes felt myself impelled to act by an influence
+which seemed above me&mdash;constrained to put to
+sea. The belief that I was constrained gave me confidence,
+and I was sure of a calm voyage. But the result
+was outward failure. The calm became a storm; the sea
+raged, the winds roared, the ship tossed in the midst of
+the waves, and my enterprise was wrecked ere it could
+reach the land.</p>
+
+<p>Was, then, my divine command a delusion?</p>
+
+<p>Nay; nor yet was my mission a failure. He did send
+me on that voyage, but He did not send me for <i>my</i> purpose.
+He had one end and I had another. My end
+was the outward calm; His was my meeting with the
+storm. My end was to gain the harbor of a material<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+rest; His was to teach me there is a rest even on the
+open sea.&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
+not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim. ii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work.&mdash;<i>Charles
+Kingsley.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Come out from among them, and be ye separate. 2 Cor. vi. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>With all the world in his choice, God placed His
+ancient people in a very remarkable situation. On the
+north they were walled in by the snowy ranges of Lebanon;
+a barren desert formed their eastern boundary;
+far to the south stretched a sterile region, called the
+howling wilderness; while the sea&mdash;not then, as now,
+the highway of the nations, facilitating rather than impeding
+intercourse&mdash;lay on their west, breaking on a
+shore that had few harbors and no navigable rivers to
+invite the steps of commerce.</p>
+
+<p>May we not find a great truth in the very position in
+which God placed His chosen people? It certainly
+teaches us that to be holy, or sanctified, we must be a
+separate people&mdash;living in the world, but not of it&mdash;as
+oil, that may be mixed, but cannot be combined with
+water.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest,
+and will bring thee again into this land. Gen. xxviii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"With thee," companionship; "Keep thee," guardianship;
+"Bring thee," guidance.</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I have set thee .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the
+ends of the earth. Acts xiii. 47.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Ye shall be witnesses unto me .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. unto the uttermost parts of the
+earth. Acts i. 8.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Men are questioning now, as they never have questioned
+before, whether Christianity is, indeed, the true
+religion which is to be the salvation of the world.
+Christian men, it is for us to give our bit of answer to
+that question. It is for us, in whom the Christian
+church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare
+that Christianity, that the Christian faith, the Christian
+manhood can do that for the world which the world
+needs.</p>
+
+<p>You ask, "What can I do?"</p>
+
+<p>You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish
+a life so faithful to every duty, so ready for every service,
+so determined not to commit every sin, that the
+great Christian church shall be the stronger for your
+living in it, and the problem of the world be answered,
+and a certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed,
+phase of our humanity as it sees that new revelation of
+what Christianity is.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I know whom I have believed. 2 Tim. i. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Personal acquaintance with Christ is a living thing.
+Like a tree that uses every hour for growth, it thrives
+in sunshine, it is refreshed by rain&mdash;even the storm
+drives it to fasten its grip more firmly in the earth for
+its support. So, troubled heart, in all experience, say,
+"This comes that I may make closer acquaintance with
+my Lord."&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with
+one accord in one place .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and they were all filled with the Holy
+Ghost. Acts ii. 1, 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Obedience to a divine prompting transforms it into a
+permanent acquisition.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 1 John
+iv. 16.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The secret of walking closely with Christ, and working
+successfully for Him, is to fully realize that we are
+His beloved. Let us but feel that He has set His heart
+upon us, that He is watching us from those heavens
+with tender interest, that He is working out the mystery
+of our lives with solicitude and fondness, that He
+is following us day by day as a mother follows her babe
+in his first attempt to walk alone, that He has set His
+love upon us, and, in spite of ourselves, is working out
+for us His highest will and blessing, as far as we will
+let Him, and then nothing can discourage us. Our
+hearts will glow with responsive love. Our faith will
+spring to meet His mighty promises, and our sacrifices
+shall become the very luxuries of love for one so dear.
+This was the secret of John's spirit. "We have known
+and believed the love that God hath to us." And the
+heart that has fully learned this has found the secret
+of unbounded faith and enthusiastic service.&mdash;<i>A. B.
+Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Endure .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. ii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Life is not victory, but battle. Be patient a little
+longer. By and by, each in his turn, we shall hear the
+sunset gun.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be my
+disciple. Luke xiv. 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is always the shadow of the cross resting upon
+the Christian's path. Is that a reason why you should
+avoid or not undertake the duty? Have you made up
+your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere
+else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the
+cross? Is that your religion? The sooner you change
+it, the better. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ
+is the religion of the cross, and unless we take up our
+cross, we can never follow Him.&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>These .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. have turned the world upside down. Acts xvii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful
+influence in the world next to the might of God.&mdash;<i>Pascal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br /><ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Jnue'">June</ins> 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
+John xiii. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God keeps a school for His children here on earth
+and one of His best teachers is Disappointment. My
+friend, when you and I reach our Father's house, we
+shall look back and see that the sharp-voiced, rough;
+visaged teacher, Disappointment, was one of the best
+guides to train us for it. He gave us hard lessons; he
+often used the rod; he often led us into thorny paths; he
+sometimes stripped off a load of luxuries; but that only
+made us travel the freer and the faster on our heavenward
+way. He sometimes led us down into the valley
+of the death-shadow; but never did the promises read so
+sweetly as when spelled out by the eye of faith in that
+very valley. Nowhere did he lead us so often, or teach
+us such sacred lessons, as at the cross of Christ. Dear,
+old, rough-handed teacher! We will build a monument
+to thee yet, and crown it with garlands, and inscribe on
+it: <i>Blessed be the memory of Disappointment!</i>&mdash;<i>Theodore
+Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii. 25.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Phil.
+iv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He will not impose upon you one needless burden.
+He will not exact more than He knows your strength
+will bear. He will ask no Peter to come to Him on the
+water, unless He impart at the same time strength and
+support on the unstable waves. He will not ask you
+to draw water if the well is too deep, or to withdraw the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span>
+stone if too heavy. But neither at the same time will
+He admit as an impossibility that which, as a free and
+responsible agent, it is in your power to avert. He will
+not regard as your misfortune what is your crime.&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Acts viii. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The worst of all mockeries is a religion that leaves
+the heart unchanged: a religion that has <i>everything</i> but
+the love of Christ enshrined in the soul.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work
+whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We have such a nice little quiet, shady corner in the
+vineyard, down among the tender grapes, with such
+easy little weedings and waterings to attend to. And
+then the Master comes and draws us out into the thick
+of the work, and puts us in a part of the field where we
+never should have thought of going, and puts larger
+tools into our hands, that we may do more at a stroke.
+And we know we are not sufficient for these things, and
+the very tools seem too heavy for us, and the glare too
+dazzling and the vines too tall. Ah! but would we
+dally, go back? He would not be in the shady corner
+with us now; for when He put us forth He went before
+us, and it is only by <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'closee'">closer</ins> following that we can abide
+with Him.&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Small things. Zech. iv. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is the little words you speak, the little thoughts
+you think, the little things you do or leave undone, the
+little moments you waste or use wisely, the little temptations
+which you yield to or overcome&mdash;the little things
+of every day that are making or marring your future
+life.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be perfect, be of good comfort. 2 Cor. xiii. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>A glance at the words is enough to make us feel how
+contradictory they are. <i>Be perfect</i>&mdash;that is a word that
+strikes us with despair; at once we feel how far away
+we are from our own poor ideal, and alas! how much
+further from God's ideal concerning us. <i>Be of good
+comfort</i>&mdash;ah, that is very different! That seems to say,
+"Do not fret; do not fear. If you are not what you
+would be, you must be thankful for what you are."</p>
+
+<p>Now the question is this&mdash;How can these two be reconciled?</p>
+
+<p>It is only the religion of Jesus Christ that reconciles
+them. He stands in our midst, and with the right hand
+of His righteousness He pointeth us upward, and saith,
+"Be perfect." There is no resting-place short of that.
+Yet with the left hand of His love He doth encompass
+us, as He saith, "Soul, be of good comfort; for that is
+what I came to do for thee."&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
+perfect. Matt. v. 48.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit, let us aim at perfection.
+Let every day see some sin crucified, some
+battle fought, some good done, some victory won; let
+every fall be followed by a rise, and every step gained
+become, not a resting-place, but a new starting-point for
+further and higher progress.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Sleep on now, and take your rest. Mark xiv. 41.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Never did that sacred opportunity to watch with
+Christ return to His disciples. Lost then, it was lost
+forever. And now when Jesus is still beholding the
+travail of His soul in the redemption of the world, if
+you fail to be with Him watching for souls as they that
+must give account, remember that the opportunity will<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span>
+never return. "Watch, therefore," says your Lord,
+"lest coming suddenly, He may find you sleeping."&mdash;<i>A.
+J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />June 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let us not sleep, as do others. 1 Thess. v. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness.
+Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians
+to converse together concerning the ways of the
+Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed
+towards the Celestial City, said to themselves:</p>
+
+<p>"To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into
+good discourse."</p>
+
+<p>Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone are
+very liable to grow drowsy. Hold Christian company,
+and you will be kept wakeful by it, and refreshed and
+encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to
+heaven.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/jul.png" width="600" height="119" alt="JULY" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not. Rev. i. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>One of Wellington's officers, when commanded to go
+on some perilous duty, lingered a moment as if afraid,
+and then said:</p>
+
+<p>"Let me have one clasp of your all-conquering hand
+before I go; and then I can do it."</p>
+
+<p>Seek the clasp of Christ's hand before every bit of
+work, every hard task, every battle, every good deed.
+Bend your head in the dewy freshness of every morning,
+ere you go forth to meet the day's duties and perils,
+and wait for the benediction of Christ, as He lays
+His hands upon you. They are hands of blessing.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+Their touch will inspire you for courage and strength
+and all beautiful and noble living.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining
+to the kingdom of God. Acts i. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This lingering for forty days is the crowning proof of
+Christ's tender regard for His little flock. He who had
+laid down His life for them is loath to leave them.
+Though they had forsaken Him, and doubted Him, they
+had not wearied, much less had they worn out, His love.
+He stays to look again, and yet again, and yet again,
+upon them, as if turning back and lingering to bless
+them. It is all of a piece with His life of love. Everywhere
+He meets them without a touch of upbraiding,
+without recalling a single memory of all His bitter suffering,
+revealing Himself to the disciples with a tenderness
+and blessedness indescribably beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene's
+broken heart? He must linger till poor Peter can venture
+near to have his forgiveness assured. He must
+stay to strengthen Thomas' faith. He must tarry with
+them till He has made them feel that He is just the same
+friendly, brotherly Jesus that He has ever been, caring
+for them in their work, watching them with a yearning
+pity, stooping to kindle a fire for their warmth, and to
+cook the fish for their meal, and then to bid them come
+and dine.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jesus, .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the
+well.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. (For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy
+meat.) .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on
+Him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that
+ever I did. John iv. 6, 8, 39.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The bits of wayside work are very sweet. Perhaps
+the odd bits, when all is done, will really come to more
+than the seemingly greater pieces!.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. It is nice to
+know that the King's servants are always really on duty,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+even while some can only stand and wait.&mdash;<i>Frances
+Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. let not
+your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John xiv. 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Dark hours come to us all; and if we have no clew to
+a peace that can pass unbroken through their murky
+gloom, we shall be in a state of continual dread. Any
+stone flung by a chance passer-by may break the crystal
+clearness of the Lake of Peace and send disturbing
+ripples across it, unless we have learnt to trust in the
+perpetual presence of Him who can make and keep a
+"great calm" within the soul. Only let nothing come
+to you which you shall not instantly hand over to Him&mdash;all
+petty worries, all crushing difficulties, all inability
+to believe.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi. Gen. xxv. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Isaac dwelt there, and made the well of the living and
+all-seeing God his constant source of supply. The
+usual tenor of a man's life, the <i>dwelling</i> of his soul, is
+the true test of his state. Let us learn to live in the
+presence of the living God. Let us pray the Holy
+Spirit that this day, and every other day, we may feel,
+"Thou God seest me." May the Lord Jehovah be as a
+well to us, delightful, comforting, unfailing, springing
+up unto eternal life. The bottle of the creature cracks
+and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails.
+Happy is he who dwells at the well, and so has abundant
+and constant supplies near at hand! Glorious
+Lord, constrain us that we may never leave Thee, but
+dwell by the well of the living God!&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Judas Iscariot .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. was a thief, and had the bag, and bore
+what was put therein. John xii. 4, 6.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Ah, but if we should go thoroughly into this matter,
+should we not probably find that many of us are
+guilty, in some modified and yet sufficiently alarming
+sense, of treachery to the poor? Are we not, some of us,
+sent to them with benefactions which never reach them,
+and are only unconscious of guilt because so long accustomed
+to look upon the goods as bestowed on us,
+whereas the light of God's word would plainly reveal
+upon those goods the names of the poor and needy?&mdash;<i>George
+Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let every man take heed how he buildeth. 1 Cor. iii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our business is not to build quickly, but to build
+upon a right foundation, and in a right spirit. Life is
+more than a mere competition as between man and man;
+it is not who can be done first, but who can work best;
+it is not who can rise highest in the shortest time, but
+who is working most patiently and lovingly in accordance
+with the designs of God.&mdash;<i>Joseph Parker.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii. 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>No day without its duty; no duty without strength to
+perform it.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. Gen. xxviii. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it
+not." My soul, this is also thine experience! How
+often hast thou said in thy sorrow, "Verily thou art a
+God that hidest Thyself!" How often hast thou slept
+for very heaviness of heart, and desired not to wake
+again! And when thou didst wake again, lo, the darkness
+was all a dream! Thy vision of yesterday was a delusion.
+God had been with thee all the night with that
+radiance which has no need of the sun.</p>
+
+<p>O my soul, it is not only after the future thou must<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>
+aspire; thou must aspire to see the glory of thy past.
+Thou must find the glory of that way by which thy God
+has led thee, and be able even of thy sorrow to say,
+"This was the gate of heaven!"&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John iv. 34.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in
+an unsurrendered will.&mdash;<i>J. Hudson Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. 2 Pet. i. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to
+choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your
+faults, still less of others' faults; in every person who
+comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor
+that; rejoice in it, and, as you can, try to imitate it; and
+your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their
+time comes.&mdash;<i>John Ruskin.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my
+garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song of Sol. iv. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Sometimes God sends severe blasts of trial upon His
+children to develop their graces. Just as torches burn
+most brightly when swung violently to and fro; just as
+the juniper plant smells sweetest when flung into the
+flames; so the richest qualities of a Christian often
+come out under the north wind of suffering and adversity.
+Bruised hearts often emit the fragrance that
+God loveth to smell. Almost every true believer's experience
+contains the record of trials which were sent
+for the purpose of shaking the spice tree.&mdash;<i>Theodore
+Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden,
+that the spices thereof may flow out. Song of Sol. iv. 16.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There are two winds mentioned in this beautiful
+prayer. God may send either or both, as seemeth Him
+good. He may send the north wind of conviction, to
+bring us to repentance, or He may send the south wind
+of love, to melt us into gratitude and holy joy. If we
+often require the sharp blasts of trial to develop our
+graces, do we not also need the warm south breezes of
+His mercy? Do we not need the new sense of Christ's
+presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost?
+Do we not need to be melted, yes, to be overpowered by
+the love of Jesus?&mdash;<i>Theodore Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Behold the man! John xix. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"Behold the man!" was Pilate's jeer. That is what
+all the ages have been doing since, and the vision has
+grown more and more glorious. As they have looked,
+the crown of thorns has become a crown of golden
+radiance, and the cast-off robe has glistened like the
+garments He wore on the night of the transfiguration.
+Martyrs have smiled in the flames at that vision.
+Sinners have turned at it to a new life. Little children
+have seen it, and have had awakened by it dim recollections
+of their heaven-home. Toward it the souls of
+men yearn ever.&mdash;<i>Robert E. Speer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He (John) saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples
+heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. John i. 36, 37.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>To be a Christian means to know the presence of a
+true personal Christ among us, and to follow.&mdash;<i>Phillips
+Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye shall not eat of it. Gen. iii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge
+before the tree of life. Life must ever be first. Knowing
+and not being, hearing and not doing, admiring and
+not possessing, all are light without life.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
+wanting nothing. James i. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Are you where God would have you be? If not,
+come out, and at once, for you certainly ought not to be
+there. If you are, then be afraid to complain of circumstances
+which God has ordained on purpose to work out
+in you the very image and likeness of His Son.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Sow beside all waters. Isa. xxxii. 20.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Never mind whereabouts your work is. Never mind
+whether it be visible or not. Never mind whether your
+name is associated with it. You may never see the issues
+of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you
+cannot see results here in the hot working day, the cool
+evening hours are drawing near, when you may rest from
+your labors and then they will follow you. So do your
+duty, and trust God to give the seed you sow "a body as
+it hath pleased Him,"&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Psa. cxix. 117.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do not spoil the chime of this morning's bells by
+ringing one half a peal! Do not say, "Hold thou me
+up," and stop there, or add, "But all the same I shall
+stumble and fall!" Finish the peal with God's own
+music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your
+mouth: "Hold thou me up, <i>and I shall be safe!</i>"&mdash;<i>Frances
+Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy. Matt. viii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We, in this age of the church, are in the position of
+that sick servant at Capernaum. To the eye of sense
+we are separated from the Savior. We see Him not&mdash;we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+can touch Him not&mdash;the hand cannot steal amid the
+crowd to catch His garment hem&mdash;we cannot hear His
+loved footsteps as of old on our threshold; but faith
+penetrates the invisible; the messenger&mdash;prayer&mdash;meets
+Him in the streets of the New Jerusalem; and faith and
+prayer together, the twin delegates from His church
+below, He has never yet sent empty away.&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is
+God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
+Phil. ii. 12, 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What a staggering weight of thought is excited by
+these words! Stay, my soul, and wonder that the
+Eternal God should stoop to work within thy narrow
+limits. Is it not a marvel indeed, that He, whom the
+heavens cannot contain, and in whose sight they are not
+clean, should trouble Himself to work on such material,
+so unpromising, and amidst circumstances so uncongenial?</p>
+
+<p>How careful should we be to make Him welcome, and
+to throw no hindrance in His way! How eager to
+garner up all the least movements of His gracious
+operation, as the machinist conserves the force of his
+engine; and as the goldsmith, with miserly care, collects
+every flake of gold leaf! Surely we shall be sensible of
+the <i>fear</i> of holy reverence and the <i>trembling</i> of eager
+anxiety; as we "work out," into daily act and life, all
+that God our Father is "working in."&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Sinners of whom I am chief.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Now unto the King,
+eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for
+ever and ever. Amen. 1 Tim. i. 15, 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Only those who have struck the deepest note of
+penitence can reach the highest note of praise.&mdash;<i>A. J.
+Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Blessed is the man .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. that keepeth the Sabbath. Isa. lvi. 2.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into
+which we deposit one day in seven to be repaid in the
+autumn of life with compound interest.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The world wants men who are saved from secret
+faults. The world can put on an outside goodness and
+go very far in uprightness and morality, and it expects
+that a Christian shall go beyond it, and be free from
+secret faults. A little crack will spoil the ring of the
+coin.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. The world expects, and rightly, that the
+Christian should be more gentle, and patient, and generous,
+than he who does not profess to be a disciple of
+the Lord Jesus. For the sake of those who take their
+notion of religion from our lives, we need to put up this
+prayer earnestly, "Cleanse thou me from secret faults."&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Do thou that which is good. 2 Kings x. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Keep as few good intentions hovering about as possible.
+They are like ghosts haunting a dwelling. The
+way to lay them is to find bodies for them. When they
+are embodied in substantial deeds they are no longer
+dangerous.&mdash;<i>William Arnot.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
+Christ. 2 Pet. iii. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Grace has its dawn as well as day; grace has its green
+blade, and afterwards its ripe corn in the ear; grace has
+its babes and its men in Christ. With God's work
+there, as with all His works, "in all places of His dominion,"
+progress is both the prelude and the path to
+perfection. Therefore we are exhorted to grow in
+grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior
+Jesus Christ, to go on to perfection, saying with Paul,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>
+"I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one
+thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,
+and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
+I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling
+of God in Christ Jesus."&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived, and by it slew
+me. Rom. vii. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin.
+Take heed lest thou fall by little and little. Sin, a
+<i>little</i> thing? Is it not a poison? Who knows its deadliness?
+Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes
+spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build
+a rock which wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell
+lofty oaks? Will not continual droppings wear away
+stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the Redeemer's
+head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made <i>Him</i>
+suffer anguish, bitterness and woe. Could you weigh
+the least sin in the scales of eternity, you would fly
+from it as from a serpent, and abhor <i>the least appearance
+of evil</i>. Look upon all sin as that which crucified
+the Savior, and you will see it to be "exceeding
+sinful."&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Your heavenly Father knoweth. Matt. vi. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Master judges by the result, but our Father
+judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean
+fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs
+them where others only measure. Your Father! Think
+how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings
+of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may
+be to others. All this lies in this blessed relationship,
+and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your
+own.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Col. iii. 3.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It is neither talent, nor power, nor gifts that do the
+work of God, but it is that which lies within the power
+of the humblest; it is the simple, earnest life hid with
+Christ in God.&mdash;<i>F. W. Robertson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine. Jesus
+saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is
+not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He
+saith unto you, do it. John ii. 3, 4, 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in
+putting the matter into the Lord's hand, and leaving it
+there. He knows our sorrows, and, if He sees it is good
+for us that the water should be turned into wine, He
+will do it. It is not for us to dictate: He sees what is
+best for us. When we ask for prosperity, perhaps the
+thing which we should have is trial. When we want to
+be relieved of a "thorn in the flesh," He knows what we
+should have is an apprehension of the fact that His
+grace is sufficient for us. So we are put into His
+school, and have to learn the lessons He has to teach
+us.&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />July 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor
+x. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Angels fell in heaven, Adam in paradise, Peter in
+Christ's presence.&mdash;<i>Theophilus Polwheile.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/aug.png" width="600" height="98" alt="AUGUST" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The greatest and the best talent that God gives to
+any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.
+And the best usury that any man or woman brings<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
+back to God when He comes to reckon with them at the
+end of this world is a life of prayer. And those servants
+best put their Lord's money to the exchangers who
+rise early and sit late, as long as they are in this
+world, ever finding out, and ever following after better
+and better methods of prayer, and ever forming more
+secret, more steadfast, and more spiritually fruitful
+habits of prayer, till they literally pray without ceasing,
+and till they continually strike out into new enterprises
+in prayer, and new achievements, and new
+enrichments.&mdash;<i>Alex. Whyte.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He entered into one of the ships .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. sat down.
+Luke v. iii.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its
+right place. The cargo is in the hold, <i>not in the heart</i>.
+Cares and gains, fears and losses, yesterday's failure and
+today's success do not thrust themselves in between us
+and His presence. The heart cleaves to <i>Him</i>. "Goodness
+and mercy shall <i>follow</i> me," sang the psalmist.
+Alas, when the goodness and mercy come before us, and
+our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is the
+blessed order&mdash;the Lord ever first, I following Him,
+His goodness and mercy following me.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy
+Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. Eph. v. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We do not realize the importance of the unconscious
+part of our life ministry. It goes on continually. In
+every greeting we give to another on the street, in
+every moment's conversation, in every letter we write,
+in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence
+that goes from us that often reaches further, and
+leaves a deep impression than the things themselves
+that we are doing at the time. It is not so much what
+we <i>do</i> in this world as what we <i>are</i>, that tells in spiritual
+results and impressions.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. ii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Let us ask Him to work in us to <i>will</i> those good
+works, so that our <i>will</i>, without being impaired in its
+free operation, may be permeated and moulded by His
+will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without displacing
+it. And let us also expect that He will infuse
+into us sufficient strength that we may be able to <i>do</i>
+His will unto all pleasing. Thus, day by day, our life
+will be a manifestation of those holy volitions and
+lovely deeds which shall attest the indwelling and inworking
+of God. And men shall see our good works,
+and glorify our Father which is in heaven.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Go in this thy might .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. have not I sent thee? Judges vi. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God never leaves His child to fail when in the path
+of obedience.&mdash;<i>Theodore Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Col.
+iii. 2.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Eccles.
+ix. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If we are to live separate from the world, how, since
+men only do well what they do with a will, are we, with
+affections fixed on things above, to perform aright the
+secular, ordinary duties of life? If our hearts are engrossed
+with heavenly things, how are we to obey this
+other, and equally divine, commandment, "Whatsoever
+thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might"?</p>
+
+<p>The two are perfectly consistent. Man standing between
+the celestial and terrestrial worlds is related to
+both; and resembling neither a flower, which, springing
+from the dust and returning to it, belongs altogether to
+the earth, nor a star which, shining far remote from its
+lower sphere, belongs altogether to the heavens, our
+hearts may be fitly likened to the rainbow that, rising<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>
+into heaven but resting on earth, is connected both with
+the clods of the valley and the clouds of the sky.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset
+us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking
+unto Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Think, as you sit here, of anything that you are doing
+that is wrong, of any habit of your life, of your self-indulgence,
+or of that great, pervasive habit of your life
+which makes you a creature of the present instead of
+the eternities, a creature of the material earth instead of
+the glorious skies. Ask yourself of any habit that belongs
+to your own personal life, and bring it face to face
+with Jesus Christ.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
+Acts iv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If I think of the world, I get the impress of the
+world; if I think of my trials and sorrows, I get the impress
+of my trials and sorrows; if I think of my failures,
+I get the impress of my failures; if I think of Christ, I
+get the impress of Christ.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. John
+xiii. 13. (R. V. margin).</i></p></div>
+
+<p>How wonderful a Teacher we have! Sometimes we
+seek Him in the house, but He is not there. We go
+forth seeking Him and find Him perhaps in the wilderness
+or on a mountain praying, or leading some poor
+blind man by the hand, or eating with publicans or sinners,
+or asleep in a storm or conversing with a Samaritan
+woman, or surrounded by wrathful men, or bearing
+a cross. It is not merely His words that instruct. His
+place, His occupation, His companions, His environment,
+His garment, His silence, His submission&mdash;all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+teem with instruction. And they that learn of Him are
+made like unto Him.&mdash;<i>George Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John iv. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come
+forth without His Father's permission, authority, consent,
+and assistance. He was sent of the Father that
+He might be the Savior of men.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Didst thou
+ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah,
+when God the Father equipped His Son for the great
+enterprise of mercy? If not, be this thy day's meditation.
+The <i>Father</i> sent Him! Contemplate that subject.
+Think how Jesus works what the <i>Father</i> wills. In the
+wounds of the dying Savior see the love of the great I
+AM. Let every thought of Jesus be also connected
+with the eternal, ever-blessed God.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They that wait upon the Lord shall change their strength. Isa. xl.
+31. (R. V.)</i></p></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Lord, what a change within us one short hour<br />
+Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!<br />
+What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!<br />
+What parched grounds refresh as with a shower!<br />
+We kneel&mdash;and all around us seems to lower.<br />
+We rise&mdash;and all the distant and the near<br />
+Stand forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.<br />
+We kneel&mdash;how weak: we rise&mdash;how full of power.<br />
+<br />
+Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong<br />
+Or others&mdash;that we are not always strong;<br />
+That we are ever overborne with care;<br />
+That we should ever weak or heartless be,<br />
+Anxious or troubled, while with <i>us</i> is prayer,<br />
+And joy and strength and courage are with <i>Thee?</i><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 15.5em;">&mdash;<i>Archbishop Trench.</i></span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Deut.
+xviii. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What a stepping-stone! We give thanks, often with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>
+a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies <i>positive;</i>
+but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies
+<i>negative!</i> We cannot even imagine all that God
+has suffered us <i>not</i> to do, <i>not</i> to be.&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley
+Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with
+compassion toward them, and He healed their sick.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. And when
+He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart
+to pray: and when the evening was come He was there alone. Matt.
+xiv. 14, 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of
+human character? Are our <i>public</i> duties, the cares,
+and business, and engrossments of the world, finely tempered
+and hallowed by a <i>secret</i> walk with God? If the
+world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares,
+would it trace us to our family altars and our closet
+devotions?</p>
+
+<p>Action and meditation are the two great components
+of Christian life, and the perfection of the religious
+character is to find the two in unison and harmony.&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps. 1 Pet. ii.
+21. (R. V.)</i></p></div>
+
+<p>I have long since ceased to pray, "Lord Jesus, have
+compassion on a lost world!" I remember the day and
+the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord rebuking me
+for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, "I
+have had compassion upon a lost world, and now it is
+for you to have compassion."&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex. xx. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If you find yourself beginning to love any pleasure
+better than your prayers, any book better than your
+Bible, any house better than God's, any table better<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>
+than the Lord's, any person better than your Savior,
+any one better than your soul, a present indulgence
+better than the hope of heaven&mdash;take alarm!&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1 Cor. xi. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>When in the Mexican war the troops were wavering,
+a general rose in his stirrups and dashed into the
+enemy's line, shouting, "Men, follow!" They, seeing
+his courage and disposition, dashed on after him, and
+gained the victory.</p>
+
+<p>What men want to rally them for God is an example
+to lead them. All your commands to others to advance
+amount to nothing so long as you stay behind. To effect
+them aright, you need to start for heaven yourself,
+looking back only to give the stirring cry of "Men, follow!"&mdash;<i>T.
+DeWitt Talmage.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a
+piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.
+He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision
+of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to
+carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood, which was
+destined for the fire. He obeyed, and produced a masterpiece
+from a log of common fire-wood.</p>
+
+<p>Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting
+to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really
+lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.&mdash;<i>Orison
+Swett Marden.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
+weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God's way of answering His people's prayers is not
+by removing the pressure, but by increasing their
+strength to bear it. The pressure is often the fence between<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>
+the narrow way of life and the broad road to ruin;
+and if our Heavenly Father were to remove it, it might
+be at the sacrifice of heaven. Oh, if God had removed
+that thorny fence in answer, often to earnest prayers,
+how many of us would now be castaways! How the
+song of many a saint now in glory would be hushed!
+How many a harp would be unstrung! How many a
+place in the mansions of the redeemed would be unfilled!
+If God answered all the prayers we put up to heaven, we
+should need no other scourge. Blessed it is that we
+have One who is too loving to grant what we too often
+so rashly ask.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
+itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in
+me. John xv. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>From moment to moment, and from hour to hour, the
+inner nature of man is to be continuously sustained with
+the life of God. Only as I am constantly receiving His
+fulness into my emptiness am I really living in the
+true, full, deep sense of the word, that life of eternity,
+which is my privilege now, and will be my glory hereafter.&mdash;<i>W.
+Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>By faith Noah .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. prepared an ark to the saving of his
+house. Heb. xi. 7.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What a humble, what a modest sphere for the exercise
+of faith! One would have said that the purpose
+was quite disproportionate to the work. The ark was a
+great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for? To
+save his own family. Is so narrow a sphere worthy to
+be the object of faith? Is so commonplace a scene as
+the life of the family circle fit to be a temple for the service
+of God?&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. My soul, when thou hast finished
+thy prayers and ended thy meditations, do not say that
+thou hast left the house of God. God's house shall to
+thee be everywhere, and thine own house shall be a part<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+of it. Thou shalt feel that all the duties of this place
+are consecrated; that it is none other than the house of
+God and one of the gates to heaven. Thou shalt feel
+that every one of its duties is an act of high communion.
+Therefore be it thine to make thy house <i>His</i> house. Be
+it thine to consecrate each word and look and deed in
+the social life of home. Be it thine to build thine ark
+of refuge for the wants of common day; verily, thy labor
+of love shall be called an act of faith.&mdash;<i>George
+Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works
+which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Eph.
+ii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>No man is born into the world whose work is not born
+with him. There is always work, and tools to work
+withal, for those who will.&mdash;<i>J. B. Lowell.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. began to wash the disciples' feet. John xiii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We forget that Jesus Christ is the same to-day, when
+He is sitting on the throne, as He was yesterday, when
+He trod the pathway of our world. And in this forgetfulness
+how much we miss! What He was, that He is.
+What He said, that He says. The Gospels are simply
+specimens of the life that He is ever living; they are
+leaves torn out of the diary of His unchangeable Being.
+To-day He is engaged in washing the feet of His disciples,
+soiled with their wilderness journeyings. Yes,
+that charming incident is having its fulfilment in thee,
+my friend, if only thou dost not refuse the lowly loving
+offices of Him whom we call Master and Lord, but who
+still girds Himself and comes forth to serve. And we
+must have this incessant cleansing if we would keep
+right. It is not enough to look back to a certain hour
+when we first knelt at the feet of the Son of God for
+pardon; and heard Him say, "Thy sins, which are many,
+are all forgiven." We need daily, hourly cleansing&mdash;from
+daily, hourly sin.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am the Lord, I change not. Mal. iii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our hope is not hung upon such untwisted thread as
+"I imagine so," or "it is likely"; but the cable, the
+strong rope of our fastened anchor, is the oath and
+promise of Him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is
+fastened with God's own hand and Christ's own strength
+to the strong stake of God's unchanging nature.&mdash;<i>William
+Rutherford.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be
+showers of blessing. Ezek. xxxiv. 26.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>What is thy <i>season</i> this morning? Is it the season
+of drought? Then that is the season for showers. Is it
+a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then
+that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall
+thy strength be." "I will give thee <i>showers</i> of blessing."
+The word is in the plural. All kinds of blessings
+God will send. All God's blessings go together,
+like links in a golden chain. If He gives converting
+grace, He will also give comforting grace. He will
+send "showers of blessings." Look up to-day, O
+parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a
+heavenly watering.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Nevertheless, at thy word. Luke v. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Oh, what a blessed formula for us! This path of
+mine is dark, mysterious, perplexing; <i>nevertheless, at
+Thy word</i> I will go forward. This trial of mine is cutting,
+sore for flesh and blood to bear. It is hard to
+breathe through a broken heart, Thy will be done. But,
+<i>nevertheless, at Thy word</i> I will say, Even so, Father!
+This besetting habit, or infirmity, or sin of mine, is difficult
+to crucify. It has become part of myself&mdash;a second
+nature; to be severed from it would be like the cutting<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
+off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right eye;
+<i>nevertheless, at Thy word</i> I will lay aside every weight;
+this idol I will utterly abolish. This righteousness of
+mine it is hard to ignore; all these virtues, and amiabilities,
+and natural graces, it is hard to believe that
+they dare not in any way be mixed up in the matter of
+my salvation; and that I am to receive all from first to
+last as the gift of God, through Jesus Christ my Lord.
+<i>Nevertheless, at Thy word</i> I will count all but loss for
+the excellency of His knowledge.&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim. ii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The photographer must have a negative, as he calls it,
+in order to furnish you with a picture. Now, the earthly
+cross is the negative from which the heavenly crown is to
+be made; the suffering and sorrow of the present time
+determining the glory, honor and immortality of the life
+to come.&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 1 Pet. i. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Word abideth. The Jew hated it&mdash;but it lived
+on, while the veil was torn away from the shrine which
+the Shekinah had forsaken, and while Jerusalem itself
+was destroyed. The Greek derided it&mdash;but it has seen
+his philosophy effete and his Acropolis in ruins. The
+Romans threw it into the flames&mdash;but it rose from its
+ashes, and swooped down upon the falling eagle. The
+reasoner cast it into the furnace, which his own negligence
+had heated "seven times hotter than its wont"&mdash;but
+it came out without the smell of fire. The formalist
+fastened serpents around it to poison it&mdash;but it shook
+them off and felt no harm. The infidel cast it overboard
+in a tempest of sophistry and sarcasm&mdash;but it
+rode gallantly upon the crest of the proud waters. And
+it is living still&mdash;yet heard in the loudest swelling of
+the storm&mdash;it has been speaking all the while&mdash;it is
+speaking now!&mdash;<i>Punshon.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. Col. iii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Years ago one of our fleets was terribly shattered by
+a violent gale&mdash;but it was found that some of the ships
+were unaffected by its violence. They were in what
+mariners call "the eye of the storm." While all around
+was desolation, they were safe. So it is with him who
+has the peace of God in his heart.&mdash;<i>Pilkington.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye serve the Lord Christ. Col. iii. 24.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our business as Christians is to serve the Lord in
+every business of life.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 1 John
+ii. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If you will go to the banks of a little stream, and
+watch the flies that come to bathe in it, you will notice
+that, while they plunge their <i>bodies</i> into the water,
+they keep their <i>wings</i> high out of the water; and, after
+swimming about a little while, they fly away with their
+wings unwet through the sunny air. Now, that is the
+lesson for us. Here we are immersed in the cares and
+business of the world; but let us keep the wings of our
+soul, our faith and our love, out of the world, that, with
+these unclogged, we may be ready to take our flight to
+heaven.&mdash;<i>J. Inglis.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />August 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I would have you without carefulness. 1 Cor. vii. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do not look forward to the changes and chances of
+this life in fear. Rather look to them with full hope
+that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you
+out of them. He has kept you hitherto&mdash;do you but
+hold fast to His dear hand, and He will lead you safely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+through all things; and when you cannot stand, He will
+bear you in His arms. Do not look forward to what
+may happen to-morrow. The same everlasting Father
+who cares for you to-day will take care of you to-morrow,
+and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering,
+or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.
+Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts
+and imaginations.&mdash;<i>Francis de Sales.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/sep.png" width="600" height="103" alt="September" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the
+house of Israel, to do it for them. Ezek. xxxvi. 37.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred
+history and you will find that scarcely ever did a great
+mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
+Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes before
+the blessing <i>as the blessing's shadow</i>. When the sunlight
+of God's mercies rises upon our necessities it casts
+the shadow of prayer far down upon the plain. Or, to
+use another illustration, when God piles up a hill of
+mercies He Himself shines behind them, and He casts
+on our spirits the shadow of prayer so that we may rest
+certain, if we are much in prayer, our pleadings are the
+shadows of mercy. Prayer is thus connected with the
+blessing to show us the value of it.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if
+we faint not. Gal. vi. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The hours of this present life are the ages in embryo
+of the life to come.&mdash;<i>A. J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>My presence shall go with thee. Ex. xxxiii. 14.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We should never leave our prayer closets in the
+morning without having concentrated our thoughts
+deeply and intensely on the fact of the actual presence
+of God there with us, encompassing us, and filling the
+room as literally as it fills heaven itself. It may not
+lead to any distinct results at first, but, as we make repeated
+efforts to realize the presence of God, it will become
+increasingly real to us. And, as the habit grows
+upon us, when alone in a room, or when treading the
+sward of some natural woodland temple, or when pacing
+the stony street&mdash;in the silence of night, or amid the
+teeming crowds of daylight&mdash;we shall often find ourselves
+whispering the words, "Thou art near; thou art
+here, O Lord."&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness. Dan. ix. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>As a spring lock closes itself, but cannot be unlocked
+without a key, so we ourselves may run into sin, but
+cannot return without the key of God's grace.&mdash;<i>Cawdray.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>It is high time to awake out of sleep. Rom. xiii. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>I have heard of a painter who loved to work by the
+morning light. He said that the colors were better
+understood by the light of the early day, and so he was
+wont to be in his studio waiting for the rising of the
+sun. Then every moment it grew lighter, and he
+found he could accomplish things which he could not
+reach if he waited till the day had advanced.</p>
+
+<p>Is there not work waiting for us&mdash;work that no one
+else can do&mdash;work, too, that the Master has promised to
+help us perform? Shall He come and find that we
+still sleep? Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when
+He appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited,
+looking and longing for the first gleam of day? Surely
+those of us who thus wait on the Lord shall renew our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>
+strength, and, eagle-like, rise to greet the Sun.&mdash;<i>Thomas
+Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.
+Acts xx. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Surely He may do what He will with His own. The
+price He has paid to make them His own is a sufficient
+guarantee that He will never make light of anything in
+which their welfare is at all concerned. We are
+precious to Him by the virtue of the blood which He
+has shed for us, and for Him to be found at any time
+wanting in solicitude for our happiness would be for Him
+to treat that blood of His as the sinners of this world
+treat it. The persuasion of Christ's love must be
+graven in our hearts so deeply that no semblance of indifference
+on His part will ever make the slightest impression
+upon us. This is the victory which overcometh
+the world.&mdash;<i>George Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that
+ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Rom.
+xv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In spiritual as in earthly things there is great strength
+in hope, and, therefore, God's people are carefully to
+cultivate that grace. A well-grounded hope that, having
+been made new creatures in Jesus Christ, we are
+His; that with our names, though unknown to fame,
+written in the Book of Life, we have grace in possession
+and heaven in prospect; that after a few more brief
+years, pure as the angels that sing before the throne, we
+shall be brought with gladness into the palace of the
+King, to be like Christ and with Christ, seeing Him eye
+to eye and face to face&mdash;such hopes are powerful springs
+of action.&mdash;<i>Guthrie.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it him, even length of days
+or ever and ever. Psa. xxi. 4.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When poor men make requests of us we usually
+answer them as the echo does the voice&mdash;the answer
+cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom find among
+men Jael's courtesy, giving milk to those that ask water,
+except it be as this was, an entangling benefit, the
+better to introduce a mischief. There are not many
+Naamans among us, that, when you beg of them one
+talent, will force you to take two; but God's answer to
+our prayers is like a multiplying glass, which renders
+the request much greater in the answer than it was in
+the prayer.&mdash;<i>Bishop Reynolds.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>This beginning of miracles did Jesus. John ii. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It was out of the common thing that the precious
+thing was brought; and it is out of the common things
+of daily life, presented obediently to Jesus and laid at
+His feet, that He brings His own glorious gifts, so that
+our whole lives become one great sacrament.&mdash;<i>W. Hay
+Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In the daytime .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. He led them with a cloud, and all the
+night with a light of fire. Psa. lxxviii. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>My day is my prosperity; it is the time when the sun
+of fortune is bright above me, and, therefore, it is the
+time when I need a shade. If my sunshine were not
+chequered I would forget Thee, O my God.</p>
+
+<p>But I have nights to meet as well as days. The night
+is my adversity; it is the time when the sun of fortune
+has gone down behind the hills, and I am left alone, and
+then it is, O my Father, that I need the light of Thy fire!
+My light of fire for the night is the vision of Calvary&mdash;the
+vision of Thy love in the Cross. I need the light of
+Thy fire "<i>all</i> the night."&mdash;<i>George Matheson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Now are we the sons of God: and it doth not yet appear what we
+shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like
+Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 John iii. 2.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Now are we the sons of God." That is the pier
+upon one side of the gulf. "It doth not yet appear
+what we shall be, but when He shall appear we shall be
+like Him." That is the pier on the other. How are
+the two to be connected? There is only one way by
+which the present sonship will blossom and fruit into
+the future perfect likeness, and that is, if we throw
+across the gulf, by God's help day by day, the bridge of
+growing likeness to Himself, and purity therefrom.&mdash;<i>Alex.
+McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. xx. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem
+as that which Jesus here proposes to His disciples. He
+goes up voluntarily. The act was not enforced by any
+external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time
+have been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was
+a going up to a triumph to be reached through defeat, a
+coronation to be attained through ignominy and humiliation.</p>
+
+<p>O believer, in your walk through the world to-day, be
+strengthened, be comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle
+of the Captain of your salvation thus going up to Jerusalem!
+And remember, in all those apparently <i>downward</i>
+passages of life, where sorrow, and it may be death, lie
+before you, that all such descents, made or endured in
+the Spirit of Jesus, are really <i>upgoing</i> steps, leading
+you to the mount of God and the resurrection glory.&mdash;<i>J.
+B. Stratton.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and
+hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chron. iv. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell "with the
+King for His work." We may be in a very unlikely or
+unfavorable place for this; it may be in a little country
+life, with little enough to be seen of the "goings" of
+the King around us; it may be among hedges of all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>
+sorts, hindrances in all directions; it may be, furthermore,
+with our hands full of all manner of pottery for
+our daily task. No matter! The King who placed us
+"there" will come and dwell there with us; the hedges
+are all right, or He would soon do away with them;
+and it does not follow that what seems to hinder our
+way may not be for its very protection; and as for the
+pottery, why, this is just exactly what He has seen fit to
+put into our hands, and therefore it is, for the present,
+"His work."&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go;
+<i>I will guide thee with mine eye. Psa. xxxii. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>When God does the directing, our life is useful and
+full of promise, whatever it is doing; and discipline has
+its perfecting work.&mdash;<i>H. E. Cobb.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and
+to give His life a ransom for many. Matt. xx. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this
+great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess
+the whole life. We are to live, like God, to bless others.
+This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This is
+what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the
+claim of His great love upon us.</p>
+
+<p>Do not sigh a poor assent to the truth of it, and then
+pass by neglectfully on the other side. Do not think
+about it and pray about it without even a passing hope
+that the prayer will be answered. Do not gather yourself
+up in great resolutions to be good and useful.
+Kneel in sight of the Crucified. In the cross of Christ
+spell out His great purpose and yearning love to men.
+Let the heart feel all the might of the appeal that
+comes to us from those torn hands and feet and bleeding
+brow, from all the dreadful shame and agony of our
+dear Lord. And, bought and bound by all this, surrender
+yourself to Him for His great purpose. Take Him as
+your strength for this life-work.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jesus .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. went about doing good. Acts x. 38.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The finest of all fine arts is the art of doing good; and
+yet it is the least cultivated.&mdash;<i>T. DeWitt Talmage.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar], Return to thy
+mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. Gen. xvi. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Submission</span> is a great Christian law, but we find it
+early in Genesis, early in the history of mankind, and
+angel-given.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then spake Solomon .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I have surely built thee an house to
+dwell in. 1 Kings viii. 12, 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the
+temple. If we would be soul-winners and build up
+the church, which is God's temple, let us note this; not
+by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ
+shall we draw men unto Him.&mdash;<i>J. Hudson Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa. xlviii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging
+the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor,
+against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction
+come&mdash;God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest
+stride in at my door&mdash;but God is in the house already,
+and He has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude,
+but I have a balsam ready&mdash;God has chosen me. Whatever
+befalls me in this vale of tears I know that He has
+"chosen" me. Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with thee.
+In all thy fiery trials His presence is both thy comfort
+and safety. He will never leave one whom He has
+chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with thee,"
+is His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in the
+"furnace of affliction."&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Base things of the world and things which are despised hath God
+chosen. 1 Cor. i. 28.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen
+pictures not painted with the brush, but mosaics, which
+are made up of small pieces of stone, glass, or other
+material. The artist takes these little pieces, and, polishing
+and arranging them, he forms them into the
+grand and beautiful picture. Each individual part of
+the picture may be a little worthless piece of glass
+or marble or shell; but, with each in its place, the whole
+constitutes the masterpiece of art.</p>
+
+<p>So I think it will be with humanity in the hands of
+the great Artist. God is picking up the little worthless
+pieces of stone and brass that might be trodden under
+foot unnoticed, and is making of them His great masterpiece.&mdash;<i>Bishop
+Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing.
+Psa. c. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God wants our life to be a song. He has written the
+music for us in His Word and in the duties that come
+to us in our places and relations in life. The things we
+ought to do are the notes set upon the staff. To make
+our life beautiful music we must be obedient and submissive.
+Any disobedience is the singing of a false
+note, and yields discord.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut
+thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret. Matt. vi. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This is faith's stronghold; here she weapons herself
+for the daily conflict. Silence in that closet of prayer
+bespeaks death throughout all the house. When that
+door is suffered to rust on its hinges, and that chamber
+is deserted, then the heart-house is soon retaken by
+Satan, and evil spirits come in and dwell there.&mdash;<i>Theodore
+Cuyler.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Pet. i. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The highway of holiness is along the commonest road
+of life&mdash;along your very way. In wind and rain, no
+matter how it beats&mdash;it is only going hand in hand with
+Him.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I
+do? Gen. xviii. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Abraham, in communion with God, knew long before
+Lot, in Sodom, of the destruction of that city. Oh for
+more communion!&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The life which I now live in the flesh. Gal. ii. 20.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>I expect to pass through this world but once&mdash;therefore,
+if there be any kindness I can show or any good
+thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it
+now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass
+this way again.&mdash;<i>Marcus Aurelius.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
+wisdom. Psa. xc. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a
+day repeated: whence it is that old Jacob numbers his
+life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point
+of holy arithmetic&mdash;to number not his years, but his
+days. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously
+prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.&mdash;<i>Bishop
+Hall.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. i. 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Religion is not the simple fire-escape that you build
+in anticipation of a possible danger, upon the outside<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span>
+of your dwelling, and leave there until danger comes.
+You go to it some morning when a fire breaks out in
+your house, and the poor old thing that you built up
+there, and thought that you could use some day, is so
+rusty and broken, and the weather has so beaten upon
+it and the sun so turned its hinges, that it will not
+work. That is the condition of a man who has built
+himself what seems a creed of faith, a trust in God in
+anticipation of the day when danger is to overtake him,
+and has said to himself, I am safe, for I will take refuge
+in it then. But religion is the house in which we
+live, it is the table at which we sit, it is the fireside at
+which we draw near, the room that arches its graceful
+and familiar presence over us; it is the bed on which
+we lie and think of the past, and anticipate the future,
+and gather our refreshment.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He
+always returns by way of His promises.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1
+John v. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering
+me from seeing, loving, holding communion with,
+and serving my Father, God. I conquer it when I lay
+my hand upon it and force it to help me to get nearer
+Him, to get more like Him, to think oftener of Him, to
+do His will more gladly and more constantly. The one
+victory over the world is to bend it to serve me in the
+highest things&mdash;the attainment of a clearer vision of
+the divine nature, the attainment of a deeper love to
+God Himself, and a more glad consecration and service
+to Him. That is the victory&mdash;when you can
+make the world a ladder to lift you to God. When the
+world comes between you and God as an obscuring
+screen, it has conquered you. When the world comes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+between you and God as a transparent medium you have
+conquered it. To win victory is to get it beneath your
+feet and stand upon it, and reach up thereby to God.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />September 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy
+ways. Psa. xci. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no
+work too low, if it come in thy way, since God thinks
+so much of it as to send His angels to guard thee in it.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/oct.png" width="600" height="111" alt="October" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>At Jesus' feet. Luke x. 39.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>At Jesus' feet&mdash;that is our place of privilege and of
+blessing, and here it is that we are to be educated and
+fitted for the practical duties of life. Here we are to
+renew our strength while we wait on Him, and to learn
+how to mount on wings as eagles; and here we are to
+become possessed of that true knowledge which is
+power. Here we are to learn how real work is to be
+done, and to be armed with the true motive power to do
+it. Here we are to find solace amidst both the trials of
+work&mdash;and they are not few&mdash;and the trials of life in
+general; and here we are to anticipate something of the
+blessedness of heaven amidst the days of earth; for to
+sit at His feet is indeed to be in heavenly places, and
+to gaze upon His glory is to do what we shall never tire
+of doing yonder.&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God
+in him. 1 John iv. 16.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><i>God is love;</i> and it is good, as it is true, to think that
+every sun-ray that touches the earth has the sun at the
+other end of it; so every bit of love upon God's earth
+has God at the other end of it.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<p><i>October 3rd.</i></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Acts
+iv. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus
+Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and
+eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is His
+living biography, written out in the words and actions
+of His people. If we were what we profess to be, and
+what we should be, we would be pictures of Christ; yea,
+such striking likenesses of Him that the world would
+not have to hold us up by the hour together, and say,
+"Well, it seems somewhat of a likeness": but they
+would, when they once beheld us, exclaim, "He has
+been with Jesus; he has been taught of Him; he is
+like Him; he has caught the very idea of the holy Man
+of Nazareth, and he works it out in his life and every
+day actions."&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be not afraid, only believe. Mark v. 36.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Be not downcast if difficulties and trials surround you
+in your heavenly life. They may be purposely placed
+there by God to train and discipline you for higher developments
+of faith. If He calls you to "toiling in
+rowing," it may be to make you the hardier seaman, to
+lead you to lift up the hands which hang down, and the
+feeble knees, and, above all, to drive you to a holier
+trust in Him who has the vessel and its destinies in His
+hand, and who, amid gathering clouds and darkened
+horizon and crested billows is ever uttering the mild
+rebuke to our misgivings&mdash;"Said I not unto thee, if
+thou wouldest believe, thou shouldst see the glory of
+God."&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Happy is the man whom God correcteth. Job v. 17.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Happy, because the correction is designed to bring
+him into paths of blessedness and peace.</p>
+
+<p>Happy, because there is no unnecessary severity
+in it.</p>
+
+<p>Happy, because the chastisement is not so much
+against us, as against our most cruel enemies&mdash;our sins.</p>
+
+<p>Happy, because we have abundant words of consolation.</p>
+
+<p>Happy, because whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.</p>
+
+<p>Happy, because our light affliction is but for a moment.&mdash;<i>George
+Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
+Matt. ii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We who look for Jesus ought to be joyful; it is no
+credit to our Lord when we look as though we were
+seeking His grave. The dull looks of Christ's followers
+have injured Him in the sight of the world. Let us,
+then, smile as we go, for we have the star if we will look
+up and put ourselves in the right path.&mdash;<i>Thos. Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me. Micah
+vii. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If you are willing to choose the seeming darkness of
+faith instead of the illumination of reason, wonderful
+light will break out upon you from the Word of God.&mdash;<i>A.
+J. Gordon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I (Daniel) was left alone, and saw this great vision. Dan. x. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Solitude is the antechamber of God; only one step<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span>
+more and you can be in His immediate presence.&mdash;<i>Landor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Come and dine. John xxi. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This morning the voice of the Beloved of our soul is
+heard giving us His invitation.</p>
+
+<p>"Children," He asks, "have ye any meat?"</p>
+
+<p>We answer, "No; of ourselves we have nothing but
+hunger and starvation. O God, we cannot feed ourselves!"</p>
+
+<p>Then it is that His own sweet voice replies, "Come
+and dine!"&mdash;<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>O Lord God, Thou knowest! Ezek. xxxvii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Here is the response of faith. "Thou knowest!"&mdash;what
+a pillow for the heart to repose upon! "Thou
+knowest!"&mdash;what few but comprehensive words to sum
+up and express the heart's difficulties and perplexities
+and trials. "Thou knowest!"&mdash;what an inexpressibly
+sweet resting-place in the midst of life's tumultuous
+heavings; in the midst of a sea that knows no calm; in
+the midst of a scene in which tossings to and fro are the
+hourly history! What an answer they contain for every
+heart that can find no words to express its big emotions;
+for a heart whose sorrows are too deep for language
+to find its way to God! Oh, that they were ever
+uppermost in the soul, as the response to every difficulty
+in our path! They are God's answer to everything we
+cannot fathom; God's answer for our hearts to rest upon,
+and our lips to utter, when every way is hedged up so
+that we cannot pass. "O Lord God, thou knowest!"
+Rest here, believer. Lean thy soul on these words.
+Repose calmly on the bosom of thy God, and carry them
+with thee into every scene of life. "O Lord God, thou
+knowest."&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to
+heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Think of that mystic ladder, which descends from the
+throne of God to the spot, however lowly, where you
+may be. It may be a moorland waste; a humble cottage;
+a ship's cabin; a settler's hut; a bed of pain; but
+Jesus Christ finds you out, and comes just where you
+are. The one pole of this ladder is the gold of His
+deity; the other is the silver of His manhood; the rungs
+are the series of events from the cradle of Bethlehem
+to the right hand of power, where He sits. That ladder
+sways beneath a weight of blessing for you. Oh,
+that you would send away your burdens of sin, and care,
+and fear, by the hands of the ascending angels of prayer
+and faith!&mdash;so as to be able to receive into your heart
+the trooping angels of peace, and joy, and love, and
+glory.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Surely God is in this place, and I knew it not. Gen. xxviii. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+The Parish Priest, of austerity,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Climbed up in the high church steeple</span><br />
+To be nearer God, that he might hand<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His word down to the people.</span><br />
+And in sermon script he daily wrote<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What he thought was sent from heaven;</span><br />
+And he dropped it down on the people's heads<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Two times one day in seven.</span><br />
+In his age God said, "Come down and die."<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he cried out from the steeple:</span><br />
+"Where art thou, Lord?" And the Lord replied:<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Down here among My people."&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
+judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
+in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
+Deut. iv. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess."
+This is a universal and abiding principle. It<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span>
+was true for Israel, and it is true for us. The pathway
+of life and the true secret of possession is simple obedience
+to the holy commandments of God. We see this
+all through the inspired volume, from cover to cover.
+God has given us His Word, not to speculate upon it or
+discuss it, but that we may obey it. And it is as we,
+through grace, yield a hearty and happy obedience to
+our Father's statutes and judgments, that we tread the
+bright pathway of life, and enter into the reality of all
+that God has treasured up for us in Christ.&mdash;<i>C. H. M.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now
+live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and
+gave Himself for me. Gal. ii. 20.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The man who lives in God knows no life except the
+life of God.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith
+and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 1 Thess. v. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><i>Faith, love, hope</i>&mdash;these three form the defensive armor
+that guards the soul; and these three make self-control
+possible. Like a diver in his dress who is let down
+to the bottom of the wild, far-weltering ocean, a man
+whose heart is girt by faith and charity, and whose head
+is covered with the helmet of hope, may be dropped
+down into the wildest sea of temptation and of worldliness,
+and yet will walk dry and unharmed through the
+midst of its depths, and breathe air that comes from a
+world above the restless surges. <i>Faith</i> will bring you
+into communication with all the power of God. <i>Love</i>
+will lead you into a region where all the temptations
+round you will be touched as by Ithuriel's spear, and
+will show their own foulness. And <i>Hope</i> will turn
+away your eyes from looking at the tempting splendor
+around, and fix them upon the glories that are above.
+And so the reins will come into your hands in an altogether
+new manner, and you will be able to be king<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span>
+over your own nature in a fashion that you did not
+dream of before, if only you will trust in Christ and
+love Him, and fix your desires on the things above.
+Then you will be able to govern yourself, when you let
+Christ govern you.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The word of our God shall stand forever. Isa. xl. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Word of God is the water of life; the more ye lave
+it forth, the fresher it runneth. It is the fire of God's
+glory; the more ye blow it, the clearer it burneth. It is
+the corn of the Lord's field; the better ye grind it, the
+more it yieldeth. It is the bread of heaven; the more it
+is broken and given forth, the more it remaineth. It is
+the sword of the Spirit; the more it is scoured, the
+brighter it shineth.&mdash;<i>Bishop Jewel.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I spake unto thee in thy prosperity. Jer. xxii. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We shade our eyes with the hand to shut out the
+glare of the strong daylight when we want to see far
+away. God thus puts, as it were, His hand upon our
+brows, and tempers the glow of prosperity, that we may
+take in the wider phases of His goodness. It is a common
+experience that, looking out from the gloom of
+some personal affliction, men have seen for the first time
+beyond the earth plane, and caught glimpses of the
+Beulah Land. Let us not shrink from the Hand which
+we know is heavy only with blessing.&mdash;<i>Ludlow.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. Psa. xci. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><i>He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.</i>
+That is, from the little things, the hidden traps and nets
+that are set for us. Great sins frighten where little
+snares entangle. It is easier to escape the huntsman's
+arrow than the crafty lure.</p>
+
+<p>And where are they not set? Riches and poverty,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span>
+sickness and strength, prosperity and adversity, friendship
+and loneliness, the work and the want of it&mdash;each
+has its snare, wherein not only are the unwary caught,
+but the wise and the watchful sometimes fall a prey.
+Little things, mere threads, hardly worth guarding against&mdash;yet
+they are strong enough to hold us and hinder us,
+and may be the beginning of our destruction.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Gen. iv. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We speak of the mark of Cain as if it was the mark
+of a curse. In reality it was the mark of God's mercy,
+a defence against his enemies.&mdash;<i>D. J. Burrell.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Who is among you that feareth the Lord .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. that walketh in
+darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord,
+and stay upon his God. Isa. l. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"In fierce storms," said an old seaman, "we can do
+but one thing, there is only one way; we must put the
+ship in a certain position and keep her there."</p>
+
+<p>This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes,
+like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no
+small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one
+thing; there is only one way. Reason cannot help you.
+Past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches
+no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must
+put your soul in one position and keep it there. You
+must stay upon the Lord; and, come what may&mdash;winds,
+waves, cross seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks,
+roaring breakers&mdash;no matter what, you must lash yourself
+to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God's
+faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting
+love in Christ Jesus.&mdash;<i>Richard Fuller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
+Rev. ii. 10.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There is a heaven at the end of every faithful
+Christian's journey.&mdash;<i>Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Flee into Egypt. Matt. ii. 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Why? Because there is a cruel king who will seek
+the young child's life.</p>
+
+<p>Is Christ born in thee? Is thy life like that manger&mdash;precious
+as a casket, because of what it holds? Then
+have a care; for, craftier and more unscrupulous
+than Herod, the destroyer of souls will seek to destroy
+thee.</p>
+
+<p>There is a day coming when they shall say, "They
+are dead which sought the young child's life." Grace
+shall survive the foe, and we shall yet return to enjoy
+the comforts of life, with no Herod to threaten us.
+After all, it is sin which is short-lived, for goodness
+shall flourish when the evil one is chained up for ever.&mdash;<i>Thos.
+Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>As my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. 1 Kings
+ii. 38.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is something infinitely better than doing a
+great thing for God, and the infinitely better thing is
+to be where God wants us to be, to do what God wants
+us to do, and to have no will apart from His.&mdash;<i>G.
+Campbell Morgan.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
+works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. v. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>They say the world has an eagle eye for anything inconsistent,
+an eye sharp to discover the vagaries and
+inconsistencies in the defaulty and the unworthy. It
+has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the sun,
+and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before
+the unsullied purity of noon. Let your light so shine<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span>
+before men, that others, awed and charmed by the consistency
+of your godly life, may come to enquire, and to
+say you have been with Jesus.&mdash;<i>Punshon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The eleven disciples went .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. into a mountain where Jesus
+had appointed them .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Jesus came and spake unto them saying
+.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Go ye and teach all nations. Matt. xxviii. 16, 18, 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The considerable actions in the world have usually
+very small beginnings. Of a few letters, how many
+thousand words are made! Of ten figures, how many
+thousand numbers! A point is the beginning of all
+geometry. A little stone flung into a pond makes a
+little circle, then a greater, till it enlarges itself to both
+the sides. So from small beginnings God doth cause
+an efflux through the whole world.&mdash;<i>Charnock.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
+people. Luke ii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is true that these good tidings of great joy were to
+be "for all people," but not <i>first</i>. The message falls on
+our own ears, and is first for our own souls.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, ponder this well! Take all God's truths home
+<i>first</i> to thine own heart. Ask in earnest prayer that
+the Spirit may write them with the pen of heaven on
+thine own conscience. Then wilt thou be a vessel fitted
+for the Master's use, and carry His message with
+spiritual power to the souls of others.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of
+heaven: nor are sorrow and care any mark of God's
+disfavor, but the reverse. God's love is robust, and
+true, and eager&mdash;not for our comfort, but for our lasting
+blessedness; it is bent on achieving this, and it is
+strong enough to bear misrepresentation and rebuke in
+its attempts to attune our spirits to higher music. It<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span>
+therefore comes instructing us. Let us enter ourselves
+as pupils in the school of God's love. Let us lay aside
+our own notions of the course of study; let us submit
+ourselves to be led and taught; let us be prepared for
+any lessons that may be given from the blackboard of
+sorrow: let us be so assured of the inexhaustible tenacity
+of His love as to dare to trust Him, though He slay us.
+And let us look forward to that august moment when
+He will give us a reason for all life's discipline, with a
+smile that shall thrill our souls with ecstasy, and constrain
+sorrow and sighing to flee away forever.&mdash;<i>F.
+B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it
+you. John xvi. 23.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Prayer must be based upon promise, but, thank God,
+His promises are always broader than our prayers! No
+fear of building inverted pyramids here, for Jesus
+Christ is the foundation.&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a
+towel, and girded Himself. After that He poureth water into a basin,
+and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
+wherewith He was girded. John xiii. 4, 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Acts are common and mean because they are ordinarily
+expressive of the common and mean thoughts of
+men. Let us not accuse the acts that make up our
+daily life of meanness, but our ignoble souls that reveal
+themselves so unworthily through those acts. The
+same act may successively mount up through every
+intermediate stage from the depth of unworthiness to a
+transcendent height of excellence, according to the soul
+that is manifested by it. One of the glorious ends of
+our Lord's incarnation was that He might propitiate us
+with the details of life, so that we should not disdain
+these as insignificant, but rather disdain ourselves for
+our inability to make these details interpreters of a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span>
+noble nature. Oh, let us then look with affectionateness
+and gratitude upon the daily details of life, seeing
+the sanctifying imprint of the hand of Jesus upon them
+all!&mdash;<i>George Bowen.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He placed .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. cherubims, and a flaming sword .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. to
+keep the way of the tree of life. Gen. iii. 24.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have
+right to the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last
+page of the Revelation should come bending round to
+touch the first page of Genesis. The history of man
+began with angels with frowning faces and flaming
+swords barring the way to the Tree of Life. It ends
+with the guard of cherubim withdrawn; or rather, perhaps,
+sheathing their swords and becoming guides to
+the no longer forbidden fruit, instead of being its guards.
+That is the Bible's grand symbolical way of saying that
+all between&mdash;the sin, the misery, the death&mdash;is a parenthesis.
+God's purpose is not going to be thwarted. The
+end of His majestic march through history is to be
+men's access to the Tree of Life, from which, for the
+dreary ages&mdash;that are but as a moment in the great
+eternities&mdash;they were barred out by their sin,&mdash;<i>Alex.
+McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />October 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
+give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
+Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Eph. i.
+17, 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We were coming down a mountain in Switzerland
+one evening, when a black thunder-storm blotted out
+the day, and all things were suddenly plunged into
+darkness. We could only dimly see the narrow, dusty
+footpaths, and the gloomy sides that were swallowed up
+in deeper gloom. What, then, of the majesty all
+about us, heights, and depths, and wonders? All was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span>
+darkness. Then came the lightning&mdash;not flashes, but
+the blazing of the whole sky, incessant, and on every side.
+What recesses of glory we gazed into! What marvels
+of splendor shone out of the darkness!</p>
+
+<p>Think how with us, in us, is One who comes to make
+the common, dusty ways of life resplendent, illuminating
+our dull thoughts by the light of the glory of God;
+clearing the vision of the soul, and then revealing the
+greatness of the salvation that is ours in Christ.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/nov.png" width="600" height="92" alt="November" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. John
+viii. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Alone with Jesus! What a sweet and holy spot!
+What a blessed refuge to which the soul may betake
+itself from the charges of Satan, the accusations of the
+world, and the sorrows of life! Sweet spot for the heart
+to unfold itself, to tell its hidden tale in the ear of Infinite
+love, tenderness, and compassion!</p>
+
+<p>Alone with Jesus! How different a front would
+Christianity present to the world if the Lord's people
+were oftener there! What humility, and gentleness,
+and love, would characterize all their dealings! What
+holiness stamped on the very brow, that all might read!
+What few judgments passed on others, how many more
+on ourselves! What calmness and resignation and joyful
+submission to all the Lord's dealings!</p>
+
+<p>Be much "alone with Jesus!" Then will the passage
+to glory be one of sunshine, whether it be through the
+<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'porals'">portals</ins> of the grave or through the clouds of heaven.&mdash;<i>F.
+Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fullness of
+joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psa. xvi. 11.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The man who walks along the path of life lives in the
+presence of the joy-giving God. Just in so far as he is
+true to that path of life, and wanders neither to the
+right hand nor to the left, his joy becomes deeper, nay!
+he becomes partaker of that very fullness of joy in
+which God Himself lives, and moves, and has His being.
+And while such is his experience in the midst of all the
+trials of life, he has also the privilege of looking forward
+to grander things yet in store for him, when that
+higher world shall be reached, and the shadows of time
+have passed away forever. "At Thy right hand," exclaims
+the psalmist, "there are pleasures for evermore."&mdash;<i>W.
+Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be clothed with humility. 1 Pet. v. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we
+have more officers than men? We need more of the
+rank and file, who are willing to march anywhere, and
+to do the lowliest of tasks. We shall succeed in doing
+greater things when we are all of us willing to be subject.
+It is the bayonet rather than the gold lace which
+is wanted when the enemy is to be subdued.&mdash;<i>Thomas
+Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, Esau came, and
+with him four hundred men. Gen. xxxiii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Do not lift up your eyes and look for Esaus. Those
+who look for troubles will not be long without finding
+trouble to look at. Lift them higher&mdash;to Him from
+whom our help cometh. Then you will be able to meet
+your troubles with an unperturbed spirit. Those who
+have seen the face of God need not fear the face of man
+that shall die. To have power with God is to have
+power over all the evils that threaten us.&mdash;<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
+perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Cor. vii. 1.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Tree of Life, according to some of the old rabbinical
+legends, lifted its branches, by an indwelling
+motion, high above impure hands that were stretched
+to touch them; and until our hands are cleansed
+through faith in Jesus Christ, its richest fruit hangs
+unreachable, golden above our heads. The fullness of
+the life of heaven is only granted to those who, drawing
+near Jesus Christ by faith on earth, have thereby
+cleansed themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
+spirit.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind
+them. Ex. xiv. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is not always guidance that we most need. Many
+of our dangers come upon us from behind. They are
+stealthy, insidious, assaulting us when we are unaware
+of their nearness. The tempter is cunning and shrewd.
+He does not meet us full front. It is a comfort to know
+that Christ comes behind us when it is there we need
+the protection.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, Thou shall
+purge them away. Psa. lxv. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There is much earnest religion that lives in the dreary
+compass of these first four words, "Iniquities prevail
+against me," and never gets a glimpse beyond it. But
+do not put a full stop there. Fetch in One who can
+help. "As for our transgressions, <span class="smcap">Thou</span> shalt purge
+them away." The moment we bring the Lord in, that
+moment defeat is turned to triumphant deliverance!</p>
+
+<p>Write that up in golden letters&mdash;<span class="smcap">Thou</span>! And do not
+find in this word only a trembling hope, or a wondering
+wish. Listen to its full assurance&mdash;<span class="smcap">Thou shalt</span>!</p>
+
+<p>There is but one result that can warrant the agony of
+Calvary; there is but one result that can satisfy either
+our blessed Savior or ourselves; and that is our being
+conquerors over sin.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Speaking the truth in love. Eph. iv. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The best way of eradicating error is to publish and
+practice truth.&mdash;<i>W. Arnot.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>So he arose, and went to Zarephath. 1 Kings xvii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Let it be equally said of you to whatever duty the
+Lord may call you away, "He arose and went." Be the
+way ever so laborious or dangerous, still arise, like Elijah,
+and go. Go cheerfully, in faith, keeping your
+heart quietly dependent on the Lord, and in the end
+you will surely behold and sing of His goodness.
+Though tossed on a sea of troubles you may anchor on
+the firm foundation of God, which standeth sure. You
+have for your security His exceeding great and precious
+promises, and may say with the psalmist, "Why art
+thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
+within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise
+Him who is the health of my countenance, and my
+God."&mdash;<i>F. W. Krummacher.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The acts of breathing which I performed yesterday
+will not keep me alive to-day; I must continue to
+breathe afresh every moment, or animal life ceases. In
+like manner yesterday's grace and spiritual strength
+must be renewed, and the Holy Spirit must continue to
+breathe on my soul from moment to moment in order to
+my enjoying the consolations, and to my working the
+works of God.&mdash;<i>Toplady.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the
+hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to
+the potter to make it. Jer. xviii. 4. (R. V.)</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>God's fairest, highest place of service in the land that
+lies beyond will be filled by the men and women who
+have been broken upon the wheel on earth.&mdash;<i>G. Campbell
+Morgan.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Examine yourselves. 2 Cor. xiii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If your state be good, searching into it will give you
+that comfort of it. If your state be bad, searching into
+it cannot make it worse; nay, it is the only way to make
+it better, for conversion begins with conviction.&mdash;<i>Bishop
+Hopkins.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Josh. xxiv. 15.</i></p></div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Choice and service</span>&mdash;these were demanded of the
+Israelites; these are demanded of you, these only.
+Choice and service&mdash;in these are the whole of life.&mdash;<i>Mark
+Hopkins.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Psa.
+xc. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You may
+gather around him a chorus of the choicest birds; you
+may give him a perch on the goodliest pine; you may
+charge winged messengers to bring him choicest dainties;
+but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lordly wings,
+and with his eye on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away
+to his own ancestral halls amid the munitions of rocks
+and the wild music of tempest and waterfall.</p>
+
+<p>The soul of man, in its eagle soarings, will rest with
+nothing short of the Rock of Ages. Its ancestral halls
+are the halls of heaven. Its munitions of rocks are the
+attributes of God. The sweep of its majestic flight is
+Eternity! "Lord, <span class="smcap">Thou</span> hast been our dwelling place
+in all generations!"&mdash;<i>Macduff.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He hath said. Heb. xiii. 5.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>If we can only grasp these words of faith, we have
+an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt is
+there that will not be slain by this two-edged sword?
+What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a
+deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God's
+covenant? "He hath said!" Yes; whether for delight
+in our quietude, or for strength in our conflict, "He
+hath said!" must be our daily resort.</p>
+
+<p>Since "He hath said" is the source of all wisdom,
+and the fountain of all comfort, let it dwell in you richly,
+as "a well of water, springing up unto everlasting life."
+So shall you grow healthy, strong, and happy, in the
+divine life.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Not I, but Christ liveth in me. Gal. ii. 20.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The wonder of the life in Jesus is this&mdash;and you will
+find it so, and you have found it so, if you have ever
+taken your New Testament and tried to make it the
+rule of your daily life&mdash;that there is not a single action
+that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of
+which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes
+as to what Jesus Christ, if He were here, Jesus Christ
+being here, would have you do under those circumstances
+and with the material upon which you are called to act.
+The soul that takes in Jesus' word, the soul that through
+the words of Jesus enters into the very person of Jesus, the
+soul that knows Him as its daily presence and its daily
+law&mdash;it never hesitates.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Who is my neighbor? Luke x. 29.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"Who is thy neighbor?" It is the sufferer, wherever,
+whoever, whatsoever he be. Wherever thou hearest the
+cry of distress, wherever thou seest anyone brought<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span>
+across thy path by the chances and changes of life (that
+is, by the Providence of God), whom it is in thy power
+to help&mdash;he, stranger or enemy though he be&mdash;<i>he</i> is thy
+neighbor.&mdash;<i>A. P. Stanley.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He which stablisheth us .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. in Christ, and hath anointed
+us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit
+in our hearts. 2 Cor. i. 21, 22.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>When a Christian is "sealed" by the Holy Ghost,
+"sealed" as the property of his Master, there will be no
+need to ask, "Whose image and superscription is this"
+upon the "sealed" one? The King's, of course. Anyone
+can see the image.</p>
+
+<p>Of what use is a "seal" if it cannot be seen?</p>
+
+<p>Is the King's image visibly, permanently, stamped
+upon us? It is on every Spirit-filled, "sealed" believer.&mdash;<i>John
+McNeil.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of
+Zerubbabel. Zech. iv. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is joy to the Christian to know that the plummet
+is now in the hands of our great Zerubbabel, and
+that when He comes forth, the world's misrule shall be
+over. The false standards and false estimates of men
+shall be swept away. The standards of "expediency,"
+of "conscience," of "every man thinking as he likes, if
+he is only <i>sincere</i>"&mdash;these, and all similar refuges of
+lies shall be like a spider's web. The measure of all
+things will be Christ, and Christ the Measurer of all
+things.</p>
+
+<p>How everything will be reversed! What a turning
+upside down of all that now exists!</p>
+
+<p>Blessed day, and longed for&mdash;the world's great jubilee,
+the earth's long-looked-for Sabbath, groaning creation's
+joy, and nature's calm repose! Who would not cry,
+"Come, Lord Jesus, and end this troubled dream!
+Shatter the shadows of the long, dark night of sin and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span>
+sorrow, sighing and tears, despair and death!"&mdash;<i>F.
+Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I
+have overcome the world. John xvi. 33.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Tribulation is God's threshing&mdash;not to destroy us, but
+to get what is good, heavenly, and spiritual in us
+separated from what is wrong, earthly, and fleshly.
+Nothing less than blows of pain will do this. The evil
+clings so to the good, the golden wheat of goodness in
+us is so wrapped up in the strong chaff of the old life
+that only the heavy flail of suffering can produce the
+separation.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying
+.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Write. Rev. i. 10, 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is very sweet to note that a voice from heaven said
+to John, "Write." Does not that voice come to us?
+Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven
+if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection?
+Are there not others who would dry their tears if we
+would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as
+they are now? Nay, could not some, who read these
+plain words, place inside the envelope something bearing
+their signature which would make the widow's
+heart dance for joy?</p>
+
+<p>What is our pen doing? Is it adding joy to other
+men's lives? If so, then angels may tune their harps
+when we sit at our desk. They are sent to minister to
+the heirs of salvation, and would be glad to look upon
+our pen as writing music for them to sing, because
+what we write makes their client's joy to be full.&mdash;<i>Thomas
+Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>We should ever bear in mind that the discipline of
+our heavenly Father's hand is to be interpreted in the
+light of our Father's countenance; and the deep mysteries
+of His moral government to be contemplated through
+the medium or His tender love.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 Thess. v. 24.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Earthly faithfulness is possible only by the reception
+of heavenly gifts. As surely as every leaf that grows is
+mainly water that the plant has got from the clouds,
+and carbon that it has got out of the atmosphere, so
+surely will all our good be mainly drawn from heaven
+and heaven's gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal
+that you put upon your fire contains in itself sunbeams
+that have been locked up for all these millenniums that
+have passed since it waved green in the forest, so
+certainly does every good deed embody in itself gifts
+from above. And no man is pure except by impartation;
+and every good thing and every perfect thing cometh
+from the Father of lights.&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col. iii. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Remember your life is to be a singing life. This
+world is God's grand cathedral for you. You are to be
+one of God's choristers, and there is to be a continual
+eucharistic sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving going up
+from your heart, with which God shall be continually
+well pleased. And there should be not only the offering
+of the lips, but the surrender of the life with joy. Yes,
+with <i>joy</i>, and not with <i>constraint</i>. Every faculty of our
+nature should be presented to Him in gladsome service,
+for the Lord Jehovah is my song as well as my strength.&mdash;<i>W.
+Hay Aitken.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Call to remembrance the former days. Heb. x. 32.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><i>The former days</i>&mdash;times of trial, conflict, discouragement,
+temptation. Did we oftener call these to remembrance,
+with how much more delight would we make the
+covert of God's faithfulness our refuge, exclaiming with
+the psalmist, "Because Thou hast been my help, therefore
+in the shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice."&mdash;<i>R.
+Fuller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. thy habitation. Psa. xci. 9.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We go home without arrangement. We plan our
+visits, and then go home because they are over. Duty,
+want, a host of things, lead us forth elsewhere; but the
+heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he whose
+thoughts pass up to God, not because they are driven
+like a fisherman's craft swept by the fierceness of the
+storm, not because they are forced by want or fear, not
+because they are led by the hand of duty, but because
+God is in his habitation and his home. Loosed from
+other things, the thoughts go home for rest.</p>
+
+<p>In God the blessed man finds the love that welcomes.
+There is the sunny place. There care is loosed and toil
+forgotten. There is the joyous freedom, the happy calm,
+the rest, and renewing of our strength&mdash;at home with
+God.&mdash;<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>These have turned the world upside down. Acts xvii. 6.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>None of these things move me. Acts xx. 24.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The men that move the world are the ones who do not
+let the world move them.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
+Gen. xxxii. 32.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Whatever it is that enables a soul, whom God designs
+to bless, to stand out against Him, God will touch. It
+may be the pride of wealth, or of influence, or of affection;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span>
+but it will not be spared&mdash;God will touch it. It may be
+something as <i>natural</i> as a sinew; but if it robs a man of
+spiritual blessing God will touch it. It may be as <i>small</i>
+a thing as a sinew; but its influence in making a man
+strong in his resistance of blessing will be enough to
+condemn it&mdash;and God will touch it. And beneath that
+touch it will shrink and shrivel, and you will limp to
+the end of life.</p>
+
+<p>Remember that the sinew never shrinks save beneath
+the touch of the angel hand&mdash;the touch of tender love.&mdash;<i>F.
+B. Meyer.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>With God all things are possible. Mark x. 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Unbelief says, "How can such and such things be?"
+It is full of "hows"; but faith has one great answer to
+the ten thousand "hows," and that answer is&mdash;<span class="smcap">God</span>!&mdash;<i>C.
+H. M.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />November 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell
+in them, and walk in them. 2 Cor. vi. 16.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>These temples were reared for Him. Let Him fill
+them so completely that, like the oriental temple of glass
+in the ancient legend, the temple shall not be seen, but
+only the glorious sunlight, which not only shines into it,
+but through it, and the transparent walls are all unseen.&mdash;<i>A.
+B. Simpson.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/dec.png" width="600" height="90" alt="DECEMBER" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 1st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Without Christ. Eph. ii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Without a hope to cheer, a Pilot to steer, a Friend to
+counsel, grace to sustain, heaven to welcome us, and
+God to console!&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 2nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When I am weak, then am I strong. 2 Cor. xii. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This is God's way. We advance by going backwards,
+we become strong by becoming weak, we become wise
+by being fools.&mdash;<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 3rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2
+Pet. i. 21.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The Bible is the writing of the living God. Each
+letter was penned with an almighty finger. Each word
+in it dropped from the everlasting lips. Each sentence
+was dictated by the Holy Spirit. Albeit that Moses
+was employed to write his histories with his fiery pen,
+God guided that pen. It may be that David touched
+his harp, and let sweet psalms of melody drop from his
+fingers; but God moved his hands over the living strings
+of his golden harp. Solomon sang canticles of love
+and gave forth words of consummate wisdom; but God
+directed his lips, and made the preacher eloquent. If
+I follow the thundering Nahum, when his horses plough
+the waters; or Habakkuk, when he sees the tents of
+Cushan in affliction; if I read Malachi, when the earth
+is burning like an oven; if I turn to the smooth page of
+John, who tells of love; or the rugged chapters of Peter,
+who speaks of fire devouring God's enemies; if I turn
+aside to Jude, who launches forth anathemas upon the
+foes of God&mdash;everywhere I find God speaking; it is
+God's voice, not man's; the words are God's words; the
+words of the Eternal, the Invisible, the Almighty, the
+Jehovah of ages. This Bible is God's Bible; and when
+I see it, I seem to hear a voice springing up from it, saying,
+"I am the Book of God. Man, read me. I am
+God's writing. Study my page, for I was penned by
+God. Love me, for He is my Author, and you will see
+Him visible and manifest everywhere."&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 4th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>They all forsook Him, and fled. Mark xiv. 50.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Separation never comes from His side.&mdash;<i>J. Hudson
+Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 5th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Belshazzar the king made a great feast. Dan. v. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>There was one Guest not invited, but He came, and
+the work of His finger glowed upon the wall.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 6th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Prov. xi. 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The effective life and the receptive life are one. No
+sweep of arm that does some work for God but harvests
+also some more of the truth of God, and sweeps it into
+the treasury of life.&mdash;<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 7th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>And they came unto Him, bringing one sick of the palsy. Mark
+ii. 3.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Had it not been for the palsy, this man might never
+have seen Christ!&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 8th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies. Ps.
+ciii. 2, 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>We talk about the telescope of faith, but I think we
+want even more the microscope of watchful and grateful
+love. Apply this to the little bits of our daily lives,
+in the light of the Spirit, and how wonderfully they
+come out!&mdash;<i>Frances Ridley Havergal.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 9th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee. Is.
+xliii. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God's presence in the trial is much better than exemption
+from the trial. The sympathy of His heart
+with us is sweeter far than the power of His hand for
+us.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 10th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then shall ye discern between the righteous and the wicked. Mal.
+iii. 18.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Said Anne of Austria to Cardinal Richelieu: "God
+does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays at
+last!"&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 11th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeared for a little
+time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"Only one life; 'twill soon be past&mdash;<br />
+And only what's done for Christ will last."&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 12th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He (Jesus) .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. looked up to heaven. Mark vi. 41.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>In working for God, first look to heaven. It is a
+grand plan. Over and over again our Lord Jesus
+Christ looked to heaven and said, "Father." Let us
+imitate Him; although standing on the earth, let us
+have our conversation in heaven. Before you go out, if
+you would feed the world, if you would be a blessing in
+the midst of spiritual dearth and famine, lift up your
+head to heaven. Then your very face will shine, your
+very garments will smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia
+out of the ivory palaces where you have been with your
+God and Savior. There will be stamped upon you the
+dignity and power of the service of the Most High God.&mdash;<i>McNeil.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 13th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>This name suggests that the clear impression made
+by our character, as well as by our words, should be
+that we belong to Jesus Christ. He should manifestly
+be the center and the guide, the impulse and the
+pattern, the strength and reward, of our lives. We are
+Christians. That should be plain for all folks to see,
+whether we speak or be silent.</p>
+
+<p>Is it so with you?&mdash;<i>Alex. McLaren.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 14th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Having therefore these promises. 2 Cor. vii. 1.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The forests in summer days are full of birds' nests.
+They are hidden among the leaves. The little birds
+know where they are; and when a storm arises, or when
+night draws on, they fly, each to his own nest. So the
+promises of God are hidden in the Bible, like nests in
+the great forests; and thither we should fly in any danger
+or alarm, hiding there in our soul's nest until the
+storm be overpast. There are no castles in this world
+so impregnable as the words of Christ.&mdash;<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 15th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is
+love. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. (R. V.)</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Love is the greatest thing that God can give us: for
+Himself is Love; and it is the greatest thing we can
+give to God: for it will give ourselves, and carry with it
+all that is ours.&mdash;<i>Jeremy Taylor.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 16th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He (Thomas) .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. said, Except I shall see .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I will not believe.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+Jesus .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. said .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 25, 27.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Every doubt in the heart of a Christian is a dishonor
+done to the Word of God, and the sacrifice of Christ.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 17th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Lot .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. pitched his tent toward Sodom. Gen. xiii. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>And soon Lot moved into Sodom; and before long
+Sodom moved into him.&mdash;<i>Theodore Cuyler.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 18th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The world needs men who are free from secret faults.
+Most men are free from gross, public faults.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 19th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A hearer of the word .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. a doer of the work. Jas. i. 23, 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Religion may be learned on Sunday, but it is lived in
+the week-day's work. The torch of religion may be lit
+in the church, but it does its burning in the shop and
+on the street. Religion seeks its life in prayer, but it
+lives its life in deeds. It is planted in the closet, but it
+does its growing out in the world. It plumes itself for
+flight in songs of praise, but its actual flights are in
+works of love. It resolves and meditates on faithfulness
+as it reads its Christian lesson in the Book of
+Truth, but "faithful is that faithful does." It puts its
+armor on in all the aids and helps of the sanctuary as
+its dressing-room, but it combats for the right, the
+noble, and the good in all the activities of practical
+existence, and its battle ground is the whole broad field
+of life.&mdash;<i>John Doughty.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 20th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. James iv. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>"To-morrow" is the devil's great ally&mdash;the very
+Goliath in whom he trusts for victory. "Now" is the
+stripling sent forth against him.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. The world
+will freely agree to be Christians to-morrow if Christ
+will permit them to be worldly to-day.&mdash;<i>William Arnot.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 21st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The sea wrought, and was tempestuous. Jonah i. 11.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Sin in the soul is like Jonah in the ship. It turns
+the smoothest water into a tempestuous sea.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 22nd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Be not doubtful, but followers of them also, through faith and
+patience, inherit the promises. Heb. vi. 12.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>God makes a promise. Faith believes it. Hope anticipates
+it. Patience quietly awaits it.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 23rd.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Go and sit down in the lowest room. Luke xiv. 10.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>He who is willing to take the lowest place will always
+find sitting room; there is no great crush for the worst
+places. There is nothing like the jostling at the back
+there is at the front; so if we would be comfortable, we
+shall do well to keep behind.&mdash;<i>Thomas Champness.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 24th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of
+town children, who knock at their neighbor's houses
+and then run away; we often knock at heaven's door and
+then run off into the spirit of the world; instead of
+waiting for entrance and answer, we act as if we were
+afraid of having our prayers answered.&mdash;<i>Williams.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 25th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to
+God in the highest. Luke ii. 13, 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Angels had been present on many august occasions,
+and they had joined in many a solemn chorus to the
+praise of their Almighty Creator. They were present
+at the creation: "The morning stars sang together, and
+all the sons of God shouted for joy." They had seen
+many a planet fashioned between the palms of Jehovah,
+and wheeled by His eternal hands through the infinitude
+of space. They had sung solemn songs over many
+a world which the Great One had created. We doubt
+not, they had often chanted, "Blessing and honor, and
+glory, and majesty, and power, and dominion, and might,
+be unto Him that sitteth on the throne," manifesting
+Himself in the work of creation. I doubt not, too, that
+their songs had gathered force through ages. As when
+first created, their first breath was song, so when they
+saw God create new worlds, then their song received
+another note; they rose a little higher in the gamut of
+adoration. But this time, when they saw God stoop<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span>
+from His throne and become a babe hanging upon a
+woman's breast, they lifted their notes higher still; and
+reaching to the uttermost stretch of angelic music, they
+gained the highest notes of the divine scale of praise
+and they sang, "Glory to God <i>in the highest</i>," for
+higher in goodness they felt God could not go. Thus
+their highest praise they gave to Him in the highest act
+of His Godhead.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 26th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
+Christ. Gal. vi. 14.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The cross is the great center of God's moral universe!
+To this center God ever pointed, and the eye of faith
+ever looked forward, until the Savior came. And now
+we must ever turn to that cross as the center of all our
+blessing, and the basis of all our worship, both on earth
+and in heaven&mdash;in time and throughout all eternity.</p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 27th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He ever liveth. Heb. vii. 25.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and
+for mankind. Men come and go. Leaders, teachers,
+thinkers, speak and work for a season, and then fall
+silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He
+lives. They are lights kindled, and therefore, sooner or
+later quenched, but He is the true Light from which
+they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.&mdash;<i>Alex.
+McLaren.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 28th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>It is like the ivy with the oak. The ivy may give the
+oak a grand, beautiful appearance, but all the while it
+is feeding on its vitals. Are we compromising with the
+enemies of God? Are we being embraced by the world
+by its honors, its pleasures, its applause? This may
+add to us in the world's estimation, but our strength
+becomes lost.&mdash;<i>Denham Smith.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 29th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>She (Hannah) .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.
+she spake in her heart. 1 Sam. i. 10, 13.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>For real business at the mercy-seat give me a home-made
+prayer, a prayer that comes out of the depths of
+my heart, not because I invented it, but because God
+the Holy Ghost, put it there, and gave it such living
+force that I could not help letting it out. Though your
+words are broken, and your sentences disconnected, if
+your desires are earnest, if they are like coals of juniper,
+burning with a vehement flame, God will not mind how
+they find expression. If you have no words, perhaps
+you will pray better without them than with them.
+There are prayers that break the backs of words; they
+are too heavy for any human language to carry.&mdash;<i>Spurgeon.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 30th.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi. 8.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Noah found grace in the same way that Paul obtained
+mercy (1 Tim. 1: 16), namely, by mercy's taking hold
+of him.&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='date'><br />December 31st.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul. Heb. vi. 19.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>Anchor to the throne of God, and then shorten the
+rope!&mdash;<i>Selected.</i></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3>
+<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</p>
+<p><a href="#Page_4">Page 4</a>, there was a reference "11:10" listed under Ephesians. As Ephesians doesn't
+have eleven chapters, the transcriber checked page 78. Ephesians 2, written as ii, is on page
+78 and is already listed under Ephesians. The reference to 11:10 being on page 78 was removed.</p>
+<p>The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'apprear'">appear</ins>.</p></div>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, by Various
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+Title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
+
+Author: Various
+
+Editor: Dwight L. Moody
+
+Release Date: September 2, 2011 [EBook #37292]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOUGHTS FOR THE QUIET HOUR ***
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+[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and italic
+text by _underscores_.]
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+
+THOUGHTS
+
+FOR
+
+THE QUIET HOUR
+
+Edited By D. L. Moody
+
+[Illustration]
+
+        Fleming H. Revell Company
+        CHICAGO : NEW YORK : TORONTO
+        _Publishers of Evangelical Literature_
+
+
+
+
+        Copyrighted 1900
+        by
+        Fleming H. Revell Company
+
+
+
+
+TO THE READER
+
+
+One of the brightest signs of the times is that many Christians in our
+Young People's Societies and churches are observing a "Quiet Hour"
+daily. In this age of rush and activity we need some special call to go
+apart and be alone with God for a part of each day. Any man or woman who
+does this faithfully and earnestly cannot be more than twenty-four hours
+away from God.
+
+The selections given in this volume were first published in the monthly
+issues of the "_Record of Christian Work_," and were found very helpful
+for devotional purposes. They are also a mine of thoughts, to light up
+the verses quoted. Being of permanent value, it has been thought
+desirable to transfer them from the pages of the magazine to this
+permanent volume.
+
+May they have a helpful ministry, leading many into closer communion
+with God!
+
+                              [Illustration: D. L. Moody]
+
+
+
+
+Index of Texts Quoted in This Volume.
+
+        =Genesis=
+         1: 4,         34
+         2: 7,         36
+         3: 3,         71
+            9,          5
+           24,        109
+         4:15,        105
+         6: 8,        128
+        12: 1,         18
+        13:12,        124
+           15,         37
+        16: 9,         94
+        18:17,         96
+        25: 8,     18, 28
+           11,         68
+        28:12,        102
+           15,         60
+           16,    69, 102
+        32: 1,         24
+           32,        119
+        33: 1,        111
+
+
+        =Exodus=
+         2: 3,         32
+         4:13,         32
+        14:13,          6
+           19,        112
+        20: 3,         81
+        24:18,         11
+        28: 2,         12
+        33:14,         88
+        34: 2,         25
+
+
+        =Numbers=
+         9:23,         20
+        11:14,         51
+        13:27,         38
+           28,         38
+
+
+        =Deuteronomy=
+         1: 2,         26
+         4: 1,        102
+        18:14,         80
+        33:25,     63, 69
+
+
+        =Joshua=
+         4:21,         20
+         5:14,         26
+        23:11,          7
+        24:15,        114
+
+
+        =Judges=
+         6:14,         78
+         8:18,         38
+
+
+        =I. Samuel=
+         1:10,        128
+           13,        128
+           27,         50
+           28,         50
+         2: 3,         23
+        12:24,         43
+
+
+        =II. Samuel=
+         5:19,         57
+        22:36,         24
+
+
+        =I. Kings=
+         2:34,        106
+         8:12,         94
+           13,         94
+        17: 3,         52
+           10,        113
+
+
+        =II. Kings=
+         6:17,         11
+        10: 5,         74
+        25:30,    39, 113
+
+
+        =I. Chronicles=
+         4:23,         92
+
+
+        =Job=
+         5:17,        100
+
+
+        =Psalms=
+         5: 3,         12
+        16:11,        110
+        19:12,    74, 124
+        21: 4,         90
+        23: 2,         38
+            3,         31
+        25: 4,         12
+        32: 8,         93
+        34: 1,         51
+           19,          6
+        39: 3,         52
+        55:22,         58
+        62: 5,         40
+        63: 1,         45
+        65: 3,        112
+        78:14,         91
+        90: 1,        114
+           12,         96
+        91: 3,        104
+            9,        119
+           11,         98
+        100:2,         95
+        103:2,        122
+            4,        122
+           19,         53
+        118:14,         6
+        119:117,       72
+        134: 1,        17
+             3,        17
+        145: 2,         9
+            16,        17
+
+
+        =Proverbs=
+         4:18,         34
+           23,         53
+        11:25,        121
+        13:25,         47
+        16:32,         50
+        27: 1,         21
+
+
+        =Ecclesiastes=
+        9:10,          78
+
+
+        =Song of Solomon=
+         1: 5,         57
+            6,         37
+         2: 3,         13
+           15,         35
+         3: 1,         30
+         4:16,         70
+         7:10,         57
+
+
+        =Isaiah=
+         6: 5,         51
+        30:18,         19
+        32:20,         72
+        40: 8,        104
+           31,     10, 31,
+                   42, 80
+        41:13,         43
+           14,         21
+        43: 2,        112
+        48:10,         94
+        49: 5,         14
+           23,         44
+        50:10,        105
+        56: 2,         72
+
+
+        =Jeremiah=
+        18: 4,        113
+        22:21,        104
+
+
+        =Ezekiel=
+        12: 8,         36
+        34:26,         85
+        36:37,         88
+        37: 3,        101
+
+
+        =Daniel=
+         5: 1,        122
+         6:20,         15
+         9: 9,         89
+        10: 8,        109
+
+
+        =Hosea=
+         6: 3,         18
+
+
+        =Jonah=
+         1:11,        125
+
+
+        =Micah=
+         7: 8,        100
+
+
+        =Zechariah=
+         4:10,    64, 116
+        13: 1,         56
+
+
+        =Malachi=
+         3: 6,         85
+           18,        123
+
+
+        =Matthew=
+         2:10,        100
+           13,        106
+         5:14,     45, 55
+           16,        106
+           45,         35
+           48,         65
+         6: 6,         95
+           32,         75
+           33,         30
+         8: 6,         72
+        10: 8,         68
+           42,         52
+        14:14,         81
+           23,         81
+           22,         59
+        15:28,         44
+        20:18,         92
+           28,         93
+        25:21,         59
+           26,         59
+           24-26,      44
+        26:39,         15
+           40,         40
+        27:32,         54
+        28:16,        107
+           18,        107
+           19,        107
+           20,         41
+
+
+        =Mark=
+         2: 3,        122
+         5:36,         99
+         6:41,        123
+         7:34,         46
+        10:17,        120
+        13:34,         22
+        14:41,         65
+           50,        121
+
+
+        =Luke=
+         2:10,        107
+           13,        126
+           14,        126
+         5: 3,         77
+            5,         85
+         7: 5,         19
+        10:29,        115
+           39,         98
+        14:10,        126
+           11,         49
+           27,         62
+        16:10,          8
+        24:16,         31
+           18,         13
+           31,         32
+           34,         47
+
+
+        =John=
+         1: 4,         45
+           36,         71
+           37,         71
+           45,         23
+           46,         23
+         2:3-5,    48, 76
+           11,         91
+         3: 8,         23
+         4: 6,         67
+            8,         67
+           39,         67
+           34,     40, 70
+         6:57,         29
+         8: 9,        110
+           29,         27
+        11: 9,         14
+           21-24,      58
+        12: 4,         68
+            6,          6
+        20:21,         56
+           25,        124
+           27,        124
+           29,          9
+        21: 3,         37
+           10,         22
+           12,         101
+
+
+        =Acts=
+         1: 3,         67
+            4,     61, 97
+            8,     28, 60
+         2: 1,         61
+            4,         61
+           41,         47
+         4:10,         64
+           13,     79, 99
+         6: 5,         20
+         8:21,         64
+        19:38,         94
+        11:26,        123
+        13: 2,         64
+           47,         60
+        14:8-10,       57
+        17: 6,    63, 119
+        20:19,         82
+           24,        119
+           28,         90
+        27:23-25,      42
+
+
+        =Romans=
+         5: 3,         46
+         6: 4,         15
+         7:11,         75
+         8:28,     11, 31
+        13:11,         89
+        15:13,         90
+
+
+        =I. Corinthians=
+         1: 7,         30
+           28,         95
+         3:10,         69
+         7:32,         87
+        10:12,         76
+        11: 1,         82
+        13:13,        124
+        15:58,         46
+
+
+        =II. Corinthians=
+        1:21,       116
+          22,       116
+        13:5,       114
+           17,       65
+
+
+        =Galatians=
+         1: 4,       55
+         2:20,  96, 103,
+                    115
+         3:27,       58
+         6: 2,   33, 39
+            7,       25
+            9,       88
+           14,      127
+
+
+        =Ephesians=
+         1:13,         21
+           17,        109
+           18,        109
+         2:10,     78, 84
+           12,        120
+           21,         16
+         4:15,        113
+          5:8,      7, 77
+           15,         32
+
+
+        =Philippians=
+         1:21,         27
+         2:12      39, 41,
+                       73
+           13,     39, 41,
+                       73
+         3:13,         24
+           14,         24
+         4: 6,         42
+           12,         48
+           13,     55, 63
+           19,          8
+
+
+        =Colossians=
+         1:27,         96
+         3: 2,     46, 78
+            3,         75
+           11,         16
+           15,         87
+           16,        118
+           17,         54
+           24,         87
+         4: 2,     16, 76,
+                      126
+
+
+        =I. Thessalonians=
+         5: 6,         66
+            8,        103
+           19,         27
+           24,        118
+
+
+        =I. Timothy=
+         1:15,         73
+           17,         73
+
+
+        =II. Timothy=
+         1:12,         61
+         2: 3,         62
+           12,     53, 86
+           15,         60
+
+
+        =Hebrews=
+         4: 9,         13
+         6:12,        125
+           19,        128
+         7:25,        127
+        10: 5,         27
+           19,         41
+           22,         41
+           32,    23, 118
+        11: 7,         83
+            8,         22
+        12: 1,         79
+            2,         79
+            2,         14
+            6,    47, 107,
+                      117
+        13: 5,        118
+
+
+        =James=
+         1: 2,          8
+            4,         72
+           23,        125
+           25,        125
+         4: 4,        127
+           14,   123, 125
+
+
+        =I. Peter=
+         1:16,         96
+           21,        121
+           23,         86
+         2: 5,         20
+           21,         81
+         5: 5,        111
+
+
+        =II. Peter=
+         1: 5,         70
+           21,        121
+         3:18,     44, 74
+
+
+        =I. John=
+         1: 7,         48
+            9,         26
+         2: 6,         18
+           15,     17, 87
+         3: 2,         91
+         4:14,         88
+           16,     61, 98
+           18,         42
+         5: 4,         97
+
+
+        =Jude=
+           21,         28
+
+
+        =Revelation=
+         1:10,       117
+           11,       117
+           17,        66
+         2:10,       105
+         3:19,        20
+         4: 8,        30
+         7: 9,        34
+        22:12,         5
+           14,       109
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JANUARY]
+
+
+=January 1st.=
+
+     _Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself . . .
+     to me in the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2._
+
+My Father, I am coming. Nothing on the mean plain shall keep me away
+from the holy heights. Help me to climb fast, and keep Thou my foot,
+lest it fall upon the hard rock! At Thy bidding I come, so Thou wilt not
+mock my heart. Bring with Thee honey from heaven, yea, milk and wine,
+and oil for my soul's good, and stay the sun in his course, or the time
+will be too short in which to look upon Thy face, and to hear Thy gentle
+voice.
+
+Morning on the mount! It will make me strong and glad all the rest of
+the day so well begun.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=January 2nd.=
+
+      _My reward is with me. Rev. xxii. 12._
+
+We are to be rewarded, not only for work done, but for burdens borne,
+and I am not sure but that the brightest rewards will be for those who
+have borne burdens without murmuring. On that day He will take the lily,
+that has been growing so long among thorns, and lift it up to be the
+glory and wonder of all the universe; and the fragrance of that lily
+will draw forth ineffable praises from all the hosts of heaven.--_Andrew
+Bonar._
+
+
+=January 3rd.=
+
+      _Where art thou? Gen. iii. 9._
+
+Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do
+His own blessed work in His own way? Oh, let me say to thee this
+morning, "The Lord hath need of thee." It may seem to be only a little
+thing He has for you to do, but it is an important one. He has "need of
+thee." Turn not thy back upon Him; put not thyself out of the way of
+being employed by Him; do not begin by laying down laws for thyself as
+to what thou wilt do and what thou wilt not do; but cry out from the
+very depth of thy heart, "Here am I, send me,"--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=January 4th.=
+
+      _Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the
+      Lord delivereth him out of them all. Psa. xxxiv. 19._
+
+All the afflictions of the righteous open out into something glorious.
+The prisoner is not merely delivered, but he finds an angel waiting for
+him at the door. And with every deliverance comes a specific blessing.
+One angel is named faith; another, love; another, joy; another,
+longsuffering; another, gentleness; another, goodness; another,
+meekness; another, temperance; another, peace. Each of these graces
+says, "We have come out of great tribulation."--_G. Bowen._
+
+
+=January 5th.=
+
+      _The Lord is my . . . song. Psa. cxviii. 14._
+
+Let us think of God Himself becoming our song. This is the fulness and
+perfection of knowing God: so to know Him that He Himself becomes our
+delight; so to know Him that praise is sweetest, and fullest, and
+freshest, and gladdest, when we sing of Him. He who has learned this
+blessed secret carries the golden key of heaven--nay, he hath fetched
+heaven down to earth, and need not envy the angels now.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=January 6th.=
+
+      _Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of
+      the Lord. Ex. xiv. 13._
+
+Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound
+difficulty--leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape;
+contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had
+it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You
+may be thus involved at this very hour. It does seem perplexing and very
+serious to the last degree; but it is perfectly right. The issue will
+more than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for
+the display of His almighty grace and power. He will not only deliver
+you, but in doing so He will give you a lesson that you will never
+forget; and to which, in many a psalm and song in after days, you will
+revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just
+as He has.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=January 7th.=
+
+      _Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
+      light. Eph. v. 8._
+
+The influence we exert in the world is created by our relationship to
+Jesus Christ; and our relationship to Jesus Christ is revealed by our
+influence.--_Selected._
+
+
+=January 8th.=
+
+      _Take good heed therefore unto your souls. Josh.
+      xxiii. 11._ (_Margin._)
+
+Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz
+and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till
+taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies
+buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated
+unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a
+divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian
+is, so to speak, the circulating medium of Christ, the coin of the realm
+by whom the great transactions of mercy and grace to a lost world are
+carried on. As the currency stands for the gold, so does the Christian
+stand for Christ, representing His good and acceptable will.--_A. J.
+Gordon._
+
+
+=January 9th.=
+
+      _He that is faithful in that which is least, is
+      faithful also in much. Luke xvi. 10._
+
+The least action of life can be as surely done from the loftiest motive
+as the highest and noblest. Faithfulness measures acts as God measures
+them. True conscientiousness deals with our duties as God deals with
+them. Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong
+is wrong, whatever sized type they be printed in. "Large" and "small"
+are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. It knows only two
+words--right and wrong.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=January 10th.=
+
+      _My God shall supply all your need according to His
+      riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phil. iv. 19._
+
+What a source--"God"! What a standard--"His riches in glory"! What a
+channel--"Christ Jesus"! It is your sweet privilege to place _all your
+need_ over against _His riches_, and lose sight of the former in the
+presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you,
+in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless
+simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to look to a
+creature-stream, or lean on a creature-prop.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=January 11th.=
+
+      _Count it all joy when ye fall into divers
+      temptations. James i. 2._
+
+We cannot be losers by trusting God, for He is honored by faith, and
+most honored when faith discerns His love and truth behind a thick cloud
+of His ways and providence. Happy those who are thus tried! Let us only
+be clear of unbelief and a guilty conscience. We shall hide ourselves in
+the rock and pavilion of the Lord, sheltered beneath the wings of
+everlasting love till all calamities be overpast.--_Selected._
+
+
+=January 12th.=
+
+      _Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
+      believed. John xx. 29._
+
+The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the unseen. . . . No
+doubt, in Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen; but so is that
+of yonder tower that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over
+which it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the rolling
+billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable, lies the solid
+rock on which it stands secure; and when the hurricane roars above, and
+breakers roar below, I could go calmly to sleep in that lone sea tower.
+Founded on a rock, and safer than the proudest palace that stands on the
+sandy, surf-beaten shore, it cannot be moved. Still less the Rock of
+Ages! Who trusts in that is fit for death, prepared for judgment, ready
+for the last day's sounding trumpet, since, "The Lord redeemeth the soul
+of His servants, and none of them that trust in Him shall be
+desolate."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=January 13th.=
+
+      _Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much
+      fruit. John xv. 8._
+
+What a possibility, what an inspiration, that we can enhance the glory
+of "our Father"! Our hearts leap at the thought.
+
+How can this be done? By bearing "leaves,"--a _profession_ of love for
+Him? No. By bearing _some_ fruit? No. "That ye bear _much_ fruit." In
+the abundance of the yield is the joy, the glory of the husbandman. We
+should, therefore, aim to be extraordinary, "hundred-fold" Christians,
+satisfied with none but the largest yield. Our lives should be packed
+with good deeds. Then at harvest time we can say, "Father, I have
+glorified Thee on the earth!"--_W. Jennings._
+
+
+=January 14th.=
+
+      _Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy
+      name for ever and ever. Psa. cxlv. 2._
+
+There is a very beautiful device by which the Japanese are accustomed to
+express their wishes for their friends. It is the figure of a drum in
+which the birds have built their nest. The story told of it is that once
+there lived a good king, so anxiously concerned for the welfare of his
+people that at the palace gate he set a drum, and whoever had any wrong
+to be redressed or any want, should beat the drum, and at once, by day
+or night, the king would grant the suppliant an audience and relief. But
+throughout the land there reigned such prosperity and contentment that
+none needed to appeal for anything, and the birds built their nests
+within it and filled it with the music of their song.
+
+Such gracious access is granted to us even by the King of Heaven, and
+day and night His ready hearing and His help are within the reach of all
+that come to Him; but of all men most blessed are they who have found on
+earth a blessedness in which all want is forgotten, and trust rests so
+assured of safety in the Father's care that prayer gives place to
+ceaseless praise. They _rejoice in the Lord alway_.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=January 15th.=
+
+      _They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
+      run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not
+      faint.--Isa. xl. 31._
+
+This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being--to be able to _walk_ with
+God! Flight belongs to the young soul; it is the _romance_ of religion.
+To run without weariness belongs to the _lofty_ soul; it is the _beauty_
+of religion. But to walk and not faint belongs to the _perfect_ soul; it
+is the _power_ of religion.
+
+Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of men? Canst
+thou touch the vile and polluted ones of earth and retain thy garments
+pure? Canst thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself
+undefiled? _Then_ thou hast surpassed the flight of the eagle!--_George
+Matheson._
+
+
+=January 16th.=
+
+      _And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty
+      nights. Ex. xxiv. 18._
+
+The life of fellowship with God cannot be built up in a day. It begins
+with the habitual reference of all to Him, hour by hour, as Moses did in
+Egypt. But it moves on to more and longer periods of communion; and it
+finds its consummation and bliss in days and nights of intercession and
+waiting and holy intercourse.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=January 17th.=
+
+      _Elisha said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he
+      may see. 2 Kings vi. 17._
+
+This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another,
+"Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as
+well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots,
+waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are
+thus opened, we shall see in all the events of life, whether great or
+small, whether joyful or sad, a "chariot" for our souls. Everything that
+comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on
+the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a Juggernaut car to crush
+us into misery or despair if we so consider them. It lies with each of
+us to choose which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what these
+events are, but upon how we take them. If we lie down under them, and
+let them roll over us and crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if
+we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us
+triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of
+God.--_Smith._
+
+
+=January 18th.=
+
+      _All things work together for good to them that love
+      God. Rom. viii. 28._
+
+In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for the
+believer's good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them, AND ONE
+BESIDE.--_George Mueller._
+
+
+=January 19th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron. Ex. xxviii.
+      2._
+
+Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness?
+We have garments of praise; we are clothed with the Lord Jesus. And have
+we no ornaments? The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in the
+sight of God, of great price. And have we no golden bells? We have the
+golden bells of holy actions. Our words are bells, our actions are
+bells, our purposes are bells. Whenever we move, our motion is thus
+understood to be a motion towards holy places, holy deeds, holy
+character.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=January 20th.=
+
+      _My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in
+      the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and
+      will look up. Psa v. 3._
+
+The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with
+prayer. It is one end of the thread on which the day's actions are
+strung, and should be well knotted with devotion. If we felt more the
+majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings. He who rushes
+from his bed to his business and waiteth not to worship is as foolish as
+though he had not put on his clothes, or cleansed his face, and as
+unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor. Be it ours
+to bathe in the softly flowing river of communion with God, before the
+heat of the wilderness and the burden of the way begin to oppress
+us.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=January 21st.=
+
+      _Show me Thy ways, O Lord; teach me Thy paths. Psa.
+      xxv. 4._
+
+There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which
+alone God can accompany him.--_Denham Smith._
+
+
+=January 22nd.=
+
+      _There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
+      God. Heb. iv. 9._
+
+How sweet the music of this first heavenly chime floating across the
+waters of death from the towers of the New Jerusalem. Pilgrim, faint
+under thy long and arduous pilgrimage, hear it! It is REST. Soldier,
+carrying still upon thee blood and dust of battle, hear it! It is REST.
+Voyager, tossed on the waves of sin and sorrow, driven hither and
+thither on the world's heaving ocean of vicissitude, hear it! The haven
+is in sight; the very waves that are breaking on thee seem to
+murmur--"_So He giveth His beloved_ REST." It is the long-drawn sigh of
+existence at last answered. The toil and travail of earth's protracted
+week is at an end. The calm of its unbroken Sabbath is begun. Man, weary
+man, has found at last the long-sought-for _rest_ in the bosom of his
+God!--_Macduff._
+
+
+=January 23rd.=
+
+      _Under His shadow. Song of Sol. ii. 3._
+
+Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four pictures suggested by
+that: under the shadow of a rock in a weary plain; under the shadow of a
+tree; closer still, under the shadow of His wing; nearest and closest,
+in the shadow of His hand. Surely that hand must be the pierced hand,
+that may oftentimes press us sorely, and yet evermore encircling,
+upholding and shadowing!
+
+
+=January 24th.=
+
+      _He made as though He would have gone further. Luke
+      xxiv. 28._
+
+Is not God always acting thus? He comes to us by His Holy Spirit as He
+did to these two disciples. He speaks to us through the preaching of the
+Gospel, through the Word of God, through the various means of grace and
+the providential circumstances of life; and having thus spoken, He makes
+as though He would go further. If the ear be opened to His voice and
+the heart to His Spirit, the prayer will then go up, "Lord, abide with
+me." But if that voice makes no impression, then He passes on, as He has
+done thousands of times, leaving the heart at each time harder than
+before, and the ear more closed to the Spirit's call.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=January 25th.=
+
+      _My God shall be my strength. Isa. xlix. 5._
+
+Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for
+tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then
+the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle.
+Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which
+has come in you by the grace of God.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=January 26th.=
+
+      _Despising the shame. Heb. xii. 2._
+
+And how is that to be done? In two ways. Go up the mountain, and the
+things in the plain will look very small; the higher you rise the more
+insignificant they will seem. Hold fellowship with God, and the
+threatening foes here will seem very, very unformidable. Another way is,
+pull up the curtain and gaze on what is behind it. The low foot-hills
+that lie at the base of some Alpine country may look high when seen from
+the plain, as long as the snowy summits are wrapped in mist; but when a
+little puff of wind comes and clears away the fog from the lofty peaks,
+nobody looks at the little green hills in front. So the world's
+hindrances and the world's difficulties and cares look very lofty till
+the cloud lifts. But when we see the great white summits, everything
+lower does not seem so very high after all. Look to Jesus, and that will
+dwarf the difficulties.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=January 27th.=
+
+      _Are there not twelve hours in the day? John xi. 9._
+
+The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in heaven, is a proof
+that some work awaits him.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=January 28th.=
+
+      _Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. Matt. xxvi. 39._
+
+There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will
+of God.--_Faber._
+
+
+=January 29th.=
+
+      _The living God. Dan. vi. 20._
+
+How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is
+just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it
+is written "_the living God_"; but in our daily life there is scarcely
+anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is
+THE LIVING GOD; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand
+years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love
+towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that He will do
+for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago,
+simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how
+therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never
+lose sight of the fact that He _is_ still and ever _will be_ THE LIVING
+GOD!--_George Mueller._
+
+
+=January 30th.=
+
+      _Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into
+      death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
+      by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
+      walk in newness of life. Rom. vi. 4._
+
+That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is
+our privilege to lead; for God never gives us a call without its being a
+privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher without
+stretching out to us His hand to lift us up. Come up higher and higher
+into the realities and glories of the resurrection life, knowing that
+your life is hid with Christ in God. Shake yourself loose of every
+incumbrance, turn your back on every defilement, give yourself over
+like clay to the hands of the potter, that He may stamp upon you the
+fulness of His own resurrection glory, that you, beholding as in a
+mirror the glory of the Lord, may be changed from glory to glory as by
+the Spirit of the Lord.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=January 31st.=
+
+      _Christ is all, and in all. Col. iii. 11._
+
+        The _service_ of Christ is the _business_ of my life.
+        The _will_ of Christ is the _law_ of my life.
+        The _presence_ of Christ is the _joy_ of my life.
+        The _glory_ of Christ is the _crown_ of my life.--_Selected._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+=February 1st.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast
+thou no mercy to ask of God? Then may the Lord's mercy show thee thy
+misery. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of
+the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of
+the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=February 2nd.=
+
+      _In whom all the building, fitly framed together,
+      groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. Eph. ii. 21._
+
+The life-tabernacle is a wondrous building; there is room for workers of
+all kinds in the uprearing of its mysterious and glorious walls. If we
+cannot do the greatest work, we may do the least. Our heaven will come
+out of the realization of the fact that it was God's tabernacle we were
+building, and under God's blessing that we were working.--_Joseph
+Parker._
+
+
+=February 3rd.=
+
+      _Love not the world. 1 John ii. 15._
+
+Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of Him who gave His
+Son to die for it. Love it with the love of Him who shed His blood for
+it. Love it with the love of angels, who rejoice in its conversion. Love
+it to do it good, giving your tears to its sufferings, your pity to its
+sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your prayers to its miseries, and to
+its fields of charity, and philanthropy, and Christian piety, your
+powers and hours of labor. You cannot live without affecting it, or
+being affected by it. You will make the world better, or it will make
+you worse.
+
+God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live in the world as to
+live above it, and look beyond it; and so to love it that when you leave
+it, you may leave it better than you found it.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=February 4th.=
+
+      _Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of
+      every living thing. Psa. cxlv. 16._
+
+Desire, it is a dainty word! It were much that He should satisfy the
+_need_, the _want_; but He goeth far beyond that. Pity is moved to meet
+our need; duty may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the
+_desire_ implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and gracious knowledge
+of us, an eagerness of blessing. God is never satisfied until He has
+satisfied our desires.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=February 5th.=
+
+      _Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the
+      house of the Lord. . . . The Lord that made heaven and
+      earth bless thee out of Zion. Psa. cxxxiv. 1, 3._
+
+If I would know the love of my friend, I must see what it can do in the
+winter. So with the divine love. It is very easy for me to worship in
+the summer sunshine, when the melodies of life are in the air and the
+fruits of life are on the tree. But let the song of the bird cease, and
+the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing? Will
+I stand in God's house by night? Will I love Him in His own night? Will
+I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane? Will I help to bear
+His cross up the Via Dolorosa? My love has come to Him in His
+humiliation. My faith has found Him in His lowliness. My heart has
+recognized His majesty through His mean disguise, and I know at last
+that I desire not the gift, but the Giver. When I can stand in His house
+by night, I have accepted Him for Himself alone.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=February 6th.=
+
+      _He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so
+      to walk even as He walked. 1 John ii. 6._
+
+The preaching that this world needs most is the _sermons in shoes_ that
+are walking with Jesus Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=February 7th.=
+
+      _Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.
+      Hosea vi. 3._
+
+The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and
+bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it
+opens out upon the plain where God's throne is. Our life is a following
+on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which
+we are called to pass, but afterwards we see that they afforded us some
+new knowledge of our Lord. . . . We have not to wait for some brighter
+opportunity; but by improvement of the present are to build for
+ourselves a bridge to that future.--_G Bowen._
+
+
+=February 8th.=
+
+      _Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
+      and from thy father's house. Gen. xii. 1._
+
+      _Abraham . . . was gathered to his people. Gen. xxv. 8._
+
+After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted over a great
+archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing between us;
+but the time comes when, if our hearts are set upon that great Lord
+whose presence makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all the
+isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent . . . If we cultivate
+that sense of detachment from the present and of having our true
+affinities in the unseen, if we dwell here as strangers because our
+citizenship is in heaven, then death will not drag us away from our
+associates nor hunt us into a lonely land, but will bring us where
+closer bonds shall knit the "sweet societies" together, and the sheep
+shall couch close by one another because all gathered round the one
+Shepherd. Then many a tie shall be re-woven, and the solitary wanderer
+meet again the dear ones whom he had "loved long since and lost
+awhile."--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=February 9th.=
+
+      _Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious
+      unto you. Isa. xxx. 18._
+
+This is God's way. In the darkest hours of the night His tread draws
+near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel
+comes to Peter's cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the
+royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the threatened race.
+
+Ah, soul, it may have come to the worst with thee ere thou art
+delivered; but thou wilt be! God may keep thee waiting, but He will ever
+be mindful of His covenant, and will appear to fulfil His inviolable
+word.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=February 10th.=
+
+      _He loveth our nation and he hath built us a
+      synagogue. Luke vii. 5._
+
+Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may
+be seldom read. _Carve your names on human hearts_; they alone are
+immortal!--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=February 11th.=
+
+      _As many as I love I . . . chasten. Rev. iii. 19._
+
+I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its
+cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear
+blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless
+here on earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a shadow of
+His brightness whose name is Love.--_Dean Alford._
+
+
+=February 12th.=
+
+      _What means these stones? Josh. iv. 21._
+
+      _Ye also as living stones. 1 Pet. ii. 5. (R. V.)_
+
+There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and
+conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, "What
+does this mean?". . . . Is there anything in your character, words, and
+habits of life so different from the world around you that men are
+involuntarily compelled to ask themselves or others, "What does this
+mean?" Not that there is to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for
+the sake of being peculiar; that were merely to copy the pharisaism of
+ancient days. . . . Oh, that we might realize that this is the purpose
+for which God sends us into the world, as He sent His only begotten
+Son!--_S. A. Blackwood._
+
+
+=February 13th.=
+
+     _All . . . saw his face as it had been the face of an
+     angel Acts vi. 15._
+
+The face is made every day by its morning prayer, and by its morning
+look out of windows which open upon heaven.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=February 14th.=
+
+      _At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the
+      tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they
+      journeyed. Num. ix. 23._
+
+This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If an Israelite, in the
+desert, had taken it into his head to make some movement independent of
+Jehovah; if he took it upon him to move when the crowd was at rest, or
+to halt while the crowd was moving, we can easily see what the result
+would have been. And so it will ever be with us. If we move when we
+ought to rest, or rest when we ought to move, we shall not have the
+divine presence with us.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=February 15th.=
+
+      _In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed
+      with that holy Spirit of promise. Eph. i. 13._
+
+The Lord puts a seal upon His own, that everybody may know them. The
+sealing in your case is the Spirit producing in you likeness to the
+Lord. The holier you become, the seal is the more distinct and plain,
+the more evident to every passer-by, for then will men take knowledge of
+you that you have been with Jesus.--_Andrew Bonar._
+
+
+=February 16th.=
+
+      _Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1._
+
+The only preparation for the morrow is the right use of to-day. The
+stone in the hands of the builder must be put in its place and fitted to
+receive another. The morrow comes for naught, if to-day is not heeded.
+Neglect not the call that comes to thee this day, for such neglect is
+nothing else than boasting thyself of to-morrow.--_G. Bowen._
+
+
+=February 17th.=
+
+      _I will help thee, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 14._
+
+O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the
+omnipotence of the united Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than
+exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more
+power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring hither
+thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it. Haste, gather up
+thy wants, and bring them here--thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs.
+Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire
+beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might. The eternal God is thine
+helper!--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=February 18th.=
+
+      _To every man his work. Mark xiii. 34._
+
+He does the most for God's great world who does the best in his own
+little world.--_Selected._
+
+
+=February 19th.=
+
+      _Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. John xxi.
+      10._
+
+Why was this? Oh, the Lord wants us to minister to Him as well as to
+receive from Him, and our service finds its true end when it becomes
+food for our dear Lord. He was pleased to feed on their fish while they
+were feeding on His. It was the double banquet of which He speaks in the
+tender message of revelation, "I will sup with him, and he with
+Me."--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=February 20th.=
+
+      _By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a
+      place which he should after receive for an
+      inheritance, obeyed. Heb. xi. 8._
+
+Whither he went, he knew not; it was enough for him to know that he went
+with God. He leant not so much upon the promises as upon the Promiser.
+He looked not on the difficulties of his lot, but on the King, eternal,
+immortal, invisible, the only wise God, who had deigned to appoint his
+course, and would certainly vindicate Himself. O glorious faith! This is
+thy work, these are thy possibilities: contentment to sail with sealed
+orders, because of unwavering confidence in the love and wisdom of the
+Lord High Admiral: willinghood to rise up, leave all, and follow Christ,
+because of the glad assurance that earth's best cannot bear comparison
+with heaven's least.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=February 21st.=
+
+      _The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions
+      are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3._
+
+God does not _measure_ what we bring to Him. He _weighs_ it.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=February 22nd.=
+
+      _After ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of
+      afflictions. Heb. x. 32._
+
+Our boldness for God _before the world_ must always be the result of
+individual dealing with God _in secret_. Our victories over self, and
+sin, and the world, are always first fought where no eye sees but
+God's. . . . If we have not these _secret_ conflicts, well may we not
+have any _open_ ones. The _outward_ absence of conflict betrays the
+_inward_ sleep of the soul.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=February 23d.=
+
+      _Philip findeth Nathaniel and saith unto him, We have
+      found Him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets
+      did write. . . . Come and see. John i. 45, 46._
+
+The next thing to knowing that "we have found Him" is to find someone
+else, and say, "Come and see."--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=February 24th.=
+
+      _The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest
+      the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh
+      and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of
+      the Spirit. John iii. 8._
+
+We know that the wind listeth to blow where there is a vacuum. If you
+find a tremendous rush of wind, you know that somewhere there is an
+empty space. I am perfectly sure about this fact: if we could expel all
+pride, vanity, self-righteousness, self-seeking, desire for applause,
+honor, and promotion--if by some divine power we should be utterly
+emptied of all that, the Spirit would come as a rushing mighty wind to
+fill us.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=February 25th.=
+
+      _Thy gentleness hath made me great. 2 Sam. xxii. 36._
+
+The gentleness of Christ is the comeliest ornament that a Christian can
+wear.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=February 26th.=
+
+      _Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
+      Gen. xxxii. 1._
+
+It is in the path where God has bade us walk that we shall find the
+angels around us. We may meet them, indeed, on paths of our own
+choosing, but it will be the sort of angel that Balaam met, with a sword
+in his hand, mighty and beautiful, but wrathful too; and we had better
+not front him! But the friendly helpers, the emissaries of God's love,
+the apostles of His grace, do not haunt the roads that we make for
+ourselves.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=February 27th.=
+
+      _I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
+      unto the Father but by me. John xiv. 6._
+
+Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road
+thither is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way. We do not want
+to see far ahead--only far enough to discern Him and trace His
+footsteps. . . . They who follow Christ, even through darkness, will
+surely reach the Father.--_Henry Van Dyke._
+
+
+=February 28th.=
+
+      _Forgetting those things which are behind . . . I press
+      toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
+      God in Christ Jesus. Phil. iii. 13, 14._
+
+It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be
+done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining
+that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have.
+What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement--God's
+doing, though it may be man's misdoing. Life is a series of mistakes,
+and he is not the best Christian who makes the fewest false steps. He is
+the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of
+mistakes.--_F. W. Robertson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MARCH]
+
+
+=March 1st.=
+
+      _Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself unto
+      me in the top of the mount. Ex. xxxiv. 2._
+
+The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. This very word
+_morning_ is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let me crush them, and drink
+the sacred wine.
+
+In the morning! Then God means me to be at my best in strength and hope.
+I have not to climb in my weakness. In the night I have buried
+yesterday's fatigue, and in the morning I take a new lease of energy.
+
+Sweet morning! There is hope in its music. Blessed is the day whose
+morning is sanctified! Successful is the day whose first victory was won
+in prayer! Holy is the day whose dawn finds thee on the top of the
+mount! Health is established in the morning. Wealth is won in the
+morning. The light is brightest in the morning. "Wake, psaltery and
+harp; I myself will awake early."--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=March 2nd.=
+
+      _Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
+      Gal. vi. 7._
+
+The most common actions of life, its every day and hour, are invested
+with the highest grandeur, when we think how they extend their issues
+into eternity. Our hands are now sowing seeds for that great harvest. We
+shall meet again all we are doing and have done. The graves shall give
+up their dead, and from the tombs of oblivion the past shall give up all
+that it holds in keeping, to bear true witness for or against
+us.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=March 3rd.=
+
+      _There are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way
+      of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-barnea. Deut. i. 2._
+
+Eleven days, and yet it took them forty years! How was this? Alas! we
+need not travel far for the answer. It is only too like ourselves. How
+slowly we get over the ground! What windings and turnings! How often we
+have to go back and travel over the same ground, again and again. We are
+slow travelers because we are slow learners. Our God is a faithful and
+wise, as well as a gracious and patient Teacher. He will not permit us
+to pass cursorily over our lessons. Sometimes, perhaps, we think we have
+mastered a lesson and we attempt to move on to another, but our wise
+Teacher knows better, and He sees the need of deeper ploughing. He will
+not have us mere theorists or smatterers; He will keep us, if need be,
+year after year at our scales until we learn to sing.--=C. H. M.=
+
+
+=March 4th.=
+
+      _If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
+      forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
+      unrighteousness. 1 John i. 9._
+
+The same moment which brings the consciousness of sin ought to bring
+also the confession of it and the consciousness of forgiveness.--_Smith._
+
+
+=March 5th.=
+
+      _As captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
+      Josh. v. 14._
+
+Surely Israel might now face the foe with unwavering confidence, and
+sing of victory even before the battle was gained. And so may the
+Christian. It is to no conflict of uncertain issue that he advances; the
+result of the battle is not doubtful. The struggle may be severe, the
+warfare long; he may sometimes, like the pilgrim, be beaten to the
+ground, and well-nigh lose his sword; but "though cast down" he is "not
+destroyed." The Captain of salvation is on his side, and in the midst of
+sharpest conflict he can say, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the
+victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."--_S. A. Blackwood._
+
+
+=March 6th.=
+
+      _To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. i.
+      21._
+
+Live in Christ, and you are in the suburbs of heaven. There is but a
+thin wall between you and the land of praises. You are within one hour's
+sailing of the shore of the new Canaan.--_William Rutherford._
+
+
+=March 7th.=
+
+      _He that sent me is with me; the Father hath not left
+      me alone, for I do always those things that please
+      Him. John viii. 29._
+
+He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties
+of everyday life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 8th.=
+
+      _Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thess. v. 19._
+
+In order that you may not quench the Spirit, you must make it a constant
+study to know what is the mind of the Spirit. You must discriminate with
+the utmost care between His suggestions and the suggestions of your own
+deceitful heart. You will keep in constant recollection what are the
+offices of the Spirit as described by Christ in the Gospel of John. You
+will be on your guard against impulsive movements, inconsiderate acts,
+rash words. You will abide in prayer. Search the Word. Confess Christ on
+all possible occasions. Seek the society of His people. Shrink from
+conformity to the world, its vain fashions, unmeaning etiquette. Be
+scrupulous in your reading. "What I say unto you, I say unto all,
+watch!" "Have oil in your lamps." "Quench not the Spirit."--_Bowen._
+
+
+=March 9th.=
+
+     _When He cometh into the world, He saith, . . . A body
+     hast Thou prepared me. Heb. x. 5._
+
+This word of Christ must be adopted by each of His followers. Nothing
+will help us to live in this world and keep ourselves unspotted but the
+Spirit that was in Christ, that looked upon His body as prepared by God
+for His service; that looks upon our body as prepared by Him too, that
+we might offer it to Him. Like Christ, we too have a body in which the
+Holy Spirit dwells. Like Christ, we too must yield our body, with every
+member, every power, every action, to fulfil His will, to be offered up
+to Him, to glorify Him. Like Christ, we must prove in our body that we
+are holy to the Lord.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=March 10th.=
+
+      _Full of [satisfied with] years. Gen. xxv. 8._
+
+Scaffoldings are for buildings, and the moments and days and years of
+our earthly lives are scaffolding. What are you building inside it? What
+kind of a structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is knocked
+away? Days and years are ours, that they may give us what eternity
+cannot take away--a character built upon the love of God in Christ, and
+moulded into His likeness.
+
+Has your life helped you to do that? If so, you have got the best out of
+it, and your life is completed, whatever may be the number of its days.
+Quality, not quantity, is the thing that determines the perfectness of a
+life. Has your life this completeness?--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=March 11th.=
+
+      _Keep yourselves in the love of God. Jude 21._
+
+Fruit ripened in the sun is sweetest.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 12th.=
+
+      _Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is
+      come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto Me. Acts
+      i. 8._
+
+Look at it! Think of it! A hundred and twenty men and women having no
+patronage, no promise of any earthly favor, no endowment, no wealth--a
+company of men and women having to get their living by common daily
+toil, and busied with all the household duties of daily life--and yet
+_they_ are to begin the conquests of Christianity! To them is entrusted
+a work which is to turn the world upside down. None so exalted but the
+influence of this lowly company shall reach to them, until the throne of
+the Caesars is claimed for Christ. None so far off but the power of this
+little band gathered in an upper room shall extend to them until the
+whole world is knit into a brotherhood! Not a force is there on the
+earth, either of men or devils, but they shall overcome it, until every
+knee shall bow to their Master, and every tongue shall confess that He
+is Lord.
+
+A thing impossible, absurd, look at it as you will, until you admit
+this--_they are to be filled with the Holy Ghost_. Then difficulties
+melt into the empty air. Then there is no limit to their hopes, for
+there is no limit to their power. Their strength is not only "as the
+strength of ten," it is as the strength of the Almighty.
+
+This is Christ's idea of Christianity; the idea not of man--it is
+infinitely too sublime--the idea of God!--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=March 13th.=
+
+      _He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same
+      bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do
+      nothing. John xv. 5._
+
+Too much taken up with our work, we may forget our Master; it is
+possible to have the hand full, and the heart empty. Taken up with our
+Master we cannot forget our work; if the heart is filled with His love,
+how can the hands not be active in His service?--_Adolphe Monod._
+
+
+=March 14th.=
+
+      _He that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. John vi.
+      57._
+
+To feed on Christ is to get His strength into us to be our strength. You
+feed on the corn field, and the strength of the corn field comes into
+you, and is your strength. You feed on Christ, and then go and live
+your life; and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the
+poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battles, and that wins the
+crown.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=Match 15th.=
+
+      _I sought Him, but I found Him not. Song of Sol. iii.
+      1._
+
+Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the
+most likely place to find Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by
+restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find Him. Did you
+lose Christ by sin? You will find Him in no other way than by the giving
+up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in
+which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the
+Scriptures? You must find Him in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb,
+"Look for a thing where you dropped it; it is there." So look for Christ
+where you lost Him, for He has not gone away.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=March 16th.=
+
+      _Come behind in no gift. 1 Cor. i. 7._
+
+The Scripture gives four names to Christians, taken from the four
+cardinal graces so essential to man's salvation: _Saints_ for their
+holiness, _believers_ for their faith, _brethren_ for their love,
+_disciples_ for their knowledge.--_Thomas Fuller._
+
+
+=March 17th.=
+
+      _They rest not day and night. Rev. iv. 8._
+
+O blessed rest! When we rest not day and night, saying, "Holy, holy,
+holy, Lord God Almighty!"--when we shall rest from sin, but not from
+worship; from suffering and sorrow, but not from joy! O blessed day,
+when I shall rest with God; when I shall rest in knowing, loving,
+rejoicing, and praising; when my perfect soul and body shall together
+perfectly enjoy the most perfect God; when God, who is love itself,
+shall perfectly love me, and rest in His love to me, and I shall rest
+in my love to Him; when He shall rejoice over me with joy, and joy over
+me with singing, and I shall rejoice in Him!--=Baxter.=
+
+
+=March 18th.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
+      strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
+      they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk,
+      and not faint. Isa. xl. 31._
+
+The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself as to how it
+is to cross rivers.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 19th.=
+
+      _Their eyes were holden. Luke xxiv. 16._
+
+      _Their eyes were opened. Luke xxiv. 31._
+
+There is much precious significance in this. The Lord is often present
+in our lives in things that we do not dream possess any significance. We
+are asking God about something which needs His mighty working, and the
+very instrument by which He is to work is by our side, perhaps for weeks
+and months and years all unrecognized, until suddenly, some day it grows
+luminous and glorious with the very presence of the Lord, and becomes
+the mighty instrument of His victorious working. He loves to show His
+hand through the unexpected. Often he keeps us from seeing His way until
+just before He opens it, and then, immediately that it is unfolded, we
+find that He was walking by our side in the very thing, long before we
+even suspected its meaning.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=March 20th.=
+
+      _All things work together for good to them that love
+      God. Rom. viii. 28._
+
+If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our
+circumstances.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 21st.=
+
+      _He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His
+      name's sake. Ps. xxiii. 3._
+
+He always has a purpose in His leading. He knows where the bits of green
+pasture are, and He would lead His flock to these. The way may be rough,
+but it is the right way to the pasture. "Paths of righteousness" may not
+be straight paths; but they are paths that lead somewhere--to the right
+place. Many desert paths are illusive. They start out clear and plain,
+but soon they are lost in the sands. They go nowhere. But the paths of
+righteousness have a goal to which they unerringly lead.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=March 22nd.=
+
+      _And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the
+      hand of him whom thou wilt send. Ex. iv. 13._
+
+It was a very grudging assent. It was as much as to say, "Since Thou art
+determined to send me and I must undertake the mission, then let it be
+so; but I would that it might have been another, and I go because I am
+compelled." So often do we shrink back from the sacrifice or obligation
+to which God calls us, that we think we are going to our doom. We seek
+every reason for evading the divine will, little realizing that He is
+forcing us out from our quiet homes into a career which includes, among
+other things, the song of victory on the banks of the Red Sea; the two
+lonely sojourns for forty days in converse with God; the shining face;
+the vision of glory; the burial by the hand of Michael; and the supreme
+honor of standing beside the Lord on the Transfiguration mount.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=March 23rd.=
+
+      _See then that ye walk circumspectly. Eph. v. 15._
+
+There is no such thing as negative influence. We are all positive in the
+place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse.--_T. DeWitt
+Talmage._
+
+
+=March 24th.=
+
+      _She took for him an ark of bulrushes . . . and she laid
+      it in the flags by the river's brink. Ex. ii. 3._
+
+The mother of Moses laid the ark in the flags by the river's brink. Ay,
+but before doing so, she laid it on the heart of God! She could not have
+laid it so courageously upon the Nile, if she had not first devoutly
+laid it upon the care and love of God.
+
+We are often surprised at the outward calmness of men who are called
+upon to do unpleasant and most trying deeds; but could we have seen them
+in secret, we should have known the moral preparation which they
+underwent before coming out to be seen by men. Be right in the
+sanctuary, if you would be right in the market-place. Be steadfast in
+prayer, if you would be calm in affliction. Start your race from the
+throne of God itself, if you would run well, and win the prize.--_Joseph
+Parker._
+
+
+=March 25th.=
+
+      _Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law
+      of Christ. Gal. vi. 2._
+
+By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 26th.=
+
+      _I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.
+      John xvii. 4._
+
+Was the work of the Master indeed done? Was not its heaviest task yet to
+come? He had not yet met the dread hour of death. Why did He say that
+His work was done? It was because He knew that, when the will is given,
+the battle is ended. He was only in the shadows of the garden; but to
+conquer these shadows was already to conquer all. He who has willed to
+die has already triumphed over death. All that remains to Him is but the
+outer husk, the shell.
+
+The cup which our Father giveth us to drink is a cup for the will. It is
+easy for the lips to drain it when once the heart has accepted it. Not
+on the heights of Calvary, but in the shadows of Gethsemane is the cup
+presented; the act is easy after the choice. The real battle-field is
+in the silence of the spirit. Conquer there, and thou art
+crowned.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=March 27th.=
+
+      _A great multitude . . . stood before the throne. Rev.
+      vii. 9._
+
+A _station on the feet_ in front of the throne in _heaven_ is the effect
+of being often _on the knees_ before the throne on _earth_.--_Selected._
+
+
+=March 28th.=
+
+      _God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided
+      the light from the darkness. Gen. i. 4._
+
+No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a _division is
+necessary_. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them,
+let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with
+deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must
+be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord's work, leaving the works of
+darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever.
+
+We should by our distinct separation from the world divide the light
+from the darkness. In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in
+association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and
+maintain the great distinction which the Lord made upon the world's
+first day.
+
+O Lord Jesus, be Thou our light throughout the whole of this day, for
+Thy light is the light of men.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=March 29th.=
+
+      _The path of the just is as the shining light, that
+      shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Prov. iv.
+      18._
+
+Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? Am I
+progressing in it? Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light,
+earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? Let all God's dealings
+serve to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may please Him to
+send, be as the moving pillar-cloud of old, beckoning me to move my tent
+onward, saying, "Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest." Let me
+be often standing now on faith's lofty eminences, looking for "the day
+of God"--the rising sun which is to set no more in weeping clouds.
+Wondrous progression! How will all earth's learning, its boasted
+acquirements and eagle-eyed philosophy sink into the lispings of very
+infancy in comparison with this manhood of knowledge! Heaven will be the
+true "_Excelsior_," its song, "_a song of degrees_," Jesus leading His
+people from height to height of glory, and saying, as He said to
+Nathaniel, "_Thou shalt see GREATER things than these!_"--_Macduff._
+
+
+=March 30th.=
+
+      _Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the
+      vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. Song of
+      Sol. ii. 15. (R. V.)_
+
+How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises with the world;
+disobedience to the still, small voice in little things; little
+indulgences of the flesh to the neglect of duty; little strokes of
+policy; doing evil in little things that good may come; and the beauty,
+and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed!--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=March 31st.=
+
+      _The children of your Father which is in heaven. Matt.
+      v. 45._
+
+The best name by which we can think of God is Father. It is a loving,
+deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of father is in its
+nature full of inborn sweetness and comfort. Therefore, also, we must
+confess ourselves children of God, for by this name we deeply touch our
+God, since there is not a sweeter sound to the father than the voice of
+the child.--_Martin Luther._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: APRIL]
+
+
+
+=April 1st.=
+
+      _In the morning came the word of the Lord unto me.
+      Ezek. xii. 8._
+
+A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the
+best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief
+season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and
+seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our
+religion into the business of the day. It brings joy and peace within
+the heart. And as we place all our concerns in the care and keeping of
+the Lord, faithfully striving to do His will, we have a joyful trust
+that however dark or discouraging events may appear, our Father's hand
+is guiding everything, and will give the wisest direction to all our
+toils.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 2nd.=
+
+      _The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the
+      ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
+      life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7._
+
+And so this soul of mine is a compound of two worlds--dust and deity! It
+touches the boundary line of two hemispheres. It is allied on one side
+to the divine; on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is
+from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is started from the
+dust of the ground, but it is finished in the breath of God.
+
+My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin? Art thou remembering
+thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty? Thou hast a duty to
+thy God, for His breath is in thee; thou hast a duty to the earth, for
+out of it wast thou taken.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=April 3rd.=
+
+      _Always rejoicing. 2 Cor. vi. 10._
+
+No Christian can ever know what is meant by those two little words,
+"always rejoicing," but the Christian who takes up his cross and follows
+Jesus.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=April 4th.=
+
+      _All the land which thou seest, to thee will I give
+      it, and to thy seed forever. Gen. xiii. 15._
+
+God's promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another,
+fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said, "I will
+show thee the land." At Bethel, "This is the land." Here, "I will give
+thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand." And
+we shall find even these eclipsed.
+
+It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving anything till
+we have dared to act--that He may test us. Not giving everything at
+first--that He may not overwhelm us. And always keeping in hand an
+infinite reserve of blessing. Oh, the unexplored remainders of God!
+Whoever saw His last star?--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=April 5th.=
+
+      _That night they caught nothing. John xxi. 3._
+
+God may let the sinful world succeed in their forbidden schemes, but,
+blessed be His name, He does not allow His chosen ones to prosper in the
+path which leads them out of His holy will! He has a storm to send after
+every Jonah, and an empty net for every unbelieving and inconsistent
+Simon.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=April 6th.=
+
+      _They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own
+      vineyard have I not kept. Song of Sol. i. 6._
+
+Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of
+this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service
+_to the neglect of personal communion_; but such neglect will not only
+lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the
+highest service.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=April 7th.=
+
+      _We came unto the land whither thou sentest us . . . we
+      saw the children of Anak there. Num. xiii. 27, 28._
+
+It is when we are in the way of _duty_ that we find _giants_. It was
+when Israel was going _forward_ that the giants appeared. When they
+turned back into the wilderness they found none.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 8th.=
+
+      _Each one resembled the children of a king. Judg.
+      viii. 18._
+
+Frances Ridley Havergal says: "If the King is indeed near of kin to us,
+the royal likeness will be recognizable."
+
+
+=April 9th.=
+
+      _He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He
+      leadeth me beside the still waters. Psa. xxiii. 2._
+
+This suggests the rest into which our Good Shepherd leads His flock.
+Life is not all toil. God gives us many quiet resting-places in our
+pilgrim way.
+
+Night is one of these, when, after the day's toil, struggle, and
+exhaustion, we are led aside, and the curtains are drawn to shut out the
+noise, and He giveth His beloved sleep, in sleep giving the wonderful
+blessings of renewal. The Sabbath is another of these quiet
+resting-places. God would have us drop our worldly tasks, and have a day
+for the refreshing of both body and soul. . . . Friendship's trysts are
+also quiet resting-places, where heart may commune with heart, where
+Jesus comes, too, unseen, and gives His blessing. All ordinances of
+Christian worship--seasons of prayer and devotion, hours of communion
+with God--are quiet resting-places.
+
+Far more than we are apt to realize do we need these silent times in our
+busy life, needing them all the more the busier the life may be.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=April 10th.=
+
+      _A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30._
+
+One staff aids a traveler, but a bundle of staves is a heavy
+burden.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=April 11th.=
+
+      _Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law
+      of Christ. Gal. vi. 2._
+
+However perplexed you may at any hour become about some question of
+truth, one refuge and resource is always at hand: you can do something
+for some one beside yourself. At the times when you cannot see God,
+there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to _show_ God: for
+it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine
+reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not. Let this
+thought, then, stay with you: there may be times when you cannot _find_
+help, but there is no time when you cannot _give_ help.--_George
+Merriam._
+
+
+=April 12th.=
+
+      _Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:
+      for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
+      do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13._
+
+It is not your business and mine to study whether we shall get to
+heaven, or even to study whether we shall be good men; it is our
+business to study how we shall come into the midst of the purposes of
+God and have the unspeakable privilege in these few years of doing
+something of His work.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=April 13th.=
+
+      _God . . . hath shined in our hearts, to give the light
+      of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
+      Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. iv. 6._
+
+Christian! rest not until thou knowest the full, the unbroken shining of
+God in thy heart. To this end, yield to every stirring of it that shows
+thee some unconquered and perhaps unconquerable evil. Just bring it to
+the light; let the light shine upon it, and shine it out. Wait upon the
+Lord more than watchers for the morning, for "the path of the just is as
+the shining light, shining more and more unto the perfect day." Count
+upon it that God wants to fill thee with the light of His glory: wait on
+Him more than watchers for the morning. "Wait, I say, on the
+Lord."--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=April 14th.=
+
+      _My soul, wait thou only upon God. Psa. lxii. 5._
+
+Did it ever occur to you that if you do not hear God's answer to prayer,
+it may be not because He is dumb, but because you are deaf; not because
+He has no answer to give, but because you have not been listening for
+it? We are so busy with our service, so busy with our work, and
+sometimes so busy with our praying, that it does not occur to us to stop
+our own talking and listen if God has some answer to give us with "the
+still small voice"; to be passive, to be quiet, to do nothing, say
+nothing, in some true sense think nothing; simply to be receptive and
+waiting for the voice. "Wait thou only upon God," says the Psalmist; and
+again "Wait on the Lord."--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 15th.=
+
+      _Could ye not watch with me one hour? Matt. xxvi. 40._
+
+        Oh! ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power,
+        Heed ye this gentle whisper, "Could ye not watch one hour?"
+        To fruitfulness and blessing, there is no "royal road";
+        The power for holy service is intercourse with God.
+                                                    --_Selected._
+
+
+=April 16th.=
+
+      _My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John
+      iv. 34._
+
+Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=April 17th.=
+
+      _It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to
+      do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 13._
+
+Full salvation is to realize that everything we see in Christ, our
+Example, may be ours, not by imitation, but by reproduction.--_Selected._
+
+
+=April 18th.=
+
+      _Lo, I am with you all the days. Matt, xxviii. 20. (R.
+      V., margin.)_
+
+"ALL THE DAYS"--in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days,
+when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness
+and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when
+the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song.
+That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His
+saints. Lover and friend may stand afar, but He walks with them through
+the fires; He fords with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to
+face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must always add His
+resources to our own when making our calculations.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=April 19th.=
+
+      _Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the
+      blood of Jesus . . . let us draw near with a true heart.
+      Heb. x. 19, 22._
+
+Oh, the glory of the message! For fifteen centuries Israel had a
+sanctuary with a Holiest of All, into which, under pain of death, no one
+might enter. Its one witness was: Man cannot dwell in God's presence;
+cannot abide in His fellowship. And now how changed is all! As then the
+warning sounded: "No admittance! enter not!" so now the call goes forth:
+"Enter in! the veil is rent; the Holiest is open; God waits to welcome
+you to His bosom; henceforth you are to live with Him." This is the
+message. Child! thy Father longs for thee to enter, to dwell, and to go
+out no more forever.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=April 20th.=
+
+      _There stood by me this night the angel of God . . .
+      saying, Fear not, Paul. . . . God hath given thee all
+      them that sail with thee. Wherefore . . . be of good
+      cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it
+      was told me. Acts xxvii. 23, 24, 25._
+
+An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not yet
+performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready
+money.--_Matthew Henry._
+
+
+=April 21st.=
+
+      _In everything by prayer and supplication, with
+      thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto
+      God. Phil, iv. 6._
+
+The natural temptation with every difficulty is to plan for it, to put
+it out of the way yourself; but stop short with all your planning, your
+thinking, your worry, and talk to Him! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
+and He shall sustain thee." You may not always be able to do this in a
+moment or two. Then keep on with supplication until you know He has it,
+and prayer becomes praise. Rest, trust, and wait, and see how He does
+that which you wanted to do, and had so much care about. "Stand still
+and see the salvation of the Lord."--_A. E. Funk._
+
+
+=April 22nd.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall . . . mount up with
+      wings as eagles. Isa. xl. 31._
+
+All creatures that have wings can escape from every snare that is set
+for them, if only they will fly high enough; and the soul that uses its
+wings can always find a sure "way to escape" from all that can hurt or
+trouble it.--_Smith._
+
+
+=April 23rd.=
+
+      _Perfect love casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18._
+
+Fear and love rise up in antagonism to each other as motives in life,
+like those two mountains from which respectively the blessings and
+curses of the old law were pronounced--the Mount of Cursing all barren,
+stony, without verdure and without water; the Mount of Blessing green
+and bright with many a flower, and blessed with many a trickling rill.
+Fear is barren. Love is fruitful. The one is a slave, and its work is
+little worth. The other is free, and its deeds are great and precious.
+From the blasted summit of the mountain which gendereth to bondage may
+be heard the words of the law; but the power to keep all these laws must
+be sought on the sunny hill where liberty dwells in love and gives
+energy to obedience. Therefore, if you would use in your own life the
+highest power that God has given us for our growth in grace, draw your
+arguments, not from fear, but from love.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=April 24th.=
+
+      _The love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor. v. 14._
+
+The love of Christ is too large for any heart to hold it. It will
+overflow into others' hearts: it will give itself out, give itself away,
+for the enriching of other lives. The heart of Christ is a costly thing
+for any one to have. It will lead those who have it where it led Him. If
+it cost Him the cross, it will cost them no less.--_J. M. Campbell._
+
+
+=April 25th.=
+
+      _I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying
+      unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. Isa. xli. 13._
+
+Don't try to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the
+_holding_, and you do the _trusting_.--_H. W. Webb Peploe._
+
+
+=April 26th.=
+
+      _Consider how great things He hath done for you. 1
+      Sam. xii. 24._
+
+Look back on all the way the Lord your God has led you. Do you not see
+it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise? Call to mind the
+needed succor sent at the critical moment; the right way chosen for you,
+in stead of the wrong way you had chosen for yourself; the hurtful
+thing to which your heart so fondly clung, removed out of your path; the
+breathing-time granted, which your tried and struggling spirit just at
+the moment needed. Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it
+not? Has not Infinite Love encircled every event with its everlasting
+arms, and gilded every cloud with its merciful lining? Oh, retrace your
+steps, and mark His footprint in each one! Thank Him for them all, and
+learn the needed lesson of leaning more simply on Jesus.--_F.
+Whitfield._
+
+
+=April 27th.=
+
+     _He . . . said . . . I . . . hid thy talent in the
+     earth. . . . His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou
+     wicked and slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 24-26._
+
+Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not
+do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.--_Monod._
+
+
+=April 28th.=
+
+      _To Him be glory both now and forever. 2 Pet. iii.
+      18._
+
+Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints
+above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him _now_?
+The apostle's words are, "To Him be glory both _now_ and forever."--_C.
+H. Spurgeon._
+
+
+=April 29th.=
+
+      _Thou shall know that I am the Lord: for they shall
+      not be ashamed that wait for me. Isa. xlix. 23._
+
+J. Hudson Taylor says: "Quiet waiting before God could save from many a
+mistake and from many a sorrow."
+
+
+=April 30th.=
+
+      _Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. Matt. xv. 28._
+
+Oh, the victories of prayer! They are the mountain-tops of the Bible.
+They take us back to the plains of Mamre, to the fords of Peniel, to
+the prison of Joseph, to the triumphs of Moses, to the transcendent
+victories of Joshua, to the deliverances of David, to the miracles of
+Elijah and Elisha, to the whole story of the Master's life, to the
+secret of Pentecost, to the key-note of Paul's unparalleled ministry, to
+the lives of saints and the deaths of martyrs, to all that is most
+sacred and sweet in the history of the Church and the experience of the
+children of God. And when, for us, the last conflict shall have passed,
+and the footstool of prayer shall have given place to the harp of
+praise, the spots of time that shall be gilded with the most celestial
+and eternal radiance, shall be those, often linked with deepest sorrow
+and darkest night, over which we have the inscription, "Jehovah-Shammah:
+The Lord was there!"--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: MAY]
+
+
+=May 1st.=
+
+      _Thou art my God: early will I seek Thee. Psa. lxiii.
+      1._
+
+In a world where there is so much to ruffle the spirit's plumes, how
+needful that entering into the secret of God's pavilion, which will
+alone bring it back to composure and peace! In a world where there is so
+much to sadden and depress, how blessed the communion with Him in whom
+is the one true source and fountain of all true gladness and abiding
+joy! In a world where so much is ever seeking to unhallow our spirits,
+to render them common and profane, how high the privilege of
+consecrating them anew in prayer to holiness and to God.--_Archbishop
+Trench._
+
+
+=May 2nd.=
+
+      _In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
+      John i. 4. Ye are the light of the world. Matt. v.
+      14._
+
+In the light we can walk and work. We walk in the light and become
+entirely children of light. We let our light, the light of God, shine,
+so that men may see our good works, and glorify our Father in heaven.
+Gently, silently, lovingly, unceasingly, we give ourselves to transmit
+the light and the love God so unceasingly shines into us. Our one work
+is to wait, and admit, and then transmit the light of God in
+Christ.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=May 3d.=
+
+      _Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the
+      work of the Lord. 1 Cor. xv. 58._
+
+Activity in doing good is one recipe for being cheerful Christians; it
+is like exercise to the body, and it keeps the soul in health.--_Bishop
+Ryle._
+
+
+=May 4th.=
+
+      _Looking up to heaven He sighed. Mark vii. 34._
+
+Too often we sigh and look within; Jesus sighed and looked without. We
+sigh, and look down; Jesus sighed, and looked up. We sigh, and look to
+earth; Jesus sighed, and looked to heaven. We sigh, and look to man;
+Jesus sighed, and looked to God.--_Stork._
+
+
+=May 5th.=
+
+      _We glory in tribulations. Rom. v. 3._
+
+Have you ever thought that some day you will never have anything to try
+you or anybody to vex you again?--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=May 6th.=
+
+      _Set your affection on things above, not on things on
+      the earth. Col. iii. 2._
+
+He who has his affections set on things above is like one who hangs on
+by the skies; and, having a secure hold of these, could say, though he
+saw the world roll away from beneath his feet, "My heart is fixed; my
+heart is fixed; O Lord, I will sing and give praise!"--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=May 7th.=
+
+      _The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
+      Luke xxiv. 34._
+
+      _They . . . gladly received (Peter's) word; and the
+      same day there were added unto them about three
+      thousand souls. Acts ii. 41._
+
+Before the Lord can use us in His service we must have close individual
+dealing with Himself. He always will have to do in _secret_ with that
+soul that He intends to use in blessing others.
+
+Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you? Then you must go to
+Jesus Himself for your message. What you say _for_ Jesus must be got
+_from_ Jesus.
+
+Oh, how much breath falls powerless on every side because it has not
+been inhaled in the sanctuary! We want more secret dealing with the
+living God. We run without being sent: we speak before God has spoken to
+us: no wonder we so often fail. Oh, what secret prayer and what
+heart-searching discipline the heart needs before God can use it!--_F.
+Whitfield._
+
+
+=May 8th.=
+
+      _The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul.
+      Prov. xiii. 25._
+
+Christ must satisfy; then, if we are not satisfied, it must be because
+we are not feeding on Him wholly and only. The fault is not in the
+provision which is made.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=May 9th.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+It has been well said that "earthly cares are a heavenly discipline,"
+but they are even something better than discipline; they are God's
+chariots, sent to take the soul to its high places of triumph. In the
+Canticles we are told of "a chariot paved with love." We cannot always
+see the love lining to our own particular chariot--it often looks very
+unlovely; but every chariot sent by God must necessarily be paved with
+love, since God is love. It is His love, indeed, that sends the chariot.
+
+Look upon your chastenings, then, no matter how grievous they may be for
+the present, as God's chariots, sent to carry your souls into the "high
+places" of spiritual achievement and uplifting, and you will find that
+they are, after all, "paved with love."--_Smith._
+
+
+=May 10th.=
+
+      _The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from
+      all sin. 1 John i. 7._
+
+Learn a lesson from the eye of the miner, who all day long is working
+amid the flying coal dust. When he emerges in the light of day his face
+may be grimy enough; but his eyes are clear and lustrous, because the
+fountain of tears in the lachrymal gland is ever pouring its gentle
+tides over the eye, cleansing away each speck of dust as soon as it
+alights.
+
+Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a
+world as this? And this is what our blessed Lord is prepared to do for
+us by His cleansing blood, if only we will trust Him.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=May 11th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever He sayeth unto you, do it. John ii. 5._
+
+Florence Nightingale said: "If I could give you information of my life,
+it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by
+God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has
+done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done
+all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I
+have never refused God anything."
+
+
+=May 12th.=
+
+      _I know how to abound. Phil. iv. 12._
+
+It is a dangerous thing to be prosperous. The crucible of adversity is
+a less severe trial to the Christian than the refining-pot of
+prosperity. It needs more than human skill to carry the brimming cup of
+mortal joy with a steady hand; yet Paul had learned that skill, for he
+declares, "In all things I am instructed both to be full and to be
+hungry." When we have much of God's providential mercies it often
+happens that we have but little of God's grace; satisfied with earth, we
+are content to do without heaven. Rest assured, it is harder to know how
+to be full than it is to know how to be hungry, so desperate is the
+tendency of human nature to pride and forgetfulness of God. Take care
+that you ask in your prayers that God would teach you "how to be
+full."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=May 13th.=
+
+      _Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he
+      that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11._
+
+. . . If you ask the way to the crown--'tis by the cross; to the
+mountain--'tis by the valley; to exaltation 'tis he that humbleth
+himself.--_J. H. Evans._
+
+
+=May 14th.=
+
+      _For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
+      might be sanctified through the truth. John xvii. 19._
+
+Do you remember, when Jesus was sitting with His disciples at the last
+supper, how He lifted up His voice and prayed, and in the midst of His
+prayer there came these wondrous words: "For their sakes I sanctify
+myself, that they also might be sanctified"? Is there anything in all
+the teachings that man has had from the lips of God that is nobler, that
+is more far-reaching than that--to be my best not simply for my own
+sake, but for the sake of the world? You can help your fellow-men--you
+must help your fellow-men; but the only way you can help them is by
+being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to
+be.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=May 15th.=
+
+      _He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
+      and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a
+      city. Prov. xvi. 32._
+
+More dear in the sight of God and His angels than any other conquest is
+the conquest of self, which each man, with the help of heaven, can
+secure for himself.--_Dean Stanley._
+
+
+=May 16th.=
+
+      _For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me
+      my petition which I asked of Him: therefore also I
+      have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he
+      shall be lent to the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 27, 28._
+
+God sometimes bestows gifts just that love may have something to
+renounce. The things that He puts into our hands are possibly put there
+that we may have the opportunity of showing what is in our heart. Oh,
+that there were in us a fervor of love that would lead us to examine
+everything that belongs to us, to ascertain how it might be made a means
+of showing our affection to Christ!--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=May 17th.=
+
+      _Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
+      righteousness, and all these things shall be added
+      unto you. Matt. vi. 33._
+
+We need have only one care, that we put the first thing
+first--faithfulness to God. Then all else we need for both worlds will
+be supplied. God will never fail us; but we forget, sometimes, in our
+rejoicing over such an assurance, that we must fulfil our part if we
+would claim the divine promise.
+
+It will not always be easy. To-morrow it may mean a distasteful task, a
+disagreeable duty, a costly sacrifice for one who does not seem worthy.
+Life is full of sore testings of our willingness to follow the Good
+Shepherd. We have not the slightest right to claim this assurance unless
+we have taken Christ as the guide of our life.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=May 18th.=
+
+      _His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psa.
+      xxxiv. 1._
+
+Let not thy praises be transient--a fit of music, and then the
+instrument hung by the wall till another gaudy day of some remarkable
+providence makes thee take it down. God comes not guestwise to His
+saints' house, but to dwell with them. David took this up for a life
+work: "As long as I live, I will praise thee."--_Gurnall._
+
+
+=May 19th.=
+
+      _I am not able to bear all this people alone, because
+      it is too heavy for me. Num. xi. 14._
+
+It is most needful for all servants of Christ to remember that whenever
+the Lord places a man in a position of responsibility, He will both fit
+him for it and maintain him in it.
+
+It is, of course, another thing altogether if a man will rush unsent
+into any field of work, or any post of difficulty or danger. In such a
+case we may assuredly look for a thorough breakdown, sooner or later.
+But when God calls a man to a certain position, He will endow him with
+the needed grace to occupy it.
+
+This holds good in every case. We can never fail if we only cling to the
+living God. We can never run dry if we are drawing from the fountain.
+Our tiny springs will soon dry up; but our Lord Jesus Christ declares,
+"He that believeth in Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly
+shall flow rivers of living water."--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=May 20th.=
+
+      _Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone: because I am
+      a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
+      people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the
+      King, the Lord of hosts. Isa. vi. 5._
+
+It is not the sight of our sinful heart that humbles us; it is a sight
+of Jesus Christ. I am undone because mine eyes have seen the
+King.--_Andrew A. Bonar._
+
+
+=May 21st.=
+
+      _While I was musing the fire burned. Psa. xxxix. 3._
+
+My soul, if thou wouldst muse more, the fire would burn more. Why dost
+thou not retire oftener with thyself? Thou wouldst be better fitted for
+the world if thou wert less worldly. If thou hadst more heavenly fire
+thou wouldst have more earthly power.
+
+Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go and warm thyself?
+Is there no holy of holies where thou canst catch a glow of impulse that
+will make thee strong? Is it not written of the Son of Man that "as He
+_prayed_ the fashion of His countenance was altered"? Yes; it was from
+His prayer that His transfigured glory came. It was from the glow of His
+heart that there issued the glow of His countenance. It was when He was
+musing that the fire kindled.
+
+O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified, beautified,
+transfigured to the eyes of men? Get thee up into the secret place of
+God's pavilion, where the fires of love are burning. Thy life shall
+shine gloriously to the dwellers on the plain. Thy prayers shall be
+luminous; they shall light thy face like the face of Moses when he wist
+not that it shone. Thy words shall be burning; they will kindle many a
+heart journeying on the road to Emmaus. Thy path shall be lambent; when
+thou hast prayed in Elijah's solitude thou shalt have Elijah's chariot
+of fire.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=May 22nd.=
+
+      _Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these
+      little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a
+      disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in nowise
+      lose his reward. Matt. x. 42._
+
+We are in danger of looking too far for opportunities of doing good and
+communicating. In reaching for rhododendrons we trample down the
+daisies.--_Selected._
+
+
+=May 23rd.=
+
+      _Hide thyself by the brook. 1 Kings xvii. 3._
+
+Not by the _river_, but by the _brook_. The river would always contain
+an abundant supply, but the brook might dry up at any moment.
+
+What does this teach us? God does not place His people in luxuriance
+here. The world's abundance might withdraw their affections from Him. He
+gives them not the river, but the brook. The brook may be running
+to-day, to-morrow it may be dried up.
+
+And wherefore does God act thus? To teach us that we are not to rest in
+His gifts and blessings, but in Himself. This is what our hearts are
+always doing--resting in the gift, instead of the Giver. Therefore God
+cannot trust us by the river, for it unconsciously takes up His place in
+the heart. It is said of Israel that when they were full they forgot
+God.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=May 24th.=
+
+      _His kingdom ruleth over all. Psa. ciii. 19._
+
+_His kingdom ruleth over all_--therefore thou canst find nothing which
+is not matter for praise, since there is nothing which is not the matter
+of thy Lord's gracious permission, or planning, or control. _Over
+all_--nowhere canst thou step outside His realm, nor in anything get
+beyond His care and government. _Over all_--therefore take all as from
+God; hold all as from God; and by thy gratitude give all back to God
+again, and thus complete the circle, making Him the Alpha and Omega, the
+Beginning and the Ending of all things.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=May 25th.=
+
+      _If we suffer we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim. ii.
+      12._
+
+The highest bidder for the crown of glory is the lowliest wearer of the
+cross of self-denial.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=May 26th.=
+
+      _Keep thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are
+      the issues of life. Prov. iv. 23._
+
+He who would keep his heart pure and holy, must plant a sentinel at
+every avenue by which sin may find access there, guarding against none
+more than the "little" sins, as they are called.
+
+The man of God has his _eyes_ to keep, and so Job said, "I have made a
+covenant with mine eyes"--his _tongue_, and hence the exhortation, "Keep
+thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile"--his _ears_, and
+hence the warning, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth
+to err"--his _feet_, and hence David says, "I have refrained my feet
+from every evil way, that I might keep Thy word." And since there is no
+gate of the five senses by which the enemy may not come in like a flood,
+unless the Spirit lift up a standard against him, we have need to guard
+every port, and write over every portal, "Here there entereth nothing to
+hurt or to defile."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=May 27th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever ye do, . . . do all in the name of the Lord
+      Jesus. Col. iii. 17._
+
+Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the
+Lord Jesus Christ, who dwells in thee; and do great things as if they
+were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.--_Pascal._
+
+
+=May 28th.=
+
+      _Him they compelled to bear His cross. Matt. xxvii.
+      32._
+
+There are many Christians of whom this is true. They are compelled to
+bear the cross, but how does it come? It comes by their running away
+from it. They make up their minds they won't have Christ's cross; and
+they find when the cross does come that it comes in a more terrible
+form, with a more crushing weight than ever it would have come had they
+only been content to submit themselves to the divine direction; for the
+cross has to come to all who are to be prepared for glory
+hereafter.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=May 29th.=
+
+      _Our Lord Jesus Christ . . . gave Himself for our sins
+      that He might deliver us from this present evil world.
+      Gal. i. 4._
+
+Attachment to Christ is the only secret of detachment from the
+world.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=May 30th.=
+
+      _Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on
+      an hill cannot be hid. Matt. v. 14._
+
+Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum, it
+beats no gong; and yet far over the waters its friendly spark is seen by
+the mariner. So let your actions shine out your religion. Let the main
+sermon of your life be illustrated by all your conduct.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=May 31st.=
+
+      _Without me ye can do nothing. John xv. 5._
+
+      _I can do all things, through Christ which
+      strengtheneth me. Phil. iv. 13._
+
+Apart from Him we can do nothing. Whilst we are abiding in Him nothing
+is impossible. The one purpose of our life should therefore be to remain
+in living and intense union with Christ, guarding against everything
+that would break it, employing every means of cementing and enlarging
+it. And just in proportion as we do so, we shall find His strength
+flowing into us for every possible emergency. We may not feel its
+presence; but we shall find it present whenever we begin to draw on it.
+There is no temptation which we cannot master; no privation which we
+cannot patiently bear; no difficulty with which we cannot cope; no work
+which we cannot perform; no confession or testimony which we cannot
+make, if only our souls are living in healthy union with Jesus Christ;
+for as our day or hour, so shall our strength be.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JUNE]
+
+
+=June 1st.=
+
+      _As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. John
+      xx. 21._
+
+We should never leave our room until we have seen the face of our dear
+Master, Christ, and have realized that we are being sent forth by Him to
+do His will, and to finish the work which He has given us to do. He who
+said to His immediate followers, "As my Father hath sent me, even so
+send I you," says as much to each one of us, as the dawn summons us to
+live another day. We should realize that we are as much sent forth by
+Him as the angels who "do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of
+His word." There is some plan for each day's work, which He will unfold
+to us, if only we will look up to Him to do so; some mission to fulfil;
+some ministry to perform; some lesson patiently to learn, that we may be
+able to "reach others also." As to our plans we need not be anxious;
+because He who sends us forth is responsible to make the plan, according
+to His infinite wisdom; and to reveal it to us, however dull and stupid
+our faculties may be. And as to our sufficiency, we are secure of having
+all needful grace; because He never sends us forth, except He first
+breathes on us and says, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." There is always a
+special endowment for special power.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=June 2nd.=
+
+      _A fountain . . . for sin and for uncleanness. Zech.
+      xiii. 1._
+
+You that have faith in the Fountain, _frequent it_. Beware of two errors
+which are very natural and very disastrous. Beware of thinking any sin
+too great for it; beware of thinking any sin too small. There is not a
+sin so little, but it may be the germ of everlasting perdition; there is
+not a sin so enormous, but a drop of atoning blood will wash it away as
+utterly as if it were drowned in the depths of the sea.--_James
+Hamilton._
+
+
+=June 3rd.=
+
+      _I am black . . . as the tents of Kedar. Song of Sol. i.
+      5._
+
+      _I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. Song
+      of Sol. vii. 10._
+
+Nothing humbles the soul like sacred and intimate communion with the
+Lord; yet there is a sweet joy in feeling that _He_ knows _all_, and,
+notwithstanding, loves us still.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=June 4th.=
+
+      _David enquired of the Lord. 2 Sam. v. 19._
+
+Christian, if thou wouldst know the path of duty, take God for thy
+compass; if thou wouldst steer thy ship through the dark billows, put
+the tiller into the hand of the Almighty. Many a rock might be escaped
+if we would let our Father take the helm; many a shoal or quicksand we
+might well avoid if we would leave it to His sovereign will to choose
+and to command. The Puritan said, "As sure as ever a Christian carves
+for himself he'll cut his own fingers." "I will instruct thee and teach
+thee in the way which thou shalt go," is God's promise to His people.
+Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him and say, "Lord, what wilt
+thou have me to do?" Leave not thy chamber this morning without
+_enquiring of the Lord_.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=June 5th.=
+
+      _A certain man . . . who never had walked . . . heard
+      Paul speak: who . . . perceiving that he had faith to
+      be healed, said . . . Stand upright on thy feet. And he
+      leaped and walked. Acts xiv. 8, 9, 10._
+
+Where true faith is, it will induce obedience and where it does induce
+obedience, it will always, in one form or another, bring a
+blessing.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=June 6th.=
+
+      _Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord . . . I know that
+      . . . whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it
+      thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise
+      again. Martha saith unto Him, I know that he shall
+      rise again in the resurrection at the last day. John
+      xi. 21, 22, 23, 24._
+
+Beware, in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by
+unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect
+unexpected things, _above all that_ we ask or think. Each time you
+intercede, be quiet first and worship God in His glory. Think of what He
+can do, of how He delights to hear Christ, of your place in Christ; and
+expect great things.--_Andrew Murray._
+
+
+=June 7th.=
+
+      _As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
+      put on Christ. Gal. iii. 27._
+
+Not simply the righteousness of our Savior, not simply the beauty of His
+holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment.
+The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a
+Christ-bearer but a Christ-wearer. We are so to enter into Him by
+communion, to be so endued with His presence, and embued with His Spirit
+that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments
+when they look upon our bodies.--=A. J. Gordon.=
+
+
+=June 8th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt never wash my feet. John xiii. 8._
+
+Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to
+bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine
+humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and
+will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed.
+The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fulness of God,
+knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride
+or for self.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=June 9th.=
+
+      _Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain
+      thee. Psa. lv. 22._
+
+He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself with an uneasy
+burden. The fear of what _may_ come, expectation of what _will_ come,
+desire of what will _not_ come, and the inability to redress all these,
+must needs bring him continual torment. _I_ will cast my cares upon
+_God_: He hath bidden me. They cannot hurt Him: He can redress
+them.--_Hall._
+
+
+=June 10th.=
+
+     _Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . Thou
+     wicked and slothful servant. Matt. xxv. 21, 26._
+
+God holds us responsible not for what we _have_, but for what we _might
+have_; not for what we _are_, but for what we _might_ be.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=June 11th.=
+
+      _Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship.
+      Matt. xiv. 22._
+
+Jesus _constrained_ them to go! One would think that if ever there was
+the certain promise of success in a mission, it was here. Surely, here,
+if anywhere, a triumphant issue might have been confidently predicted;
+and yet here, more than anywhere, there was seeming failure. He sent
+them out on a voyage, and they met such a storm as they had never yet
+experienced.
+
+Let me ponder this, for it has been so with me, too. I have sometimes
+felt myself impelled to act by an influence which seemed above
+me--constrained to put to sea. The belief that I was constrained gave me
+confidence, and I was sure of a calm voyage. But the result was outward
+failure. The calm became a storm; the sea raged, the winds roared, the
+ship tossed in the midst of the waves, and my enterprise was wrecked ere
+it could reach the land.
+
+Was, then, my divine command a delusion?
+
+Nay; nor yet was my mission a failure. He did send me on that voyage,
+but He did not send me for _my_ purpose. He had one end and I had
+another. My end was the outward calm; His was my meeting with the storm.
+My end was to gain the harbor of a material rest; His was to teach me
+there is a rest even on the open sea.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=June 12th.=
+
+      _Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman
+      that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
+      word of truth. 2 Tim. ii. 15._
+
+Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work.--_Charles Kingsley._
+
+
+=June 13th.=
+
+      _Come out from among them, and be ye separate. 2 Cor.
+      vi. 17._
+
+With all the world in his choice, God placed His ancient people in a
+very remarkable situation. On the north they were walled in by the snowy
+ranges of Lebanon; a barren desert formed their eastern boundary; far to
+the south stretched a sterile region, called the howling wilderness;
+while the sea--not then, as now, the highway of the nations,
+facilitating rather than impeding intercourse--lay on their west,
+breaking on a shore that had few harbors and no navigable rivers to
+invite the steps of commerce.
+
+May we not find a great truth in the very position in which God placed
+His chosen people? It certainly teaches us that to be holy, or
+sanctified, we must be a separate people--living in the world, but not
+of it--as oil, that may be mixed, but cannot be combined with
+water.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=June 14th.=
+
+      _I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
+      whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into
+      this land. Gen. xxviii. 15._
+
+"With thee," companionship; "Keep thee," guardianship; "Bring thee,"
+guidance.
+
+
+=June 15th.=
+
+      _I have set thee . . . that thou shouldst be for
+      salvation unto the ends of the earth. Acts xiii. 47._
+
+      _Ye shall be witnesses unto me . . . unto the uttermost
+      parts of the earth. Acts i. 8._
+
+Men are questioning now, as they never have questioned before, whether
+Christianity is, indeed, the true religion which is to be the salvation
+of the world. Christian men, it is for us to give our bit of answer to
+that question. It is for us, in whom the Christian church is at this
+moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that the
+Christian faith, the Christian manhood can do that for the world which
+the world needs.
+
+You ask, "What can I do?"
+
+You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish a life so faithful
+to every duty, so ready for every service, so determined not to commit
+every sin, that the great Christian church shall be the stronger for
+your living in it, and the problem of the world be answered, and a
+certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed, phase of our
+humanity as it sees that new revelation of what Christianity
+is.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=June 16th.=
+
+      _I know whom I have believed. 2 Tim. i. 12._
+
+Personal acquaintance with Christ is a living thing. Like a tree that
+uses every hour for growth, it thrives in sunshine, it is refreshed by
+rain--even the storm drives it to fasten its grip more firmly in the
+earth for its support. So, troubled heart, in all experience, say, "This
+comes that I may make closer acquaintance with my Lord."--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 17th.=
+
+      _Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4._
+
+      _When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were
+      all with one accord in one place . . . and they were
+      all filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts ii. 1, 4._
+
+Obedience to a divine prompting transforms it into a permanent
+acquisition.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=June 18th.=
+
+      _We have known and believed the love that God hath to
+      us. 1 John iv. 16._
+
+The secret of walking closely with Christ, and working successfully for
+Him, is to fully realize that we are His beloved. Let us but feel that
+He has set His heart upon us, that He is watching us from those heavens
+with tender interest, that He is working out the mystery of our lives
+with solicitude and fondness, that He is following us day by day as a
+mother follows her babe in his first attempt to walk alone, that He has
+set His love upon us, and, in spite of ourselves, is working out for us
+His highest will and blessing, as far as we will let Him, and then
+nothing can discourage us. Our hearts will glow with responsive love.
+Our faith will spring to meet His mighty promises, and our sacrifices
+shall become the very luxuries of love for one so dear. This was the
+secret of John's spirit. "We have known and believed the love that God
+hath to us." And the heart that has fully learned this has found the
+secret of unbounded faith and enthusiastic service.--_A. B. Simpson._
+
+
+=June 19th.=
+
+      _Endure . . . as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim.
+      ii. 3._
+
+Life is not victory, but battle. Be patient a little longer. By and by,
+each in his turn, we shall hear the sunset gun.--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 20th.=
+
+      _Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me,
+      cannot be my disciple. Luke xiv. 27._
+
+There is always the shadow of the cross resting upon the Christian's
+path. Is that a reason why you should avoid or not undertake the duty?
+Have you made up your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere
+else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the cross? Is that
+your religion? The sooner you change it, the better. The religion of the
+Lord Jesus Christ is the religion of the cross, and unless we take up
+our cross, we can never follow Him.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=June 21st.=
+
+      _These . . . have turned the world upside down. Acts
+      xvii. 6._
+
+The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the
+world next to the might of God.--_Pascal._
+
+
+=June 22nd.=
+
+      _What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know
+      hereafter. John xiii. 7._
+
+God keeps a school for His children here on earth and one of His best
+teachers is Disappointment. My friend, when you and I reach our Father's
+house, we shall look back and see that the sharp-voiced, rough; visaged
+teacher, Disappointment, was one of the best guides to train us for it.
+He gave us hard lessons; he often used the rod; he often led us into
+thorny paths; he sometimes stripped off a load of luxuries; but that
+only made us travel the freer and the faster on our heavenward way. He
+sometimes led us down into the valley of the death-shadow; but never did
+the promises read so sweetly as when spelled out by the eye of faith in
+that very valley. Nowhere did he lead us so often, or teach us such
+sacred lessons, as at the cross of Christ. Dear, old, rough-handed
+teacher! We will build a monument to thee yet, and crown it with
+garlands, and inscribe on it: _Blessed be the memory of
+Disappointment!_--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=June 23rd.=
+
+      _As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii.
+      25._
+
+      _I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
+      me. Phil. iv. 13._
+
+He will not impose upon you one needless burden. He will not exact more
+than He knows your strength will bear. He will ask no Peter to come to
+Him on the water, unless He impart at the same time strength and support
+on the unstable waves. He will not ask you to draw water if the well is
+too deep, or to withdraw the stone if too heavy. But neither at the
+same time will He admit as an impossibility that which, as a free and
+responsible agent, it is in your power to avert. He will not regard as
+your misfortune what is your crime.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=June 24th.=
+
+      _Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Acts
+      viii. 21._
+
+The worst of all mockeries is a religion that leaves the heart
+unchanged: a religion that has _everything_ but the love of Christ
+enshrined in the soul.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=June 25th.=
+
+      _The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
+      for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii.
+      2._
+
+We have such a nice little quiet, shady corner in the vineyard, down
+among the tender grapes, with such easy little weedings and waterings to
+attend to. And then the Master comes and draws us out into the thick of
+the work, and puts us in a part of the field where we never should have
+thought of going, and puts larger tools into our hands, that we may do
+more at a stroke. And we know we are not sufficient for these things,
+and the very tools seem too heavy for us, and the glare too dazzling and
+the vines too tall. Ah! but would we dally, go back? He would not be in
+the shady corner with us now; for when He put us forth He went before
+us, and it is only by closer following that we can abide with
+Him.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=June 26th.=
+
+      _Small things. Zech. iv. 10._
+
+It is the little words you speak, the little thoughts you think, the
+little things you do or leave undone, the little moments you waste or
+use wisely, the little temptations which you yield to or overcome--the
+little things of every day that are making or marring your future
+life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=June 27th.=
+
+      _Be perfect, be of good comfort. 2 Cor. xiii. 11._
+
+A glance at the words is enough to make us feel how contradictory they
+are. _Be perfect_--that is a word that strikes us with despair; at once
+we feel how far away we are from our own poor ideal, and alas! how much
+further from God's ideal concerning us. _Be of good comfort_--ah, that
+is very different! That seems to say, "Do not fret; do not fear. If you
+are not what you would be, you must be thankful for what you are."
+
+Now the question is this--How can these two be reconciled?
+
+It is only the religion of Jesus Christ that reconciles them. He stands
+in our midst, and with the right hand of His righteousness He pointeth
+us upward, and saith, "Be perfect." There is no resting-place short of
+that. Yet with the left hand of His love He doth encompass us, as He
+saith, "Soul, be of good comfort; for that is what I came to do for
+thee."--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=June 28th.=
+
+      _Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is
+      in heaven is perfect. Matt. v. 48._
+
+Seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit, let us aim at perfection. Let every
+day see some sin crucified, some battle fought, some good done, some
+victory won; let every fall be followed by a rise, and every step gained
+become, not a resting-place, but a new starting-point for further and
+higher progress.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=June 29th.=
+
+      _Sleep on now, and take your rest. Mark xiv. 41._
+
+Never did that sacred opportunity to watch with Christ return to His
+disciples. Lost then, it was lost forever. And now when Jesus is still
+beholding the travail of His soul in the redemption of the world, if you
+fail to be with Him watching for souls as they that must give account,
+remember that the opportunity will never return. "Watch, therefore,"
+says your Lord, "lest coming suddenly, He may find you sleeping."--_A.
+J. Gordon._
+
+
+=June 30th.=
+
+      _Let us not sleep, as do others. 1 Thess. v. 6._
+
+There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest,
+let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the
+ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the
+Celestial City, said to themselves:
+
+"To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse."
+
+Christians who isolate themselves and walk alone are very liable to grow
+drowsy. Hold Christian company, and you will be kept wakeful by it, and
+refreshed and encouraged to make quicker progress in the road to
+heaven.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JULY]
+
+
+=July 1st.=
+
+      _He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear
+      not. Rev. i. 17._
+
+One of Wellington's officers, when commanded to go on some perilous
+duty, lingered a moment as if afraid, and then said:
+
+"Let me have one clasp of your all-conquering hand before I go; and then
+I can do it."
+
+Seek the clasp of Christ's hand before every bit of work, every hard
+task, every battle, every good deed. Bend your head in the dewy
+freshness of every morning, ere you go forth to meet the day's duties
+and perils, and wait for the benediction of Christ, as He lays His hands
+upon you. They are hands of blessing. Their touch will inspire you for
+courage and strength and all beautiful and noble living.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=July 2nd.=
+
+      _Being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the
+      things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Acts i. 3._
+
+This lingering for forty days is the crowning proof of Christ's tender
+regard for His little flock. He who had laid down His life for them is
+loath to leave them. Though they had forsaken Him, and doubted Him, they
+had not wearied, much less had they worn out, His love. He stays to look
+again, and yet again, and yet again, upon them, as if turning back and
+lingering to bless them. It is all of a piece with His life of love.
+Everywhere He meets them without a touch of upbraiding, without
+recalling a single memory of all His bitter suffering, revealing Himself
+to the disciples with a tenderness and blessedness indescribably
+beautiful.
+
+How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene's broken heart? He must
+linger till poor Peter can venture near to have his forgiveness assured.
+He must stay to strengthen Thomas' faith. He must tarry with them till
+He has made them feel that He is just the same friendly, brotherly Jesus
+that He has ever been, caring for them in their work, watching them with
+a yearning pity, stooping to kindle a fire for their warmth, and to cook
+the fish for their meal, and then to bid them come and dine.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=July 3rd.=
+
+      _Jesus, . . . being wearied with His journey, sat thus
+      on the well. . . . (For His disciples were gone away unto
+      the city to buy meat.) . . . And many of the Samaritans
+      of that city believed on Him for the saying of the
+      woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I
+      did. John iv. 6, 8, 39._
+
+The bits of wayside work are very sweet. Perhaps the odd bits, when
+all is done, will really come to more than the seemingly greater
+pieces! . . . It is nice to know that the King's servants are always
+really on duty, even while some can only stand and wait.--_Frances
+Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=July 4th.=
+
+      _Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you . . .
+      let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
+      afraid. John xiv. 27._
+
+Dark hours come to us all; and if we have no clew to a peace that can
+pass unbroken through their murky gloom, we shall be in a state of
+continual dread. Any stone flung by a chance passer-by may break the
+crystal clearness of the Lake of Peace and send disturbing ripples
+across it, unless we have learnt to trust in the perpetual presence of
+Him who can make and keep a "great calm" within the soul. Only let
+nothing come to you which you shall not instantly hand over to Him--all
+petty worries, all crushing difficulties, all inability to believe.--_F.
+B. Meyer._
+
+
+=July 5th.=
+
+      _Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi. Gen. xxv. 11._
+
+Isaac dwelt there, and made the well of the living and all-seeing God
+his constant source of supply. The usual tenor of a man's life, the
+_dwelling_ of his soul, is the true test of his state. Let us learn to
+live in the presence of the living God. Let us pray the Holy Spirit that
+this day, and every other day, we may feel, "Thou God seest me." May the
+Lord Jehovah be as a well to us, delightful, comforting, unfailing,
+springing up unto eternal life. The bottle of the creature cracks and
+dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails. Happy is he who
+dwells at the well, and so has abundant and constant supplies near at
+hand! Glorious Lord, constrain us that we may never leave Thee, but
+dwell by the well of the living God!--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=July 6th.=
+
+      _Judas Iscariot . . . was a thief, and had the bag, and
+      bore what was put therein. John xii. 4, 6._
+
+      _Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8._
+
+Ah, but if we should go thoroughly into this matter, should we not
+probably find that many of us are guilty, in some modified and yet
+sufficiently alarming sense, of treachery to the poor? Are we not, some
+of us, sent to them with benefactions which never reach them, and are
+only unconscious of guilt because so long accustomed to look upon the
+goods as bestowed on us, whereas the light of God's word would plainly
+reveal upon those goods the names of the poor and needy?--_George
+Bowen._
+
+
+=July 7th.=
+
+      _Let every man take heed how he buildeth. 1 Cor. iii.
+      10._
+
+Our business is not to build quickly, but to build upon a right
+foundation, and in a right spirit. Life is more than a mere competition
+as between man and man; it is not who can be done first, but who can
+work best; it is not who can rise highest in the shortest time, but who
+is working most patiently and lovingly in accordance with the designs of
+God.--_Joseph Parker._
+
+
+=July 8th.=
+
+      _As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii.
+      25._
+
+No day without its duty; no duty without strength to perform
+it.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 9th.=
+
+      _Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
+      Gen. xxviii. 16._
+
+"Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it not." My soul, this is
+also thine experience! How often hast thou said in thy sorrow, "Verily
+thou art a God that hidest Thyself!" How often hast thou slept for very
+heaviness of heart, and desired not to wake again! And when thou didst
+wake again, lo, the darkness was all a dream! Thy vision of yesterday
+was a delusion. God had been with thee all the night with that radiance
+which has no need of the sun.
+
+O my soul, it is not only after the future thou must aspire; thou must
+aspire to see the glory of thy past. Thou must find the glory of that
+way by which thy God has led thee, and be able even of thy sorrow to
+say, "This was the gate of heaven!"--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=July 10th.=
+
+      _My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John
+      iv. 34._
+
+The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an
+unsurrendered will.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=July 11th.=
+
+      _Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. 2
+      Pet. i. 5._
+
+You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by
+gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others'
+faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and
+strong; honor that; rejoice in it, and, as you can, try to imitate it;
+and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time
+comes.--_John Ruskin._
+
+
+=July 12th.=
+
+      _Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon
+      my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song
+      of Sol. iv. 16._
+
+Sometimes God sends severe blasts of trial upon His children to develop
+their graces. Just as torches burn most brightly when swung violently to
+and fro; just as the juniper plant smells sweetest when flung into the
+flames; so the richest qualities of a Christian often come out under the
+north wind of suffering and adversity. Bruised hearts often emit the
+fragrance that God loveth to smell. Almost every true believer's
+experience contains the record of trials which were sent for the purpose
+of shaking the spice tree.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=July 13th.=
+
+      _Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon
+      my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Song
+      of Sol. iv. 16._
+
+There are two winds mentioned in this beautiful prayer. God may send
+either or both, as seemeth Him good. He may send the north wind of
+conviction, to bring us to repentance, or He may send the south wind of
+love, to melt us into gratitude and holy joy. If we often require the
+sharp blasts of trial to develop our graces, do we not also need the
+warm south breezes of His mercy? Do we not need the new sense of
+Christ's presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost? Do we
+not need to be melted, yes, to be overpowered by the love of
+Jesus?--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=July 14th.=
+
+      _Behold the man! John xix. 5._
+
+"Behold the man!" was Pilate's jeer. That is what all the ages have been
+doing since, and the vision has grown more and more glorious. As they
+have looked, the crown of thorns has become a crown of golden radiance,
+and the cast-off robe has glistened like the garments He wore on the
+night of the transfiguration. Martyrs have smiled in the flames at that
+vision. Sinners have turned at it to a new life. Little children have
+seen it, and have had awakened by it dim recollections of their
+heaven-home. Toward it the souls of men yearn ever.--_Robert E. Speer._
+
+
+=July 15th.=
+
+      _He (John) saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two
+      disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
+      John i. 36, 37._
+
+To be a Christian means to know the presence of a true personal Christ
+among us, and to follow.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=July 16th.=
+
+      _Ye shall not eat of it. Gen. iii. 3._
+
+The Sin of Paradise was eating the tree of knowledge before the tree of
+life. Life must ever be first. Knowing and not being, hearing and not
+doing, admiring and not possessing, all are light without
+life.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 17th.=
+
+      _Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
+      perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4._
+
+Are you where God would have you be? If not, come out, and at once, for
+you certainly ought not to be there. If you are, then be afraid to
+complain of circumstances which God has ordained on purpose to work out
+in you the very image and likeness of His Son.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 18th.=
+
+      _Sow beside all waters. Isa. xxxii. 20._
+
+Never mind whereabouts your work is. Never mind whether it be visible or
+not. Never mind whether your name is associated with it. You may never
+see the issues of your toils. You are working for eternity. If you
+cannot see results here in the hot working day, the cool evening hours
+are drawing near, when you may rest from your labors and then they will
+follow you. So do your duty, and trust God to give the seed you sow "a
+body as it hath pleased Him,"--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=July 19th.=
+
+      _Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Psa. cxix.
+      117._
+
+Do not spoil the chime of this morning's bells by ringing one half a
+peal! Do not say, "Hold thou me up," and stop there, or add, "But all
+the same I shall stumble and fall!" Finish the peal with God's own
+music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your mouth: "Hold
+thou me up, _and I shall be safe!_"--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=July 20th.=
+
+      _Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy.
+      Matt. viii. 6._
+
+We, in this age of the church, are in the position of that sick servant
+at Capernaum. To the eye of sense we are separated from the Savior. We
+see Him not--we can touch Him not--the hand cannot steal amid the crowd
+to catch His garment hem--we cannot hear His loved footsteps as of old
+on our threshold; but faith penetrates the invisible; the
+messenger--prayer--meets Him in the streets of the New Jerusalem; and
+faith and prayer together, the twin delegates from His church below, He
+has never yet sent empty away.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=July 21st.=
+
+      _Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling:
+      for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and
+      to do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 13._
+
+What a staggering weight of thought is excited by these words! Stay, my
+soul, and wonder that the Eternal God should stoop to work within thy
+narrow limits. Is it not a marvel indeed, that He, whom the heavens
+cannot contain, and in whose sight they are not clean, should trouble
+Himself to work on such material, so unpromising, and amidst
+circumstances so uncongenial?
+
+How careful should we be to make Him welcome, and to throw no hindrance
+in His way! How eager to garner up all the least movements of His
+gracious operation, as the machinist conserves the force of his engine;
+and as the goldsmith, with miserly care, collects every flake of gold
+leaf! Surely we shall be sensible of the _fear_ of holy reverence and
+the _trembling_ of eager anxiety; as we "work out," into daily act and
+life, all that God our Father is "working in."--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=July 22nd.=
+
+     _. . . Sinners of whom I am chief. . . . Now unto the
+     King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
+     be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Tim. i.
+     15, 17._
+
+Only those who have struck the deepest note of penitence can reach the
+highest note of praise.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=July 23rd.=
+
+      _Blessed is the man . . . that keepeth the Sabbath. Isa.
+      lvi. 2._
+
+The Sabbath is the savings-bank of human life, into which we deposit one
+day in seven to be repaid in the autumn of life with compound
+interest.--_Selected._
+
+
+=July 24th.=
+
+      _Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12._
+
+The world wants men who are saved from secret faults. The world can put
+on an outside goodness and go very far in uprightness and morality, and
+it expects that a Christian shall go beyond it, and be free from secret
+faults. A little crack will spoil the ring of the coin. . . . The world
+expects, and rightly, that the Christian should be more gentle, and
+patient, and generous, than he who does not profess to be a disciple of
+the Lord Jesus. For the sake of those who take their notion of religion
+from our lives, we need to put up this prayer earnestly, "Cleanse thou
+me from secret faults."--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 25th.=
+
+      _Do thou that which is good. 2 Kings x. 5._
+
+Keep as few good intentions hovering about as possible. They are like
+ghosts haunting a dwelling. The way to lay them is to find bodies for
+them. When they are embodied in substantial deeds they are no longer
+dangerous.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=July 26th.=
+
+      _Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
+      Savior, Jesus Christ. 2 Pet. iii. 18._
+
+Grace has its dawn as well as day; grace has its green blade, and
+afterwards its ripe corn in the ear; grace has its babes and its men in
+Christ. With God's work there, as with all His works, "in all places of
+His dominion," progress is both the prelude and the path to perfection.
+Therefore we are exhorted to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our
+Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to go on to perfection, saying with Paul,
+"I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do,
+forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those
+things which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the
+high calling of God in Christ Jesus."--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=July 27th.=
+
+      _Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived,
+      and by it slew me. Rom. vii. 11._
+
+Christian, beware how thou thinkest lightly of sin. Take heed lest thou
+fall by little and little. Sin, a _little_ thing? Is it not a poison?
+Who knows its deadliness? Sin, a little thing? Do not the little foxes
+spoil the grapes? Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which
+wrecks a navy? Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks? Will not continual
+droppings wear away stones? Sin, a little thing? It girded the
+Redeemer's head with thorns, and pierced His heart! It made _Him_ suffer
+anguish, bitterness and woe. Could you weigh the least sin in the scales
+of eternity, you would fly from it as from a serpent, and abhor _the
+least appearance of evil_. Look upon all sin as that which crucified the
+Savior, and you will see it to be "exceeding sinful."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=July 28th.=
+
+      _Your heavenly Father knoweth. Matt. vi. 32._
+
+The Master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.
+Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and
+weighs them where others only measure. Your Father! Think how great
+store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy
+and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed
+relationship, and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your
+own.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=July 29th.=
+
+      _Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
+      Col. iii. 3._
+
+It is neither talent, nor power, nor gifts that do the work of God, but
+it is that which lies within the power of the humblest; it is the
+simple, earnest life hid with Christ in God.--_F. W. Robertson._
+
+
+=July 30th.=
+
+      _The mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no
+      wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do
+      with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith
+      unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you, do
+      it. John ii. 3, 4, 5._
+
+In asking for temporal blessings, true wisdom lies in putting the matter
+into the Lord's hand, and leaving it there. He knows our sorrows, and,
+if He sees it is good for us that the water should be turned into wine,
+He will do it. It is not for us to dictate: He sees what is best for us.
+When we ask for prosperity, perhaps the thing which we should have is
+trial. When we want to be relieved of a "thorn in the flesh," He knows
+what we should have is an apprehension of the fact that His grace is
+sufficient for us. So we are put into His school, and have to learn the
+lessons He has to teach us.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=July 31st.=
+
+      _Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
+      fall. 1 Cor x. 12._
+
+Angels fell in heaven, Adam in paradise, Peter in Christ's
+presence.--_Theophilus Polwheile._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: AUGUST]
+
+
+=August 1st.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+The greatest and the best talent that God gives to any man or woman in
+this world is the talent of prayer. And the best usury that any man or
+woman brings back to God when He comes to reckon with them at the end
+of this world is a life of prayer. And those servants best put their
+Lord's money to the exchangers who rise early and sit late, as long as
+they are in this world, ever finding out, and ever following after
+better and better methods of prayer, and ever forming more secret, more
+steadfast, and more spiritually fruitful habits of prayer, till they
+literally pray without ceasing, and till they continually strike out
+into new enterprises in prayer, and new achievements, and new
+enrichments.--_Alex. Whyte._
+
+
+=August 2nd.=
+
+      _He entered into one of the ships . . . and . . . sat
+      down. Luke v. iii._
+
+When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo
+is in the hold, _not in the heart_. Cares and gains, fears and losses,
+yesterday's failure and today's success do not thrust themselves in
+between us and His presence. The heart cleaves to _Him_. "Goodness and
+mercy shall _follow_ me," sang the psalmist. Alas, when the goodness and
+mercy come before us, and our blessings shut Jesus from view! Here is
+the blessed order--the Lord ever first, I following Him, His goodness
+and mercy following me.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=August 3rd.=
+
+      _Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
+      light. Eph. v. 8._
+
+We do not realize the importance of the unconscious part of our life
+ministry. It goes on continually. In every greeting we give to another
+on the street, in every moment's conversation, in every letter we write,
+in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence that goes
+from us that often reaches further, and leaves a deep impression than
+the things themselves that we are doing at the time. It is not so much
+what we _do_ in this world as what we _are_, that tells in spiritual
+results and impressions.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=August 4th.=
+
+      _Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. ii.
+      10._
+
+Let us ask Him to work in us to _will_ those good works, so that our
+_will_, without being impaired in its free operation, may be permeated
+and moulded by His will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without
+displacing it. And let us also expect that He will infuse into us
+sufficient strength that we may be able to _do_ His will unto all
+pleasing. Thus, day by day, our life will be a manifestation of those
+holy volitions and lovely deeds which shall attest the indwelling and
+inworking of God. And men shall see our good works, and glorify our
+Father which is in heaven.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=August 5th.=
+
+      _Go in this thy might . . . have not I sent thee? Judges
+      vi. 14._
+
+God never leaves His child to fail when in the path of
+obedience.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=August 6th.=
+
+      _Set your affection on things above, not on things on
+      the earth. Col. iii. 2._
+
+      _Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy
+      might. Eccles. ix. 10._
+
+If we are to live separate from the world, how, since men only do well
+what they do with a will, are we, with affections fixed on things above,
+to perform aright the secular, ordinary duties of life? If our hearts
+are engrossed with heavenly things, how are we to obey this other, and
+equally divine, commandment, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
+with thy might"?
+
+The two are perfectly consistent. Man standing between the celestial and
+terrestrial worlds is related to both; and resembling neither a flower,
+which, springing from the dust and returning to it, belongs altogether
+to the earth, nor a star which, shining far remote from its lower
+sphere, belongs altogether to the heavens, our hearts may be fitly
+likened to the rainbow that, rising into heaven but resting on earth,
+is connected both with the clods of the valley and the clouds of the
+sky.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=August 7th.=
+
+      _Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
+      so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
+      race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. Heb.
+      xii. 1, 2._
+
+Think, as you sit here, of anything that you are doing that is wrong, of
+any habit of your life, of your self-indulgence, or of that great,
+pervasive habit of your life which makes you a creature of the present
+instead of the eternities, a creature of the material earth instead of
+the glorious skies. Ask yourself of any habit that belongs to your own
+personal life, and bring it face to face with Jesus Christ.--_Phillips
+Brooks._
+
+
+=August 8th.=
+
+      _They took knowledge of them, that they had been with
+      Jesus. Acts iv. 13._
+
+If I think of the world, I get the impress of the world; if I think of
+my trials and sorrows, I get the impress of my trials and sorrows; if I
+think of my failures, I get the impress of my failures; if I think of
+Christ, I get the impress of Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=August 9th.=
+
+      _Ye call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so
+      I am. John xiii. 13. (R. V. margin)._
+
+How wonderful a Teacher we have! Sometimes we seek Him in the house, but
+He is not there. We go forth seeking Him and find Him perhaps in the
+wilderness or on a mountain praying, or leading some poor blind man by
+the hand, or eating with publicans or sinners, or asleep in a storm or
+conversing with a Samaritan woman, or surrounded by wrathful men, or
+bearing a cross. It is not merely His words that instruct. His place,
+His occupation, His companions, His environment, His garment, His
+silence, His submission--all teem with instruction. And they that learn
+of Him are made like unto Him.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=August 10th.=
+
+      _The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the
+      world. 1 John iv. 14._
+
+It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His
+Father's permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of
+the Father that He might be the Savior of men. . . . Didst thou ever
+consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father
+equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? If not, be this thy
+day's meditation. The _Father_ sent Him! Contemplate that subject. Think
+how Jesus works what the _Father_ wills. In the wounds of the dying
+Savior see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be
+also connected with the eternal, ever-blessed God.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=August 11th.=
+
+      _They that wait upon the Lord shall change their
+      strength. Isa. xl. 31. (R. V.)_
+
+        Lord, what a change within us one short hour
+        Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!
+        What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!
+        What parched grounds refresh as with a shower!
+        We kneel--and all around us seems to lower.
+        We rise--and all the distant and the near
+        Stand forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.
+        We kneel--how weak: we rise--how full of power.
+
+        Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong
+        Or others--that we are not always strong;
+        That we are ever overborne with care;
+        That we should ever weak or heartless be,
+        Anxious or troubled, while with _us_ is prayer,
+        And joy and strength and courage are with _Thee_?
+                                       --_Archbishop Trench._
+
+
+=August 12th.=
+
+      _As for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee
+      so to do. Deut. xviii. 14._
+
+What a stepping-stone! We give thanks, often with a tearful, doubtful
+voice, for our spiritual mercies _positive_; but what an almost infinite
+field there is for mercies _negative_! We cannot even imagine all that
+God has suffered us _not_ to do, _not_ to be.--_Frances Ridley
+Havergal._
+
+
+=August 13th.=
+
+     _Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was
+     moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their
+     sick. . . . And when He had sent the multitudes away,
+     He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the
+     evening was come He was there alone. Matt. xiv. 14, 23._
+
+Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character? Are
+our _public_ duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the
+world, finely tempered and hallowed by a _secret_ walk with God? If the
+world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares, would it trace us
+to our family altars and our closet devotions?
+
+Action and meditation are the two great components of Christian life,
+and the perfection of the religious character is to find the two in
+unison and harmony.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=August 14th.=
+
+      _Leaving you an example, that ye should follow His
+      steps. 1 Pet. ii. 21. (R. V.)_
+
+I have long since ceased to pray, "Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost
+world!" I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord
+rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, "I have
+had compassion upon a lost world, and now it is for you to have
+compassion."--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=August 15th.=
+
+      _Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex. xx. 3._
+
+If you find yourself beginning to love any pleasure better than your
+prayers, any book better than your Bible, any house better than God's,
+any table better than the Lord's, any person better than your Savior,
+any one better than your soul, a present indulgence better than the hope
+of heaven--take alarm!--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=August 16th.=
+
+      _Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1
+      Cor. xi. 1._
+
+When in the Mexican war the troops were wavering, a general rose in his
+stirrups and dashed into the enemy's line, shouting, "Men, follow!"
+They, seeing his courage and disposition, dashed on after him, and
+gained the victory.
+
+What men want to rally them for God is an example to lead them. All your
+commands to others to advance amount to nothing so long as you stay
+behind. To effect them aright, you need to start for heaven yourself,
+looking back only to give the stirring cry of "Men, follow!"--_T. DeWitt
+Talmage._
+
+
+=August 17th.=
+
+      _Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx.
+      19._
+
+There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of
+sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in
+despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he
+was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood, which was
+destined for the fire. He obeyed, and produced a masterpiece from a log
+of common fire-wood.
+
+Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find
+sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common
+logs that we burn.--_Orison Swett Marden._
+
+
+=August 18th.=
+
+      _My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
+      made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9._
+
+God's way of answering His people's prayers is not by removing the
+pressure, but by increasing their strength to bear it. The pressure is
+often the fence between the narrow way of life and the broad road to
+ruin; and if our Heavenly Father were to remove it, it might be at the
+sacrifice of heaven. Oh, if God had removed that thorny fence in answer,
+often to earnest prayers, how many of us would now be castaways! How the
+song of many a saint now in glory would be hushed! How many a harp would
+be unstrung! How many a place in the mansions of the redeemed would be
+unfilled! If God answered all the prayers we put up to heaven, we should
+need no other scourge. Blessed it is that we have One who is too loving
+to grant what we too often so rashly ask.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=August 19th.=
+
+      _Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
+      fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more
+      can ye, except ye abide in me. John xv. 4._
+
+From moment to moment, and from hour to hour, the inner nature of man is
+to be continuously sustained with the life of God. Only as I am
+constantly receiving His fulness into my emptiness am I really living in
+the true, full, deep sense of the word, that life of eternity, which is
+my privilege now, and will be my glory hereafter.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=August 20th.=
+
+      _By faith Noah . . . prepared an ark to the saving of
+      his house. Heb. xi. 7._
+
+What a humble, what a modest sphere for the exercise of faith! One would
+have said that the purpose was quite disproportionate to the work. The
+ark was a great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for? To save his
+own family. Is so narrow a sphere worthy to be the object of faith? Is
+so commonplace a scene as the life of the family circle fit to be a
+temple for the service of God? . . . My soul, when thou hast finished
+thy prayers and ended thy meditations, do not say that thou hast left
+the house of God. God's house shall to thee be everywhere, and thine own
+house shall be a part of it. Thou shalt feel that all the duties of
+this place are consecrated; that it is none other than the house of God
+and one of the gates to heaven. Thou shalt feel that every one of its
+duties is an act of high communion. Therefore be it thine to make thy
+house _His_ house. Be it thine to consecrate each word and look and deed
+in the social life of home. Be it thine to build thine ark of refuge for
+the wants of common day; verily, thy labor of love shall be called an
+act of faith.--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=August 21st.=
+
+      _We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
+      good works which God hath before ordained that we
+      should walk in them. Eph. ii. 10._
+
+No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is
+always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.--_J. B.
+Lowell._
+
+
+=August 22nd.=
+
+      _He . . . began to wash the disciples' feet. John xiii.
+      5._
+
+We forget that Jesus Christ is the same to-day, when He is sitting on
+the throne, as He was yesterday, when He trod the pathway of our world.
+And in this forgetfulness how much we miss! What He was, that He is.
+What He said, that He says. The Gospels are simply specimens of the life
+that He is ever living; they are leaves torn out of the diary of His
+unchangeable Being. To-day He is engaged in washing the feet of His
+disciples, soiled with their wilderness journeyings. Yes, that charming
+incident is having its fulfilment in thee, my friend, if only thou dost
+not refuse the lowly loving offices of Him whom we call Master and Lord,
+but who still girds Himself and comes forth to serve. And we must have
+this incessant cleansing if we would keep right. It is not enough to
+look back to a certain hour when we first knelt at the feet of the Son
+of God for pardon; and heard Him say, "Thy sins, which are many, are all
+forgiven." We need daily, hourly cleansing--from daily, hourly sin.--_F.
+B. Meyer._
+
+
+=August 23rd.=
+
+      _I am the Lord, I change not. Mal. iii. 6._
+
+Our hope is not hung upon such untwisted thread as "I imagine so," or
+"it is likely"; but the cable, the strong rope of our fastened anchor,
+is the oath and promise of Him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is
+fastened with God's own hand and Christ's own strength to the strong
+stake of God's unchanging nature.--_William Rutherford._
+
+
+=August 24th.=
+
+      _I will cause the shower to come down in his season;
+      there shall be showers of blessing. Ezek. xxxiv. 26._
+
+What is thy _season_ this morning? Is it the season of drought? Then
+that is the season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and
+black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall
+thy strength be." "I will give thee _showers_ of blessing." The word is
+in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. All God's blessings
+go together, like links in a golden chain. If He gives converting grace,
+He will also give comforting grace. He will send "showers of blessings."
+Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a
+heavenly watering.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=August 25th.=
+
+      _Nevertheless, at thy word. Luke v. 5._
+
+Oh, what a blessed formula for us! This path of mine is dark,
+mysterious, perplexing; _nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will go forward.
+This trial of mine is cutting, sore for flesh and blood to bear. It is
+hard to breathe through a broken heart, Thy will be done. But,
+_nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will say, Even so, Father! This besetting
+habit, or infirmity, or sin of mine, is difficult to crucify. It has
+become part of myself--a second nature; to be severed from it would be
+like the cutting off of a right hand, or the plucking out of a right
+eye; _nevertheless, at Thy word_ I will lay aside every weight; this
+idol I will utterly abolish. This righteousness of mine it is hard to
+ignore; all these virtues, and amiabilities, and natural graces, it is
+hard to believe that they dare not in any way be mixed up in the matter
+of my salvation; and that I am to receive all from first to last as the
+gift of God, through Jesus Christ my Lord. _Nevertheless, at Thy word_ I
+will count all but loss for the excellency of His knowledge.--_Macduff._
+
+
+=August 26th.=
+
+      _If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. 2 Tim.
+      ii. 12._
+
+The photographer must have a negative, as he calls it, in order to
+furnish you with a picture. Now, the earthly cross is the negative from
+which the heavenly crown is to be made; the suffering and sorrow of the
+present time determining the glory, honor and immortality of the life to
+come.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=August 27th.=
+
+      _The word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. 1
+      Pet. i. 23._
+
+The Word abideth. The Jew hated it--but it lived on, while the veil was
+torn away from the shrine which the Shekinah had forsaken, and while
+Jerusalem itself was destroyed. The Greek derided it--but it has seen
+his philosophy effete and his Acropolis in ruins. The Romans threw it
+into the flames--but it rose from its ashes, and swooped down upon the
+falling eagle. The reasoner cast it into the furnace, which his own
+negligence had heated "seven times hotter than its wont"--but it came
+out without the smell of fire. The formalist fastened serpents around it
+to poison it--but it shook them off and felt no harm. The infidel cast
+it overboard in a tempest of sophistry and sarcasm--but it rode
+gallantly upon the crest of the proud waters. And it is living
+still--yet heard in the loudest swelling of the storm--it has been
+speaking all the while--it is speaking now!--_Punshon._
+
+
+=August 28th.=
+
+      _Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. Col. iii.
+      15._
+
+Years ago one of our fleets was terribly shattered by a violent
+gale--but it was found that some of the ships were unaffected by its
+violence. They were in what mariners call "the eye of the storm." While
+all around was desolation, they were safe. So it is with him who has the
+peace of God in his heart.--_Pilkington._
+
+
+=August 29th.=
+
+      _Ye serve the Lord Christ. Col. iii. 24._
+
+Our business as Christians is to serve the Lord in every business of
+life.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=August 30th.=
+
+      _Love not the world, neither the things that are in
+      the world. 1 John ii. 15._
+
+If you will go to the banks of a little stream, and watch the flies that
+come to bathe in it, you will notice that, while they plunge their
+_bodies_ into the water, they keep their _wings_ high out of the water;
+and, after swimming about a little while, they fly away with their wings
+unwet through the sunny air. Now, that is the lesson for us. Here we are
+immersed in the cares and business of the world; but let us keep the
+wings of our soul, our faith and our love, out of the world, that, with
+these unclogged, we may be ready to take our flight to heaven.--_J.
+Inglis._
+
+
+=August 31st.=
+
+      _I would have you without carefulness. 1 Cor. vii.
+      32._
+
+Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear.
+Rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you
+are, will deliver you out of them. He has kept you hitherto--do you but
+hold fast to His dear hand, and He will lead you safely through all
+things; and when you cannot stand, He will bear you in His arms. Do not
+look forward to what may happen to-morrow. The same everlasting Father
+who cares for you to-day will take care of you to-morrow, and every day.
+Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing
+strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious
+thoughts and imaginations.--_Francis de Sales._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: September]
+
+
+=September 1st.=
+
+      _Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be
+      inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.
+      Ezek. xxxvi. 37._
+
+Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history and you will
+find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded
+by supplication. Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes
+before the blessing _as the blessing's shadow_. When the sunlight of
+God's mercies rises upon our necessities it casts the shadow of prayer
+far down upon the plain. Or, to use another illustration, when God piles
+up a hill of mercies He Himself shines behind them, and He casts on our
+spirits the shadow of prayer so that we may rest certain, if we are much
+in prayer, our pleadings are the shadows of mercy. Prayer is thus
+connected with the blessing to show us the value of it.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=September 2nd.=
+
+      _Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season
+      we shall reap if we faint not. Gal. vi. 9._
+
+The hours of this present life are the ages in embryo of the life to
+come.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=September 3rd.=
+
+      _My presence shall go with thee. Ex. xxxiii. 14._
+
+We should never leave our prayer closets in the morning without having
+concentrated our thoughts deeply and intensely on the fact of the actual
+presence of God there with us, encompassing us, and filling the room as
+literally as it fills heaven itself. It may not lead to any distinct
+results at first, but, as we make repeated efforts to realize the
+presence of God, it will become increasingly real to us. And, as the
+habit grows upon us, when alone in a room, or when treading the sward of
+some natural woodland temple, or when pacing the stony street--in the
+silence of night, or amid the teeming crowds of daylight--we shall often
+find ourselves whispering the words, "Thou art near; thou art here, O
+Lord."--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=September 4th.=
+
+      _To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness.
+      Dan. ix. 9._
+
+As a spring lock closes itself, but cannot be unlocked without a key, so
+we ourselves may run into sin, but cannot return without the key of
+God's grace.--_Cawdray._
+
+
+=September 5th.=
+
+      _It is high time to awake out of sleep. Rom. xiii.
+      11._
+
+I have heard of a painter who loved to work by the morning light. He
+said that the colors were better understood by the light of the early
+day, and so he was wont to be in his studio waiting for the rising of
+the sun. Then every moment it grew lighter, and he found he could
+accomplish things which he could not reach if he waited till the day had
+advanced.
+
+Is there not work waiting for us--work that no one else can do--work,
+too, that the Master has promised to help us perform? Shall He come and
+find that we still sleep? Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when He
+appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited, looking and longing
+for the first gleam of day? Surely those of us who thus wait on the Lord
+shall renew our strength, and, eagle-like, rise to greet the
+Sun.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=September 6th.=
+
+      _The church of God, which He hath purchased with His
+      own blood. Acts xx. 28._
+
+Surely He may do what He will with His own. The price He has paid to
+make them His own is a sufficient guarantee that He will never make
+light of anything in which their welfare is at all concerned. We are
+precious to Him by the virtue of the blood which He has shed for us, and
+for Him to be found at any time wanting in solicitude for our happiness
+would be for Him to treat that blood of His as the sinners of this world
+treat it. The persuasion of Christ's love must be graven in our hearts
+so deeply that no semblance of indifference on His part will ever make
+the slightest impression upon us. This is the victory which overcometh
+the world.--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=September 7th.=
+
+      _The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
+      believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the
+      power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. xv. 13._
+
+In spiritual as in earthly things there is great strength in hope, and,
+therefore, God's people are carefully to cultivate that grace. A
+well-grounded hope that, having been made new creatures in Jesus Christ,
+we are His; that with our names, though unknown to fame, written in the
+Book of Life, we have grace in possession and heaven in prospect; that
+after a few more brief years, pure as the angels that sing before the
+throne, we shall be brought with gladness into the palace of the King,
+to be like Christ and with Christ, seeing Him eye to eye and face to
+face--such hopes are powerful springs of action.--_Guthrie._
+
+
+=September 8th.=
+
+      _He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it him, even
+      length of days or ever and ever. Psa. xxi. 4._
+
+When poor men make requests of us we usually answer them as the echo
+does the voice--the answer cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom
+find among men Jael's courtesy, giving milk to those that ask water,
+except it be as this was, an entangling benefit, the better to introduce
+a mischief. There are not many Naamans among us, that, when you beg of
+them one talent, will force you to take two; but God's answer to our
+prayers is like a multiplying glass, which renders the request much
+greater in the answer than it was in the prayer.--_Bishop Reynolds._
+
+
+=September 9th.=
+
+      _This beginning of miracles did Jesus. John ii. 11._
+
+It was out of the common thing that the precious thing was brought; and
+it is out of the common things of daily life, presented obediently to
+Jesus and laid at His feet, that He brings His own glorious gifts, so
+that our whole lives become one great sacrament.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=September 10th.=
+
+      _In the daytime . . . He led them with a cloud, and all
+      the night with a light of fire. Psa. lxxviii. 14._
+
+My day is my prosperity; it is the time when the sun of fortune is
+bright above me, and, therefore, it is the time when I need a shade. If
+my sunshine were not chequered I would forget Thee, O my God.
+
+But I have nights to meet as well as days. The night is my adversity; it
+is the time when the sun of fortune has gone down behind the hills, and
+I am left alone, and then it is, O my Father, that I need the light of
+Thy fire! My light of fire for the night is the vision of Calvary--the
+vision of Thy love in the Cross. I need the light of Thy fire "_all_ the
+night."--_George Matheson._
+
+
+=September 11th.=
+
+      _Now are we the sons of God: and it doth not yet
+      appear what we shall be; but we know that when He
+      shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see
+      Him as He is. 1 John iii. 2._
+
+"Now are we the sons of God." That is the pier upon one side of the
+gulf. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when He shall appear
+we shall be like Him." That is the pier on the other. How are the two to
+be connected? There is only one way by which the present sonship will
+blossom and fruit into the future perfect likeness, and that is, if we
+throw across the gulf, by God's help day by day, the bridge of growing
+likeness to Himself, and purity therefrom.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=September 12th.=
+
+      _Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. xx. 18._
+
+Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus
+here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not
+enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have
+been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was a going up to a triumph
+to be reached through defeat, a coronation to be attained through
+ignominy and humiliation.
+
+O believer, in your walk through the world to-day, be strengthened, be
+comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle of the Captain of your
+salvation thus going up to Jerusalem! And remember, in all those
+apparently _downward_ passages of life, where sorrow, and it may be
+death, lie before you, that all such descents, made or endured in the
+Spirit of Jesus, are really _upgoing_ steps, leading you to the mount of
+God and the resurrection glory.--_J. B. Stratton._
+
+
+=September 13th.=
+
+      _These were the potters, and those that dwelt among
+      plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for
+      his work. 1 Chron. iv. 23._
+
+Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell "with the King for His work." We
+may be in a very unlikely or unfavorable place for this; it may be in a
+little country life, with little enough to be seen of the "goings" of
+the King around us; it may be among hedges of all sorts, hindrances in
+all directions; it may be, furthermore, with our hands full of all
+manner of pottery for our daily task. No matter! The King who placed us
+"there" will come and dwell there with us; the hedges are all right, or
+He would soon do away with them; and it does not follow that what seems
+to hinder our way may not be for its very protection; and as for the
+pottery, why, this is just exactly what He has seen fit to put into our
+hands, and therefore it is, for the present, "His work."--_Frances
+Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=September 14th.=
+
+      I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which
+      thou shalt go; _I will guide thee with mine eye. Psa.
+      xxxii. 8._
+
+When God does the directing, our life is useful and full of promise,
+whatever it is doing; and discipline has its perfecting work.--_H. E.
+Cobb._
+
+
+=September 15th.=
+
+      _The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
+      minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.
+      Matt. xx. 28._
+
+We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of
+His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We are to live, like
+God, to bless others. This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This
+is what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the claim of His
+great love upon us.
+
+Do not sigh a poor assent to the truth of it, and then pass by
+neglectfully on the other side. Do not think about it and pray about it
+without even a passing hope that the prayer will be answered. Do not
+gather yourself up in great resolutions to be good and useful. Kneel in
+sight of the Crucified. In the cross of Christ spell out His great
+purpose and yearning love to men. Let the heart feel all the might of
+the appeal that comes to us from those torn hands and feet and bleeding
+brow, from all the dreadful shame and agony of our dear Lord. And,
+bought and bound by all this, surrender yourself to Him for His great
+purpose. Take Him as your strength for this life-work.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+=September 16th.=
+
+      _Jesus . . . went about doing good. Acts x. 38._
+
+The finest of all fine arts is the art of doing good; and yet it is the
+least cultivated.--_T. DeWitt Talmage._
+
+
+=September 17th.=
+
+      _And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar],
+      Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her
+      hands. Gen. xvi. 9._
+
+SUBMISSION is a great Christian law, but we find it early in Genesis,
+early in the history of mankind, and angel-given.--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 18th.=
+
+      _Then spake Solomon . . . I have surely built thee an
+      house to dwell in. 1 Kings viii. 12, 13._
+
+Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would
+be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God's temple, let us
+note this; not by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ
+shall we draw men unto Him.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=September 19th.=
+
+      _I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa.
+      xlviii. 10._
+
+Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the
+flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no
+power? Let affliction come--God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest
+stride in at my door--but God is in the house already, and He has chosen
+me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude, but I have a balsam ready--God has
+chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears I know that He has
+"chosen" me. Fear not, Christian; Jesus is with thee. In all thy fiery
+trials His presence is both thy comfort and safety. He will never leave
+one whom He has chosen for His own. "Fear not, for I am with thee," is
+His sure word of promise to His chosen ones in the "furnace of
+affliction."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=September 20th.=
+
+      _Base things of the world and things which are
+      despised hath God chosen. 1 Cor. i. 28._
+
+In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen pictures not painted
+with the brush, but mosaics, which are made up of small pieces of stone,
+glass, or other material. The artist takes these little pieces, and,
+polishing and arranging them, he forms them into the grand and beautiful
+picture. Each individual part of the picture may be a little worthless
+piece of glass or marble or shell; but, with each in its place, the
+whole constitutes the masterpiece of art.
+
+So I think it will be with humanity in the hands of the great Artist.
+God is picking up the little worthless pieces of stone and brass that
+might be trodden under foot unnoticed, and is making of them His great
+masterpiece.--_Bishop Simpson._
+
+
+=September 21st.=
+
+      _Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His
+      presence with singing. Psa. c. 2._
+
+God wants our life to be a song. He has written the music for us in His
+Word and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in
+life. The things we ought to do are the notes set upon the staff. To
+make our life beautiful music we must be obedient and submissive. Any
+disobedience is the singing of a false note, and yields discord.--_J. R.
+Miller._
+
+
+=September 22nd.=
+
+      _When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when
+      thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is
+      in secret. Matt. vi. 6._
+
+This is faith's stronghold; here she weapons herself for the daily
+conflict. Silence in that closet of prayer bespeaks death throughout all
+the house. When that door is suffered to rust on its hinges, and that
+chamber is deserted, then the heart-house is soon retaken by Satan, and
+evil spirits come in and dwell there.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=September 23rd.=
+
+      _Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Pet. i. 16._
+
+The highway of holiness is along the commonest road of life--along your
+very way. In wind and rain, no matter how it beats--it is only going
+hand in hand with Him.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=September 24th.=
+
+      _And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
+      thing which I do? Gen. xviii. 17._
+
+Abraham, in communion with God, knew long before Lot, in Sodom, of the
+destruction of that city. Oh for more communion!--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 25th.=
+
+      _The life which I now live in the flesh. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+I expect to pass through this world but once--therefore, if there be any
+kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human
+being, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not
+pass this way again.--_Marcus Aurelius._
+
+
+=September 26th.=
+
+      _So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
+      hearts unto wisdom. Psa. xc. 12._
+
+Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated:
+whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires
+to be taught this point of holy arithmetic--to number not his years, but
+his days. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously
+prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.--_Bishop Hall._
+
+
+=September 27th.=
+
+      _Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. i. 27._
+
+Religion is not the simple fire-escape that you build in anticipation of
+a possible danger, upon the outside of your dwelling, and leave there
+until danger comes. You go to it some morning when a fire breaks out in
+your house, and the poor old thing that you built up there, and thought
+that you could use some day, is so rusty and broken, and the weather has
+so beaten upon it and the sun so turned its hinges, that it will not
+work. That is the condition of a man who has built himself what seems a
+creed of faith, a trust in God in anticipation of the day when danger is
+to overtake him, and has said to himself, I am safe, for I will take
+refuge in it then. But religion is the house in which we live, it is the
+table at which we sit, it is the fireside at which we draw near, the
+room that arches its graceful and familiar presence over us; it is the
+bed on which we lie and think of the past, and anticipate the future,
+and gather our refreshment.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=September 28th.=
+
+      _Wait for the promise of the Father. Acts i. 4._
+
+Tarry at a promise till God meets you there. He always returns by way of
+His promises.--_Selected._
+
+
+=September 29th.=
+
+      _This is the victory that overcometh the world, even
+      our faith. 1 John v. 4._
+
+The world conquers me when it succeeds in hindering me from seeing,
+loving, holding communion with, and serving my Father, God. I conquer it
+when I lay my hand upon it and force it to help me to get nearer Him, to
+get more like Him, to think oftener of Him, to do His will more gladly
+and more constantly. The one victory over the world is to bend it to
+serve me in the highest things--the attainment of a clearer vision of
+the divine nature, the attainment of a deeper love to God Himself, and a
+more glad consecration and service to Him. That is the victory--when you
+can make the world a ladder to lift you to God. When the world comes
+between you and God as an obscuring screen, it has conquered you. When
+the world comes between you and God as a transparent medium you have
+conquered it. To win victory is to get it beneath your feet and stand
+upon it, and reach up thereby to God.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=September 30th.=
+
+      _He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep
+      thee in all thy ways. Psa. xci. 11._
+
+Count no duty too little, no round of life too small, no work too low,
+if it come in thy way, since God thinks so much of it as to send His
+angels to guard thee in it.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: October]
+
+
+=October 1st.=
+
+      _At Jesus' feet. Luke x. 39._
+
+At Jesus' feet--that is our place of privilege and of blessing, and here
+it is that we are to be educated and fitted for the practical duties of
+life. Here we are to renew our strength while we wait on Him, and to
+learn how to mount on wings as eagles; and here we are to become
+possessed of that true knowledge which is power. Here we are to learn
+how real work is to be done, and to be armed with the true motive power
+to do it. Here we are to find solace amidst both the trials of work--and
+they are not few--and the trials of life in general; and here we are to
+anticipate something of the blessedness of heaven amidst the days of
+earth; for to sit at His feet is indeed to be in heavenly places, and to
+gaze upon His glory is to do what we shall never tire of doing
+yonder.--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=October 2nd.=
+
+      _God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
+      God, and God in him. 1 John iv. 16._
+
+_God is love_; and it is good, as it is true, to think that every
+sun-ray that touches the earth has the sun at the other end of it; so
+every bit of love upon God's earth has God at the other end of
+it.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+_October 3rd._
+
+      _They took knowledge of them that they had been with
+      Jesus. Acts iv. 13._
+
+A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read
+lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life
+of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions
+of His people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we should be,
+we would be pictures of Christ; yea, such striking likenesses of Him
+that the world would not have to hold us up by the hour together, and
+say, "Well, it seems somewhat of a likeness": but they would, when they
+once beheld us, exclaim, "He has been with Jesus; he has been taught of
+Him; he is like Him; he has caught the very idea of the holy Man of
+Nazareth, and he works it out in his life and every day
+actions."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=October 4th.=
+
+      _Be not afraid, only believe. Mark v. 36._
+
+Be not downcast if difficulties and trials surround you in your heavenly
+life. They may be purposely placed there by God to train and discipline
+you for higher developments of faith. If He calls you to "toiling in
+rowing," it may be to make you the hardier seaman, to lead you to lift
+up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and, above all, to
+drive you to a holier trust in Him who has the vessel and its destinies
+in His hand, and who, amid gathering clouds and darkened horizon and
+crested billows is ever uttering the mild rebuke to our
+misgivings--"Said I not unto thee, if thou wouldest believe, thou
+shouldst see the glory of God."--_Macduff._
+
+
+=October 5th.=
+
+      _Happy is the man whom God correcteth. Job v. 17._
+
+Happy, because the correction is designed to bring him into paths of
+blessedness and peace.
+
+Happy, because there is no unnecessary severity in it.
+
+Happy, because the chastisement is not so much against us, as against
+our most cruel enemies--our sins.
+
+Happy, because we have abundant words of consolation.
+
+Happy, because whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.
+
+Happy, because our light affliction is but for a moment.--_George
+Bowen._
+
+
+=October 6th.=
+
+      _When they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding
+      great joy. Matt. ii. 10._
+
+We who look for Jesus ought to be joyful; it is no credit to our Lord
+when we look as though we were seeking His grave. The dull looks of
+Christ's followers have injured Him in the sight of the world. Let us,
+then, smile as we go, for we have the star if we will look up and put
+ourselves in the right path.--_Thos. Champness._
+
+
+=October 7th.=
+
+      _When I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto
+      me. Micah vii. 8._
+
+If you are willing to choose the seeming darkness of faith instead of
+the illumination of reason, wonderful light will break out upon you from
+the Word of God.--_A. J. Gordon._
+
+
+=October 8th.=
+
+      _I (Daniel) was left alone, and saw this great vision.
+      Dan. x. 8._
+
+Solitude is the antechamber of God; only one step more and you can be
+in His immediate presence.--_Landor._
+
+
+=October 9th.=
+
+      _Come and dine. John xxi. 12._
+
+This morning the voice of the Beloved of our soul is heard giving us His
+invitation.
+
+"Children," He asks, "have ye any meat?"
+
+We answer, "No; of ourselves we have nothing but hunger and starvation.
+O God, we cannot feed ourselves!"
+
+Then it is that His own sweet voice replies, "Come and dine!"--_W. Hay
+Aitken._
+
+
+=October 10th.=
+
+      _O Lord God, Thou knowest! Ezek. xxxvii. 3._
+
+Here is the response of faith. "Thou knowest!"--what a pillow for the
+heart to repose upon! "Thou knowest!"--what few but comprehensive words
+to sum up and express the heart's difficulties and perplexities and
+trials. "Thou knowest!"--what an inexpressibly sweet resting-place in
+the midst of life's tumultuous heavings; in the midst of a sea that
+knows no calm; in the midst of a scene in which tossings to and fro are
+the hourly history! What an answer they contain for every heart that can
+find no words to express its big emotions; for a heart whose sorrows are
+too deep for language to find its way to God! Oh, that they were ever
+uppermost in the soul, as the response to every difficulty in our path!
+They are God's answer to everything we cannot fathom; God's answer for
+our hearts to rest upon, and our lips to utter, when every way is hedged
+up so that we cannot pass. "O Lord God, thou knowest!" Rest here,
+believer. Lean thy soul on these words. Repose calmly on the bosom of
+thy God, and carry them with thee into every scene of life. "O Lord God,
+thou knowest."--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=October 11th.=
+
+      _Behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of
+      it reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12._
+
+Think of that mystic ladder, which descends from the throne of God to
+the spot, however lowly, where you may be. It may be a moorland waste; a
+humble cottage; a ship's cabin; a settler's hut; a bed of pain; but
+Jesus Christ finds you out, and comes just where you are. The one pole
+of this ladder is the gold of His deity; the other is the silver of His
+manhood; the rungs are the series of events from the cradle of Bethlehem
+to the right hand of power, where He sits. That ladder sways beneath a
+weight of blessing for you. Oh, that you would send away your burdens of
+sin, and care, and fear, by the hands of the ascending angels of prayer
+and faith!--so as to be able to receive into your heart the trooping
+angels of peace, and joy, and love, and glory.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=October 12th.=
+
+      _Surely God is in this place, and I knew it not. Gen.
+      xxviii. 16._
+
+        The Parish Priest, of austerity,
+          Climbed up in the high church steeple
+        To be nearer God, that he might hand
+          His word down to the people.
+        And in sermon script he daily wrote
+          What he thought was sent from heaven;
+        And he dropped it down on the people's heads
+          Two times one day in seven.
+        In his age God said, "Come down and die."
+          And he cried out from the steeple:
+        "Where art thou, Lord?" And the Lord replied:
+          "Down here among My people."--_Selected._
+
+
+=October 13th.=
+
+      _Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes
+      and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do
+      them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land
+      which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Deut.
+      iv. 1._
+
+"Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess." This is a
+universal and abiding principle. It was true for Israel, and it is true
+for us. The pathway of life and the true secret of possession is simple
+obedience to the holy commandments of God. We see this all through the
+inspired volume, from cover to cover. God has given us His Word, not to
+speculate upon it or discuss it, but that we may obey it. And it is as
+we, through grace, yield a hearty and happy obedience to our Father's
+statutes and judgments, that we tread the bright pathway of life, and
+enter into the reality of all that God has treasured up for us in
+Christ.--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=October 14th.=
+
+      _I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the
+      life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
+      of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for
+      me. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+The man who lives in God knows no life except the life of
+God.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=October 15th.=
+
+      _Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the
+      breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the
+      hope of salvation. 1 Thess. v. 8._
+
+_Faith, love, hope_--these three form the defensive armor that guards
+the soul; and these three make self-control possible. Like a diver in
+his dress who is let down to the bottom of the wild, far-weltering
+ocean, a man whose heart is girt by faith and charity, and whose head is
+covered with the helmet of hope, may be dropped down into the wildest
+sea of temptation and of worldliness, and yet will walk dry and unharmed
+through the midst of its depths, and breathe air that comes from a world
+above the restless surges. _Faith_ will bring you into communication
+with all the power of God. _Love_ will lead you into a region where all
+the temptations round you will be touched as by Ithuriel's spear, and
+will show their own foulness. And _Hope_ will turn away your eyes from
+looking at the tempting splendor around, and fix them upon the glories
+that are above. And so the reins will come into your hands in an
+altogether new manner, and you will be able to be king over your own
+nature in a fashion that you did not dream of before, if only you will
+trust in Christ and love Him, and fix your desires on the things above.
+Then you will be able to govern yourself, when you let Christ govern
+you.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=October 16th.=
+
+      _The word of our God shall stand forever. Isa. xl. 8._
+
+The Word of God is the water of life; the more ye lave it forth, the
+fresher it runneth. It is the fire of God's glory; the more ye blow it,
+the clearer it burneth. It is the corn of the Lord's field; the better
+ye grind it, the more it yieldeth. It is the bread of heaven; the more
+it is broken and given forth, the more it remaineth. It is the sword of
+the Spirit; the more it is scoured, the brighter it shineth.--_Bishop
+Jewel._
+
+
+=October 17th.=
+
+      _I spake unto thee in thy prosperity. Jer. xxii. 21._
+
+We shade our eyes with the hand to shut out the glare of the strong
+daylight when we want to see far away. God thus puts, as it were, His
+hand upon our brows, and tempers the glow of prosperity, that we may
+take in the wider phases of His goodness. It is a common experience
+that, looking out from the gloom of some personal affliction, men have
+seen for the first time beyond the earth plane, and caught glimpses of
+the Beulah Land. Let us not shrink from the Hand which we know is heavy
+only with blessing.--_Ludlow._
+
+
+=October 18th.=
+
+      _Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the
+      fowler. Psa. xci. 3._
+
+_He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler._ That is, from the
+little things, the hidden traps and nets that are set for us. Great sins
+frighten where little snares entangle. It is easier to escape the
+huntsman's arrow than the crafty lure.
+
+And where are they not set? Riches and poverty, sickness and strength,
+prosperity and adversity, friendship and loneliness, the work and the
+want of it--each has its snare, wherein not only are the unwary caught,
+but the wise and the watchful sometimes fall a prey. Little things, mere
+threads, hardly worth guarding against--yet they are strong enough to
+hold us and hinder us, and may be the beginning of our destruction.--_Mark
+Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=October 19th.=
+
+      _The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Gen. iv. 15._
+
+We speak of the mark of Cain as if it was the mark of a curse. In
+reality it was the mark of God's mercy, a defence against his
+enemies.--_D. J. Burrell._
+
+
+=October 20th.=
+
+      _Who is among you that feareth the Lord . . . that
+      walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust
+      in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Isa.
+      l. 10._
+
+"In fierce storms," said an old seaman, "we can do but one thing, there
+is only one way; we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her
+there."
+
+This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul, you can see
+neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you
+can do but one thing; there is only one way. Reason cannot help you.
+Past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation.
+Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and
+keep it there. You must stay upon the Lord; and, come what may--winds,
+waves, cross seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring
+breakers--no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold
+fast your confidence in God's faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His
+everlasting love in Christ Jesus.--_Richard Fuller._
+
+
+=October 21st.=
+
+      _Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a
+      crown of life. Rev. ii. 10._
+
+There is a heaven at the end of every faithful Christian's
+journey.--_Cuyler._
+
+
+=October 22nd.=
+
+      _Flee into Egypt. Matt. ii. 13._
+
+Why? Because there is a cruel king who will seek the young child's life.
+
+Is Christ born in thee? Is thy life like that manger--precious as a
+casket, because of what it holds? Then have a care; for, craftier and
+more unscrupulous than Herod, the destroyer of souls will seek to
+destroy thee.
+
+There is a day coming when they shall say, "They are dead which sought
+the young child's life." Grace shall survive the foe, and we shall yet
+return to enjoy the comforts of life, with no Herod to threaten us.
+After all, it is sin which is short-lived, for goodness shall flourish
+when the evil one is chained up for ever.--_Thos. Champness._
+
+
+=October 23rd.=
+
+      _As my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant
+      do. 1 Kings ii. 38._
+
+There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for God,
+and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to be, to do
+what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from His.--_G.
+Campbell Morgan._
+
+
+=October 24th.=
+
+      _Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
+      your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
+      heaven. Matt. v. 16._
+
+They say the world has an eagle eye for anything inconsistent, an eye
+sharp to discover the vagaries and inconsistencies in the defaulty and
+the unworthy. It has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the sun,
+and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before the unsullied
+purity of noon. Let your light so shine before men, that others, awed
+and charmed by the consistency of your godly life, may come to enquire,
+and to say you have been with Jesus.--_Punshon._
+
+
+=October 25th.=
+
+      _The eleven disciples went . . . into a mountain where
+      Jesus had appointed them . . . Jesus came and spake
+      unto them saying . . . Go ye and teach all nations.
+      Matt. xxviii. 16, 18, 19._
+
+The considerable actions in the world have usually very small
+beginnings. Of a few letters, how many thousand words are made! Of ten
+figures, how many thousand numbers! A point is the beginning of all
+geometry. A little stone flung into a pond makes a little circle, then a
+greater, till it enlarges itself to both the sides. So from small
+beginnings God doth cause an efflux through the whole world.--_Charnock._
+
+
+=October 26th.=
+
+      _Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which
+      shall be to all people. Luke ii. 10._
+
+It is true that these good tidings of great joy were to be "for all
+people," but not _first_. The message falls on our own ears, and is
+first for our own souls.
+
+Oh, ponder this well! Take all God's truths home _first_ to thine own
+heart. Ask in earnest prayer that the Spirit may write them with the pen
+of heaven on thine own conscience. Then wilt thou be a vessel fitted for
+the Master's use, and carry His message with spiritual power to the
+souls of others.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=October 27th.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of heaven: nor are
+sorrow and care any mark of God's disfavor, but the reverse. God's love
+is robust, and true, and eager--not for our comfort, but for our lasting
+blessedness; it is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to
+bear misrepresentation and rebuke in its attempts to attune our spirits
+to higher music. It therefore comes instructing us. Let us enter
+ourselves as pupils in the school of God's love. Let us lay aside our
+own notions of the course of study; let us submit ourselves to be led
+and taught; let us be prepared for any lessons that may be given from
+the blackboard of sorrow: let us be so assured of the inexhaustible
+tenacity of His love as to dare to trust Him, though He slay us. And let
+us look forward to that august moment when He will give us a reason for
+all life's discipline, with a smile that shall thrill our souls with
+ecstasy, and constrain sorrow and sighing to flee away forever.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=October 28th.=
+
+      _Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He
+      will give it you. John xvi. 23._
+
+Prayer must be based upon promise, but, thank God, His promises are
+always broader than our prayers! No fear of building inverted pyramids
+here, for Jesus Christ is the foundation.--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=October 29th.=
+
+      _He riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments;
+      and took a towel, and girded Himself. After that He
+      poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the
+      disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
+      wherewith He was girded. John xiii. 4, 5._
+
+Acts are common and mean because they are ordinarily expressive of the
+common and mean thoughts of men. Let us not accuse the acts that make up
+our daily life of meanness, but our ignoble souls that reveal themselves
+so unworthily through those acts. The same act may successively mount up
+through every intermediate stage from the depth of unworthiness to a
+transcendent height of excellence, according to the soul that is
+manifested by it. One of the glorious ends of our Lord's incarnation was
+that He might propitiate us with the details of life, so that we should
+not disdain these as insignificant, but rather disdain ourselves for our
+inability to make these details interpreters of a noble nature. Oh, let
+us then look with affectionateness and gratitude upon the daily details
+of life, seeing the sanctifying imprint of the hand of Jesus upon them
+all!--_George Bowen._
+
+
+=October 30th.=
+
+      _He placed . . . cherubims, and a flaming sword . . .
+      to keep the way of the tree of life. Gen. iii. 24._
+
+      _Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they
+      may have right to the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 14._
+
+How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last page of the
+Revelation should come bending round to touch the first page of Genesis.
+The history of man began with angels with frowning faces and flaming
+swords barring the way to the Tree of Life. It ends with the guard of
+cherubim withdrawn; or rather, perhaps, sheathing their swords and
+becoming guides to the no longer forbidden fruit, instead of being its
+guards. That is the Bible's grand symbolical way of saying that all
+between--the sin, the misery, the death--is a parenthesis. God's purpose
+is not going to be thwarted. The end of His majestic march through
+history is to be men's access to the Tree of Life, from which, for the
+dreary ages--that are but as a moment in the great eternities--they were
+barred out by their sin,--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=October 31st.=
+
+      _That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
+      glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
+      revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your
+      understanding being enlightened. Eph. i. 17, 18._
+
+We were coming down a mountain in Switzerland one evening, when a black
+thunder-storm blotted out the day, and all things were suddenly plunged
+into darkness. We could only dimly see the narrow, dusty footpaths, and
+the gloomy sides that were swallowed up in deeper gloom. What, then, of
+the majesty all about us, heights, and depths, and wonders? All was
+darkness. Then came the lightning--not flashes, but the blazing of the
+whole sky, incessant, and on every side. What recesses of glory we gazed
+into! What marvels of splendor shone out of the darkness!
+
+Think how with us, in us, is One who comes to make the common, dusty
+ways of life resplendent, illuminating our dull thoughts by the light of
+the glory of God; clearing the vision of the soul, and then revealing
+the greatness of the salvation that is ours in Christ.--_Mark Guy
+Pearse._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: November]
+
+
+=November 1st.=
+
+      _Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the
+      midst. John viii. 9._
+
+Alone with Jesus! What a sweet and holy spot! What a blessed refuge to
+which the soul may betake itself from the charges of Satan, the
+accusations of the world, and the sorrows of life! Sweet spot for the
+heart to unfold itself, to tell its hidden tale in the ear of Infinite
+love, tenderness, and compassion!
+
+Alone with Jesus! How different a front would Christianity present to
+the world if the Lord's people were oftener there! What humility, and
+gentleness, and love, would characterize all their dealings! What
+holiness stamped on the very brow, that all might read! What few
+judgments passed on others, how many more on ourselves! What calmness
+and resignation and joyful submission to all the Lord's dealings!
+
+Be much "alone with Jesus!" Then will the passage to glory be one of
+sunshine, whether it be through the portals of the grave or through the
+clouds of heaven.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=November 2nd.=
+
+      _Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence
+      is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are
+      pleasures for evermore. Psa. xvi. 11._
+
+The man who walks along the path of life lives in the presence of the
+joy-giving God. Just in so far as he is true to that path of life, and
+wanders neither to the right hand nor to the left, his joy becomes
+deeper, nay! he becomes partaker of that very fullness of joy in which
+God Himself lives, and moves, and has His being. And while such is his
+experience in the midst of all the trials of life, he has also the
+privilege of looking forward to grander things yet in store for him,
+when that higher world shall be reached, and the shadows of time have
+passed away forever. "At Thy right hand," exclaims the psalmist, "there
+are pleasures for evermore."--_W. Hay Aitken._
+
+
+=November 3rd.=
+
+      _Be clothed with humility. 1 Pet. v. 5._
+
+Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more
+officers than men? We need more of the rank and file, who are willing to
+march anywhere, and to do the lowliest of tasks. We shall succeed in
+doing greater things when we are all of us willing to be subject. It is
+the bayonet rather than the gold lace which is wanted when the enemy is
+to be subdued.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=November 4th.=
+
+      _Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold,
+      Esau came, and with him four hundred men. Gen. xxxiii.
+      1._
+
+Do not lift up your eyes and look for Esaus. Those who look for troubles
+will not be long without finding trouble to look at. Lift them
+higher--to Him from whom our help cometh. Then you will be able to meet
+your troubles with an unperturbed spirit. Those who have seen the face
+of God need not fear the face of man that shall die. To have power with
+God is to have power over all the evils that threaten us.--_F. B.
+Meyer._
+
+
+=November 5th.=
+
+      _Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
+      flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of
+      God. 2 Cor. vii. 1._
+
+The Tree of Life, according to some of the old rabbinical legends,
+lifted its branches, by an indwelling motion, high above impure hands
+that were stretched to touch them; and until our hands are cleansed
+through faith in Jesus Christ, its richest fruit hangs unreachable,
+golden above our heads. The fullness of the life of heaven is only
+granted to those who, drawing near Jesus Christ by faith on earth, have
+thereby cleansed themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
+spirit.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=November 6th.=
+
+      _The pillar of the cloud went from before their face,
+      and stood behind them. Ex. xiv. 19._
+
+It is not always guidance that we most need. Many of our dangers come
+upon us from behind. They are stealthy, insidious, assaulting us when we
+are unaware of their nearness. The tempter is cunning and shrewd. He
+does not meet us full front. It is a comfort to know that Christ comes
+behind us when it is there we need the protection.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=November 7th.=
+
+      _Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
+      transgressions, Thou shall purge them away. Psa. lxv.
+      3._
+
+There is much earnest religion that lives in the dreary compass of these
+first four words, "Iniquities prevail against me," and never gets a
+glimpse beyond it. But do not put a full stop there. Fetch in One who
+can help. "As for our transgressions, THOU shalt purge them away." The
+moment we bring the Lord in, that moment defeat is turned to triumphant
+deliverance!
+
+Write that up in golden letters--THOU! And do not find in this word only
+a trembling hope, or a wondering wish. Listen to its full
+assurance--THOU SHALT!
+
+There is but one result that can warrant the agony of Calvary; there is
+but one result that can satisfy either our blessed Savior or ourselves;
+and that is our being conquerors over sin.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=November 8th.=
+
+      _Speaking the truth in love. Eph. iv. 15._
+
+The best way of eradicating error is to publish and practice truth.--_W.
+Arnot._
+
+
+=November 9th.=
+
+      _So he arose, and went to Zarephath. 1 Kings xvii.
+      10._
+
+Let it be equally said of you to whatever duty the Lord may call you
+away, "He arose and went." Be the way ever so laborious or dangerous,
+still arise, like Elijah, and go. Go cheerfully, in faith, keeping your
+heart quietly dependent on the Lord, and in the end you will surely
+behold and sing of His goodness. Though tossed on a sea of troubles you
+may anchor on the firm foundation of God, which standeth sure. You have
+for your security His exceeding great and precious promises, and may say
+with the psalmist, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
+disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him who
+is the health of my countenance, and my God."--_F. W. Krummacher._
+
+
+=November 10th.=
+
+      _A daily rate for every day. 2 Kings xxv. 30._
+
+The acts of breathing which I performed yesterday will not keep me alive
+to-day; I must continue to breathe afresh every moment, or animal life
+ceases. In like manner yesterday's grace and spiritual strength must be
+renewed, and the Holy Spirit must continue to breathe on my soul from
+moment to moment in order to my enjoying the consolations, and to my
+working the works of God.--_Toplady._
+
+
+=November 11th.=
+
+      _And when the vessel that he made of the clay was
+      marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again
+      another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
+      it. Jer. xviii. 4. (R. V.)_
+
+God's fairest, highest place of service in the land that lies beyond
+will be filled by the men and women who have been broken upon the wheel
+on earth.--_G. Campbell Morgan._
+
+
+=November 12th.=
+
+      _Examine yourselves. 2 Cor. xiii. 5._
+
+If your state be good, searching into it will give you that comfort of
+it. If your state be bad, searching into it cannot make it worse; nay,
+it is the only way to make it better, for conversion begins with
+conviction.--_Bishop Hopkins._
+
+
+=November 13th.=
+
+      _Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Josh. xxiv.
+      15._
+
+CHOICE AND SERVICE--these were demanded of the Israelites; these are
+demanded of you, these only. Choice and service--in these are the whole
+of life.--_Mark Hopkins._
+
+
+=November 14th.=
+
+      _Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all
+      generations. Psa. xc. 1._
+
+You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You may gather around him a
+chorus of the choicest birds; you may give him a perch on the goodliest
+pine; you may charge winged messengers to bring him choicest dainties;
+but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lordly wings, and with his eye
+on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away to his own ancestral halls amid
+the munitions of rocks and the wild music of tempest and waterfall.
+
+The soul of man, in its eagle soarings, will rest with nothing short of
+the Rock of Ages. Its ancestral halls are the halls of heaven. Its
+munitions of rocks are the attributes of God. The sweep of its majestic
+flight is Eternity! "Lord, THOU hast been our dwelling place in all
+generations!"--_Macduff._
+
+
+=November 15th.=
+
+      _He hath said. Heb. xiii. 5._
+
+If we can only grasp these words of faith, we have an all-conquering
+weapon in our hand. What doubt is there that will not be slain by this
+two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a
+deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God's covenant? "He hath
+said!" Yes; whether for delight in our quietude, or for strength in our
+conflict, "He hath said!" must be our daily resort.
+
+Since "He hath said" is the source of all wisdom, and the fountain of
+all comfort, let it dwell in you richly, as "a well of water, springing
+up unto everlasting life." So shall you grow healthy, strong, and happy,
+in the divine life.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=November 16th.=
+
+      _Not I, but Christ liveth in me. Gal. ii. 20._
+
+The wonder of the life in Jesus is this--and you will find it so, and
+you have found it so, if you have ever taken your New Testament and
+tried to make it the rule of your daily life--that there is not a single
+action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you
+will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ,
+if He were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those
+circumstances and with the material upon which you are called to act.
+The soul that takes in Jesus' word, the soul that through the words of
+Jesus enters into the very person of Jesus, the soul that knows Him as
+its daily presence and its daily law--it never hesitates.--_Phillips
+Brooks._
+
+
+=November 17th.=
+
+      _Who is my neighbor? Luke x. 29._
+
+"Who is thy neighbor?" It is the sufferer, wherever, whoever, whatsoever
+he be. Wherever thou hearest the cry of distress, wherever thou seest
+anyone brought across thy path by the chances and changes of life (that
+is, by the Providence of God), whom it is in thy power to help--he,
+stranger or enemy though he be--_he_ is thy neighbor.--_A. P. Stanley._
+
+
+=November 18th.=
+
+      _He which stablisheth us . . . in Christ, and hath
+      anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and
+      given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor.
+      i. 21, 22._
+
+When a Christian is "sealed" by the Holy Ghost, "sealed" as the property
+of his Master, there will be no need to ask, "Whose image and
+superscription is this" upon the "sealed" one? The King's, of course.
+Anyone can see the image.
+
+Of what use is a "seal" if it cannot be seen?
+
+Is the King's image visibly, permanently, stamped upon us? It is on
+every Spirit-filled, "sealed" believer.--_John McNeil._
+
+
+=November 19th.=
+
+      _They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the
+      hand of Zerubbabel. Zech. iv. 10._
+
+It is joy to the Christian to know that the plummet is now in the hands
+of our great Zerubbabel, and that when He comes forth, the world's
+misrule shall be over. The false standards and false estimates of men
+shall be swept away. The standards of "expediency," of "conscience," of
+"every man thinking as he likes, if he is only _sincere_"--these, and
+all similar refuges of lies shall be like a spider's web. The measure of
+all things will be Christ, and Christ the Measurer of all things.
+
+How everything will be reversed! What a turning upside down of all that
+now exists!
+
+Blessed day, and longed for--the world's great jubilee, the earth's
+long-looked-for Sabbath, groaning creation's joy, and nature's calm
+repose! Who would not cry, "Come, Lord Jesus, and end this troubled
+dream! Shatter the shadows of the long, dark night of sin and sorrow,
+sighing and tears, despair and death!"--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=November 20th.=
+
+      _In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
+      good cheer; I have overcome the world. John xvi. 33._
+
+Tribulation is God's threshing--not to destroy us, but to get what is
+good, heavenly, and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong,
+earthly, and fleshly. Nothing less than blows of pain will do this. The
+evil clings so to the good, the golden wheat of goodness in us is so
+wrapped up in the strong chaff of the old life that only the heavy flail
+of suffering can produce the separation.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=November 21st.=
+
+      _I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
+      saying . . . Write. Rev. i. 10, 11._
+
+It is very sweet to note that a voice from heaven said to John, "Write."
+Does not that voice come to us? Are there not those who would taste the
+joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection? Are
+there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of
+past joys, when we were poor as they are now? Nay, could not some, who
+read these plain words, place inside the envelope something bearing
+their signature which would make the widow's heart dance for joy?
+
+What is our pen doing? Is it adding joy to other men's lives? If so,
+then angels may tune their harps when we sit at our desk. They are sent
+to minister to the heirs of salvation, and would be glad to look upon
+our pen as writing music for them to sing, because what we write makes
+their client's joy to be full.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=November 22nd.=
+
+      _Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6._
+
+We should ever bear in mind that the discipline of our heavenly Father's
+hand is to be interpreted in the light of our Father's countenance; and
+the deep mysteries of His moral government to be contemplated through
+the medium or His tender love.--_Selected._
+
+
+=November 23rd.=
+
+      _Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.
+      1 Thess. v. 24._
+
+Earthly faithfulness is possible only by the reception of heavenly
+gifts. As surely as every leaf that grows is mainly water that the plant
+has got from the clouds, and carbon that it has got out of the
+atmosphere, so surely will all our good be mainly drawn from heaven and
+heaven's gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal that you put upon
+your fire contains in itself sunbeams that have been locked up for all
+these millenniums that have passed since it waved green in the forest,
+so certainly does every good deed embody in itself gifts from above. And
+no man is pure except by impartation; and every good thing and every
+perfect thing cometh from the Father of lights.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=November 24th.=
+
+      _Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col.
+      iii. 16._
+
+Remember your life is to be a singing life. This world is God's grand
+cathedral for you. You are to be one of God's choristers, and there is
+to be a continual eucharistic sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving going
+up from your heart, with which God shall be continually well pleased.
+And there should be not only the offering of the lips, but the surrender
+of the life with joy. Yes, with _joy_, and not with _constraint_. Every
+faculty of our nature should be presented to Him in gladsome service,
+for the Lord Jehovah is my song as well as my strength.--_W. Hay
+Aitken._
+
+
+=November 25th.=
+
+      _Call to remembrance the former days. Heb. x. 32._
+
+_The former days_--times of trial, conflict, discouragement, temptation.
+Did we oftener call these to remembrance, with how much more delight
+would we make the covert of God's faithfulness our refuge, exclaiming
+with the psalmist, "Because Thou hast been my help, therefore in the
+shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice."--_R. Fuller._
+
+
+=November 26th.=
+
+      _The Lord . . . thy habitation. Psa. xci. 9._
+
+We go home without arrangement. We plan our visits, and then go home
+because they are over. Duty, want, a host of things, lead us forth
+elsewhere; but the heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he
+whose thoughts pass up to God, not because they are driven like a
+fisherman's craft swept by the fierceness of the storm, not because they
+are forced by want or fear, not because they are led by the hand of
+duty, but because God is in his habitation and his home. Loosed from
+other things, the thoughts go home for rest.
+
+In God the blessed man finds the love that welcomes. There is the sunny
+place. There care is loosed and toil forgotten. There is the joyous
+freedom, the happy calm, the rest, and renewing of our strength--at home
+with God.--_Mark Guy Pearse._
+
+
+=November 27th.=
+
+      _These have turned the world upside down. Acts xvii.
+      6._
+
+      _None of these things move me. Acts xx. 24._
+
+The men that move the world are the ones who do not let the world move
+them.--_Selected._
+
+
+=November 28th.=
+
+      _He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
+      that shrank. Gen. xxxii. 32._
+
+Whatever it is that enables a soul, whom God designs to bless, to stand
+out against Him, God will touch. It may be the pride of wealth, or of
+influence, or of affection; but it will not be spared--God will touch
+it. It may be something as _natural_ as a sinew; but if it robs a man of
+spiritual blessing God will touch it. It may be as _small_ a thing as a
+sinew; but its influence in making a man strong in his resistance of
+blessing will be enough to condemn it--and God will touch it. And
+beneath that touch it will shrink and shrivel, and you will limp to the
+end of life.
+
+Remember that the sinew never shrinks save beneath the touch of the
+angel hand--the touch of tender love.--_F. B. Meyer._
+
+
+=November 29th.=
+
+      _With God all things are possible. Mark x. 27._
+
+Unbelief says, "How can such and such things be?" It is full of "hows";
+but faith has one great answer to the ten thousand "hows," and that
+answer is--GOD!--_C. H. M._
+
+
+=November 30th.=
+
+      _Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath
+      said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them. 2 Cor.
+      vi. 16._
+
+These temples were reared for Him. Let Him fill them so completely that,
+like the oriental temple of glass in the ancient legend, the temple
+shall not be seen, but only the glorious sunlight, which not only shines
+into it, but through it, and the transparent walls are all unseen.--_A.
+B. Simpson._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DECEMBER]
+
+
+=December 1st.=
+
+      _Without Christ. Eph. ii. 12._
+
+Without a hope to cheer, a Pilot to steer, a Friend to counsel, grace to
+sustain, heaven to welcome us, and God to console!--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 2nd.=
+
+      _When I am weak, then am I strong. 2 Cor. xii. 10._
+
+This is God's way. We advance by going backwards, we become strong by
+becoming weak, we become wise by being fools.--_F. Whitfield._
+
+
+=December 3rd.=
+
+      _Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
+      Ghost. 2 Pet. i. 21._
+
+The Bible is the writing of the living God. Each letter was penned with
+an almighty finger. Each word in it dropped from the everlasting lips.
+Each sentence was dictated by the Holy Spirit. Albeit that Moses was
+employed to write his histories with his fiery pen, God guided that pen.
+It may be that David touched his harp, and let sweet psalms of melody
+drop from his fingers; but God moved his hands over the living strings
+of his golden harp. Solomon sang canticles of love and gave forth words
+of consummate wisdom; but God directed his lips, and made the preacher
+eloquent. If I follow the thundering Nahum, when his horses plough the
+waters; or Habakkuk, when he sees the tents of Cushan in affliction; if
+I read Malachi, when the earth is burning like an oven; if I turn to the
+smooth page of John, who tells of love; or the rugged chapters of Peter,
+who speaks of fire devouring God's enemies; if I turn aside to Jude, who
+launches forth anathemas upon the foes of God--everywhere I find God
+speaking; it is God's voice, not man's; the words are God's words; the
+words of the Eternal, the Invisible, the Almighty, the Jehovah of ages.
+This Bible is God's Bible; and when I see it, I seem to hear a voice
+springing up from it, saying, "I am the Book of God. Man, read me. I am
+God's writing. Study my page, for I was penned by God. Love me, for He
+is my Author, and you will see Him visible and manifest
+everywhere."--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 4th.=
+
+      _They all forsook Him, and fled. Mark xiv. 50._
+
+Separation never comes from His side.--_J. Hudson Taylor._
+
+
+=December 5th.=
+
+      _Belshazzar the king made a great feast. Dan. v. 1._
+
+There was one Guest not invited, but He came, and the work of His finger
+glowed upon the wall.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 6th.=
+
+      _He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Prov.
+      xi. 25._
+
+The effective life and the receptive life are one. No sweep of arm that
+does some work for God but harvests also some more of the truth of God,
+and sweeps it into the treasury of life.--_Phillips Brooks._
+
+
+=December 7th.=
+
+      _And they came unto Him, bringing one sick of the
+      palsy. Mark ii. 3._
+
+Had it not been for the palsy, this man might never have seen
+Christ!--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 8th.=
+
+      _Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
+      benefits . . . who crowneth thee with loving kindness
+      and tender mercies. Ps. ciii. 2, 4._
+
+We talk about the telescope of faith, but I think we want even more the
+microscope of watchful and grateful love. Apply this to the little bits
+of our daily lives, in the light of the Spirit, and how wonderfully they
+come out!--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
+
+
+=December 9th.=
+
+      _When thou passest through the waters I will be with
+      thee. Is. xliii. 2._
+
+God's presence in the trial is much better than exemption from the
+trial. The sympathy of His heart with us is sweeter far than the power
+of His hand for us.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 10th.=
+
+      _Then shall ye discern between the righteous and the
+      wicked. Mal. iii. 18._
+
+Said Anne of Austria to Cardinal Richelieu: "God does not pay at the end
+of every week, but He pays at last!"--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 11th.=
+
+      _What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeared
+      for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv.
+      14._
+
+        "Only one life; 'twill soon be past--
+        And only what's done for Christ will last."--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 12th.=
+
+      _He (Jesus) . . . looked up to heaven. Mark vi. 41._
+
+In working for God, first look to heaven. It is a grand plan. Over and
+over again our Lord Jesus Christ looked to heaven and said, "Father."
+Let us imitate Him; although standing on the earth, let us have our
+conversation in heaven. Before you go out, if you would feed the world,
+if you would be a blessing in the midst of spiritual dearth and famine,
+lift up your head to heaven. Then your very face will shine, your very
+garments will smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory
+palaces where you have been with your God and Savior. There will be
+stamped upon you the dignity and power of the service of the Most High
+God.--_McNeil._
+
+
+=December 13th.=
+
+      _The disciples were called Christians first in
+      Antioch. Acts xi. 26._
+
+This name suggests that the clear impression made by our character, as
+well as by our words, should be that we belong to Jesus Christ. He
+should manifestly be the center and the guide, the impulse and the
+pattern, the strength and reward, of our lives. We are Christians. That
+should be plain for all folks to see, whether we speak or be silent.
+
+Is it so with you?--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=December 14th.=
+
+      _Having therefore these promises. 2 Cor. vii. 1._
+
+The forests in summer days are full of birds' nests. They are hidden
+among the leaves. The little birds know where they are; and when a storm
+arises, or when night draws on, they fly, each to his own nest. So the
+promises of God are hidden in the Bible, like nests in the great
+forests; and thither we should fly in any danger or alarm, hiding there
+in our soul's nest until the storm be overpast. There are no castles in
+this world so impregnable as the words of Christ.--_J. R. Miller._
+
+
+=December 15th.=
+
+      _Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the
+      greatest of these is love. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. (R. V.)_
+
+Love is the greatest thing that God can give us: for Himself is Love;
+and it is the greatest thing we can give to God: for it will give
+ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours.--_Jeremy Taylor._
+
+
+=December 16th.=
+
+     _He (Thomas) . . . said, Except I shall see . . . I
+     will not believe. . . . Jesus . . . said . . . Be not
+     faithless, but believing. John xx. 25, 27._
+
+Every doubt in the heart of a Christian is a dishonor done to the Word
+of God, and the sacrifice of Christ.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 17th.=
+
+      _Lot . . . pitched his tent toward Sodom. Gen. xiii.
+      12._
+
+And soon Lot moved into Sodom; and before long Sodom moved into
+him.--_Theodore Cuyler._
+
+
+=December 18th.=
+
+      _Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Psa. xix. 12._
+
+The world needs men who are free from secret faults. Most men are free
+from gross, public faults.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 19th.=
+
+      _A hearer of the word . . . a doer of the work. Jas. i.
+      23, 25._
+
+Religion may be learned on Sunday, but it is lived in the week-day's
+work. The torch of religion may be lit in the church, but it does its
+burning in the shop and on the street. Religion seeks its life in
+prayer, but it lives its life in deeds. It is planted in the closet, but
+it does its growing out in the world. It plumes itself for flight in
+songs of praise, but its actual flights are in works of love. It
+resolves and meditates on faithfulness as it reads its Christian lesson
+in the Book of Truth, but "faithful is that faithful does." It puts its
+armor on in all the aids and helps of the sanctuary as its
+dressing-room, but it combats for the right, the noble, and the good in
+all the activities of practical existence, and its battle ground is the
+whole broad field of life.--_John Doughty._
+
+
+=December 20th.=
+
+      _Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. James iv.
+      14._
+
+"To-morrow" is the devil's great ally--the very Goliath in whom he
+trusts for victory. "Now" is the stripling sent forth against him. . . .
+The world will freely agree to be Christians to-morrow if Christ will
+permit them to be worldly to-day.--_William Arnot._
+
+
+=December 21st.=
+
+      _The sea wrought, and was tempestuous. Jonah i. 11._
+
+Sin in the soul is like Jonah in the ship. It turns the smoothest water
+into a tempestuous sea.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 22nd.=
+
+      _Be not doubtful, but followers of them also, through
+      faith and patience, inherit the promises. Heb. vi.
+      12._
+
+God makes a promise. Faith believes it. Hope anticipates it. Patience
+quietly awaits it.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 23rd.=
+
+      _Go and sit down in the lowest room. Luke xiv. 10._
+
+He who is willing to take the lowest place will always find sitting
+room; there is no great crush for the worst places. There is nothing
+like the jostling at the back there is at the front; so if we would be
+comfortable, we shall do well to keep behind.--_Thomas Champness._
+
+
+=December 24th.=
+
+      _Continue in prayer. Col. iv. 2._
+
+Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children, who
+knock at their neighbor's houses and then run away; we often knock at
+heaven's door and then run off into the spirit of the world; instead of
+waiting for entrance and answer, we act as if we were afraid of having
+our prayers answered.--_Williams._
+
+
+=December 25th.=
+
+      _A multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and
+      saying, Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 13, 14._
+
+Angels had been present on many august occasions, and they had joined in
+many a solemn chorus to the praise of their Almighty Creator. They were
+present at the creation: "The morning stars sang together, and all the
+sons of God shouted for joy." They had seen many a planet fashioned
+between the palms of Jehovah, and wheeled by His eternal hands through
+the infinitude of space. They had sung solemn songs over many a world
+which the Great One had created. We doubt not, they had often chanted,
+"Blessing and honor, and glory, and majesty, and power, and dominion,
+and might, be unto Him that sitteth on the throne," manifesting Himself
+in the work of creation. I doubt not, too, that their songs had gathered
+force through ages. As when first created, their first breath was song,
+so when they saw God create new worlds, then their song received another
+note; they rose a little higher in the gamut of adoration. But this
+time, when they saw God stoop from His throne and become a babe hanging
+upon a woman's breast, they lifted their notes higher still; and
+reaching to the uttermost stretch of angelic music, they gained the
+highest notes of the divine scale of praise and they sang, "Glory to God
+_in the highest_," for higher in goodness they felt God could not go.
+Thus their highest praise they gave to Him in the highest act of His
+Godhead.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 26th.=
+
+      _God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of
+      our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14._
+
+The cross is the great center of God's moral universe! To this center
+God ever pointed, and the eye of faith ever looked forward, until the
+Savior came. And now we must ever turn to that cross as the center of
+all our blessing, and the basis of all our worship, both on earth and in
+heaven--in time and throughout all eternity.
+
+
+=December 27th.=
+
+      _He ever liveth. Heb. vii. 25._
+
+It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men
+come and go. Leaders, teachers, thinkers, speak and work for a season,
+and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives.
+They are lights kindled, and therefore, sooner or later quenched, but He
+is the true Light from which they draw all their brightness, and He
+shines for evermore.--_Alex. McLaren._
+
+
+=December 28th.=
+
+      _The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James
+      iv. 4._
+
+It is like the ivy with the oak. The ivy may give the oak a grand,
+beautiful appearance, but all the while it is feeding on its vitals. Are
+we compromising with the enemies of God? Are we being embraced by the
+world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause? This may add to us in
+the world's estimation, but our strength becomes lost.--_Denham Smith._
+
+
+=December 29th.=
+
+      _She (Hannah) . . . prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore
+      . . . she spake in her heart. 1 Sam. i. 10, 13._
+
+For real business at the mercy-seat give me a home-made prayer, a prayer
+that comes out of the depths of my heart, not because I invented it, but
+because God the Holy Ghost, put it there, and gave it such living force
+that I could not help letting it out. Though your words are broken, and
+your sentences disconnected, if your desires are earnest, if they are
+like coals of juniper, burning with a vehement flame, God will not mind
+how they find expression. If you have no words, perhaps you will pray
+better without them than with them. There are prayers that break the
+backs of words; they are too heavy for any human language to
+carry.--_Spurgeon._
+
+
+=December 30th.=
+
+      _Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi.
+      8._
+
+Noah found grace in the same way that Paul obtained mercy (1 Tim. 1:
+16), namely, by mercy's taking hold of him.--_Selected._
+
+
+=December 31st.=
+
+      _Which hope we have as an anchor to the soul. Heb. vi.
+      19._
+
+Anchor to the throne of God, and then shorten the rope!--_Selected._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+
+Page 4, there was a reference "11:10" listed under Ephesians. As
+Ephesians doesn't have eleven chapters, the transcriber checked page 78.
+Ephesians 2, written as ii, is on page 78 and is already listed under
+Ephesians. The reference to 11:10 being on page 78 was removed.
+
+Page 4, "I." added to "Thessalonians".
+
+Pge 24, "regetting" changed to "regretting" (by regretting what is)
+
+Page 63, "Jnue" changed to "June" (June 22nd)
+
+Page 64, "closee" changed to "closer" (by closer following)
+
+Page 110, "porals" changed to "portals" (portals of the grave)
+
+
+
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