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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour + +Author: Various + +Editor: Dwight L. Moody + +Release Date: September 2, 2011 [EBook #37292] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOUGHTS FOR THE QUIET HOUR *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<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="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><br /> +Fleming H. Revell Company<br /> +<span class='small'>CHICAGO : NEW YORK : 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'> </td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>31,</td><td align='right'> <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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>45,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>32,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>26,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>13,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>18,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>31,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>36,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>37,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>45,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>39,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>25,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>27,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>10,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>24,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>7,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>9,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>12,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>3,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>15,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>16,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>17,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>8,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>19,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>22,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>2,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>4,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </td><td align='left'>23,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>21,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </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'> </td><td align='left'>11,</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'> </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'> </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 . . . and present thyself . . . 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.—<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.—<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,"—<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."—<i>G. Bowen.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />January 5th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord is my . . . 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—nay, he hath fetched heaven down to earth, +and need not envy the angels now.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—right and wrong.—<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—"God"! What a standard—"His +riches in glory"! What a channel—"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.—<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.—<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. . . . 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."—<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,"—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!"—<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>.—<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.—Isa. xl. 31.</i></p></div> + +<p>This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being—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!—<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.—<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.—<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>.—<i>George Müller.</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.—<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.—<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.—<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—"<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!—<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 +piercèd 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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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>!—<i>George Müller.</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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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. . . . 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.—<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.—<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. . . . 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.—<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 . . . 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 . . . 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."—<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.—<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!—<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 . . . 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.—<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?". . . . +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!—<i>S. A. +Blackwood.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />February 13th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>All . . . 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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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!—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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. . . . +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.—<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. . . . 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."—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—only +far enough to discern Him and trace His footsteps. . . . +They who follow Christ, even through +darkness, will surely reach the Father.—<i>Henry Van +Dyke.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />February 28th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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—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.—<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 . . . 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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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."—<i>Bowen.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />March 9th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>When He cometh into the world, He saith,. . . 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.—<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—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?—<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.—<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—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—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 Cæsars 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—<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—it is infinitely too sublime—the idea of God!—<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?—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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!"—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!—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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.—<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.—<i>George Matheson.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />March 27th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A great multitude . . . 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>.—<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.—<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"—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>"—<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!—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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—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?—<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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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. . . . 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.</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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>Phillips Brooks.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />April 13th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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."—<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."—<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;">—<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.—<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.—<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>"—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.—<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />April 19th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood +of Jesus . . . 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.—<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 . . . 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.</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.—<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."—<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 . . . 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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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>.—<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.—<i>F. Whitfield.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />April 27th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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.—<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."—<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!"—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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?—<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!"—<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 . . . 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!—<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.—<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—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."—<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.—<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."—<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>. . . 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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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!—<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—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.—<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—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."—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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>—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>—nowhere +canst thou step outside His realm, nor in anything +get beyond His care and government. <i>Over all</i>—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.—<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.—<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"—his +<i>tongue</i>, and hence the exhortation, "Keep thy tongue +from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile"—his <i>ears</i>, +and hence the warning, "Cease, my son, to hear the +instruction that causeth to err"—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."—<i>Guthrie.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />May 27th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Whatsoever ye do, . . . 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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>F. +B. Meyer.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 2nd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>A fountain . . . 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.—<i>James Hamilton.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 3rd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I am black . . . 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.—<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>.—<i>Spurgeon.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 5th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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.—<i>W. Hay Aitken.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 6th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>Hall.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 10th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . 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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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—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.</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—living in the world, but not of it—as +oil, that may be mixed, but cannot be combined with +water.—<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 . . . 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 . . . 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.—<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—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."—<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 . . . 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.—<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.—<i>A. B. +Simpson.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />June 19th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Endure . . . 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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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>—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—the little things +of every day that are making or marring your future +life.—<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>—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>—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—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."—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>Mark Guy Pearse.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />July 3rd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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!. . . 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.—<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 . . . 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—all +petty worries, all crushing difficulties, all inability +to believe.—<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!—<i>Spurgeon.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />July 6th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Judas Iscariot . . . 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?—<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.—<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.—<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!"—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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?—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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,"—<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>"—<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—we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +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.—<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."—<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />July 22nd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>. . . 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.</i></p></div> + +<p>Only those who have struck the deepest note of +penitence can reach the highest note of praise.—<i>A. J. +Gordon.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />July 23rd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Blessed is the man . . . 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.—<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. . . . 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."—<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.—<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."—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>Alex. Whyte.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />August 2nd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He entered into one of the ships . . . and . . . 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—the Lord ever first, I following Him, +His goodness and mercy following me.—<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.—<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.—<i>F. B. Meyer.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />August 5th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Go in this thy might . . . 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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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. . . . 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.—<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—and all around us seems to lower.<br /> +We rise—and all the distant and the near<br /> +Stand forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.<br /> +We kneel—how weak: we rise—how full of power.<br /> +<br /> +Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong<br /> +Or others—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;">—<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.—<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. . . . 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.—<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."—<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—take alarm!—<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!"—<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.—<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.—<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.—<i>W. +Hay Aitken.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />August 20th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>By faith Noah . . . 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? . . . 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.—<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.—<i>J. B. Lowell.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />August 22nd.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He . . . 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—from +daily, hourly sin.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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—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!—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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."—<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.—<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—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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +strength, and, eagle-like, rise to greet the Sun.—<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.—<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—such hopes are powerful springs +of action.—<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—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.—<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.—<i>W. Hay +Aitken.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />September 10th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In the daytime . . . 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—the +vision of Thy love in the Cross. I need the light of +Thy fire "<i>all</i> the night."—<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.—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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.—<i>Selected.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />September 18th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Then spake Solomon . . . 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.—<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—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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—along your very way. In wind and rain, no +matter how it beats—it is only going hand in hand with +Him.—<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!—<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—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.—<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—to number not his years, but his +days. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day, are dangerously +prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.—<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.—<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.—<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—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<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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."—<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—"Said I not unto thee, if +thou wouldest believe, thou shouldst see the glory of +God."—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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!"—<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!"—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."—<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!—so as to be able to receive into your heart +the trooping angels of peace, and joy, and love, and +glory.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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>—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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—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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<i>Punshon.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />October 25th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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!—<i>George Bowen.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />October 30th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He placed . . . cherubims, and a flaming sword . . . 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—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,—<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—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.—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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—<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—<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.—<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.—<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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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>—these were demanded of the +Israelites; these are demanded of you, these only. +Choice and service—in these are the whole of life.—<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!"—<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.—<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—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.—<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—he, stranger or enemy though he be—<i>he</i> is thy +neighbor.—<i>A. P. Stanley.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />November 18th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>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.</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.—<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>"—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—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!"—<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—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.—<i>J. R. Miller.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />November 21st.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying +. . . 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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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>—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."—<i>R. +Fuller.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />November 26th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The Lord . . . 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—at home with +God.—<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.—<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—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—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—the touch of tender love.—<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—<span class="smcap">God</span>!—<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.—<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!—<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.—<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—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."—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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!—<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 . . . +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!—<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.—<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!"—<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—<br /> +And only what's done for Christ will last."—<i>Selected.</i><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='date'><br />December 12th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He (Jesus) . . . 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.—<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?—<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.—<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.—<i>Jeremy Taylor.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />December 16th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>He (Thomas) . . . said, Except I shall see . . . I will not believe. . . . +Jesus . . . said . . . 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.—<i>Selected.</i></p> + + +<div class='date'><br />December 17th.</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Lot . . . 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.—<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.—<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 . . . 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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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.—<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—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.—<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.—<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) . . . prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore . . . +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.—<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.—<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!—<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. 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