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spiritual things can take effe^f and leave a lasting impression. People of the world often read in order not to think! But the child of God should not be afraid of doing hard thinking—along the lines of the Word of God. —E. Adams. 12. Using the Snuffers • “The shining light,, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” (Prov. 4:18). A condition of shining is that the snuffers be used on the wick,. The very act of consumption implies a charring o f the wick, which is coated today with such charred surface because it burned and shone yesterday ... . Your .life in Christ must be renewed day by day. It will not do to live on the experience of yesterday . . . New experiences only can prepare for fresh and more lu minous testimony.—A. T. Pierson. His Pledge “I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou Shalt be a blessing” (Gen. 12:2). We do not always feel this, any mpre than we feel anything which God calls us to believe; but He has promised, and He is faithful. Thou art a blessing, dear believing one—a blessing from God; aye, to those even from whom the call has separated you, and between whom and yourself there seems to be nothing but hopeless distance. In calling thee out, God pledged Himself to bless thee and make thee a blessing. —Robert McKilliam. 14. Joy from an Inner Cause ' “Restore unto me the joy of thy sal vation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit” (Psa. 51:12). There is na doubt whatever that only a pure heart within provides a radiant, godly countenance without . . . It was probably for this that David prayed when he cried out, “ Create in me a clean heart, O God.” From that he went on to pray, “Restore unto me thè Joy of thy salvation.” The two are linked together, for the joy of the Lord cannot abide in a life that is not possessed of “a right spirit.”—C. L. Laws. A Life of Love “Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him” (Psa. 45:10, 11). From many standpoints the Bible looks at our spiritual life. Sometimes it is as a life of faith, again as a life of holiness, evermore as a life of serv ice . . . but the highest and divinest view of it is a life of love . . . The Forty-Fifth PSalm is David’s song of 13. 15.
heavenly love and the divine Lover, and its tender call has reached many a Christian heart and called it, to a heav- eply betrothal.—A. B. Simpson. 16. Christ Born In Me -“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith” (Eph. 3:17). Oh, wonder of all wonders, That Christ, the Lord divine, Should make His humble dwelling In this poor heart of mine! Oh, matchless, gracious myst'ry—* The Lord of heav’n and earth In my poor contrite spirit May once again have birth. Oh, help me, Holy Spirit, That I in truth may be Filled with this mystic glory,- The Christ thus formed in me. May all my life and purpose ,His presence so reveal That other souls may through me The Saviour’s power feel. —Selected. 17. Learning Thoroughly “None of the men . . . shall see the land . . .‘ because they have not wholly followed me” (Num. 32:11). >\ How often God has dealt with us in respect to some lesson He requires us to learp . . . but we have not been thorough! He cannot yet write “whole hearted” acrofs our lives, and by many ways He is bringing' us to this. Perhaps it is by a series of disappointments, . , . or by wounded love, by sickness and suf fering, or possibly bereavement, and yet how slow we are to learn! Shall we not let Him have His way with us ? —W. Graham Scroggie. Perseverance in Prayer “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make interces sion for them” (Heb. 7:25). The strain” of the conflict . . . the suggestion of the devil to take things a little- easier, and many other similar temptations, tend to cause . . . relaxa tion in" the effort needful to carry on the work of God to victory. Our Lord’s continual, unwearied intercession before .the throne is a call to us to join Him ' in such prayer partnership as will de feat the aims of Satan, and crown the work of the cross with triumph. —Gordon B. Watt. 19. The Sentence of the Cross “Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my dis ciple” (Lk. 14:27). These uncompromising words stand forever true . . . What will the world say? What will even Christians say? These are questions to be faced, and it is well to face the crude fact that 18.
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