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that converts the life, making it divine at the center and fair at the circumference—that is the religion for us. We ask: “Which is the god who illumines the thick darkness that has gathered round the moral and mental nature of man?” - We inquire who is able to cheer us in our hours of bereavement and despair ; who is the true comforter of earth’s pain, the ever present sym pathizer with its sorrow—and we say: “Let Him be God.” Where, amid all the deities of earth, shall we find Him? Which of all the ancient and modern cults o,f philosophy, of science, of social improvement, or even of bare theology, is able to supply the deepest needs of our sinful, weary hearts? There is none to answer. The declaration of the Highest holds the field today as ever : “I am the LORD, and beside me there is no saviour.” Once convince Humanity of this fact, and infidelity and indif ference will trouble üs no more. m S eptember IS. "Helping together by prayer$¡—2 Cor. 1 :11. IT is so ?èasy to be a hinderer in the Lord’s vineyard. To be a fault-finding, captious, ,selfrassertiye member of the Church, demands no effort and calls for no self denial. Coldness, indif ference, and criticism are natural to most of us. Let us remem ber, however, that we are called, hot to hinder, but to help those who are set over us in thé Lord. They sorely need our sym pathy and our support. Their trials and difficulties are many, their burdens heavy, their disappointments sore. They:,are men of like passions with us. They have their own battles'to fight, their own griefs to bear, their own infirmities to endure, in addition to the care of the souls that have been committed to their charge. ' No man, perhaps, has greater need of the help of his brethren than the Christian minister; no one certainly has a greater claim to it than he. Theré are many .ways, in which this help can be bestowed, but there is none at oiice sq effectual and so within the reach of us all as that of intercession. If every member of the Church prayed for his Minister, there would be less unkindly criticism, and we should soon see showers of revival falling upon every hand. Moreover our own souls woüld share in the gracious outpouring and would become like watered gardens, for no man can pray for another without receiving rich blessing in his own heart and life. This form of 'service is at once a duty and a privilege ; the fact that it is so sadly neglected is largely responsible for the spiritual sterility which we profèss to mourn, but which we do so little to remove:,; S eptember 16. “The wilderness shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." ifSK sa. .35:1. GENERAL Gordon says of parts of the Sudan : “The feat ures of the ground are what they are in other countries. There are scrubby trees and stubby grasses, but no water, though there are watercourses. . Water these lands, and they would blossom as the rose.” Such is the condition of many Christian hearts; they are not flat, sandy plains, without any sign or possibility of life, but everything in them.is dry and stunted; without verdure, beauty, or fruit. They need the outpouring of that water of life which Christ àlone.is able to bestow. Let the soft, refreshing showers of the Holy Ghost fall upon them, and they, too, would blossom as the rose. The watercourses are there, but there is no water. Nor can human effort fill them with vivifying streams. No artificial irrigation is. possible. Only the Divine presence can make the wilderness like the Garden of Eden. That pres ence, that water, is at the disposal of us all. “Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye shall find.” The Holy Spirit is a gift “to none that ask denied,” and if our hearts are bare and barren, we
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