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ing to Thy word;” even though that word threatens to turn our lives into a Marah fountain of bitterness and pain. It will be but threatening after all; “His purposes will ripen fast, ' Unfolding every hour; The.bud may have a bitter taste, . But sweet will be the flower.” M S eptember 26. "Happy is he." —Prov. 14:21. Oh, tell us quickly the secret of his felicity! Do not keep us in- suspense, for happiness is the summum bonum of our heart’s desire. For this all men are striving every hour. For this they labor, for this they pray. All their energy and all their artifices are directed to this. That they may be happy, some men dissipate their strength, some men ruin their lives, and some men sell their souls. And with .what -meager results! How the bubbles that they pursue burst and leave them as ¿far from their object as ever. Wealth does not bring happiness', fame does not produce it. •Pleasure says: “It is not in me;” intellectual attain ments fail to bestow it; idleness knows it no t; ease groans for lack of it. The toiling and perspiring multitude, hewing out their cisterns which are to be full .of jby, discover that they are “broken cisterns, which ,can hold no water,” and pant at the end of their endeavors with the unslaked thirst of their dissat isfied hearts. “Happy is he!” Who is he, what is he, where does he dwell ? What (once more we cry in our eager anguish) is the secret of his happiness? The answer isi simplicity itself—he “trusteth in the LORD.” Maybe he is a beggar, maybe he is a king. Perchance he is as'wise as:’S'olomon; perchance he is as ignorant as a savage. He may be surrounded with luxury or he may dwell in a hovel. It matters not : he trusteth in the LORD, and THAT is happiness. Would we be happy too? We must imitate his example. S eptember 27. “The Father seeketh such to worship him" —Jno. 4 :23. SOME men can worship best in a building foursquare like a barn ; whitewashed, Spartan, bare. To others “The painted window’s dim, religious light,” the white robed choristers, the pealing organ and the chanted psalm offer the most fitting expression of their pious souls. God cares not which.. He Who made the barren desert and the purple mountain' top, Who listens to the chirp of the sparrow and delights in the song of the nightingale,, accepts alike the offering of the esthetic and the oblation of simplicity. What He does demand is that man should “worship him in spirit and in truth.” From such devotion, whether it rises from a Conventicle or a Cathedral, He will never turn His face away. We do wrong when we condemn our fellowmen because their methods of wor ship differ from our own. Puritanism is not necessarily piety; there is no idolatry inherent in the love of the gorgeous and the beautiful. The lifting up of holy hands amid the fretted aisles may be “as the evening sacrifice,”
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