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will be drawn closer to our Lord.. .. When we lose most of our earthly possessions which we have loved, we wonder why God allowed that disaster to enter our lives. . . . If the loss of our riches will keep us close to the Master, let us forget all those things which the eye alone can feast upon, and let us walk ever nearer to Him. WS^The Pilot. “His compassions fail nof’ (Lam. 3:22). The Lord was ever pitiful with the faint hearted, with those whose light was burn ing only dimly; and He ever sought, by a tender and reinforcing sympathy, to nurse them back again to a bright and passionate spiritual life. My brethren, don’t you think this is a grace of which we have peculiar need today—tenderness toward failures? Is it not the special equipment of the Chris tian ministry—a disposition which seeks to heal those who are bruised? , . . Brethren, be it ours to startle and to win the world by the absence in our life of pitilessness and. harshness, and all selfish severity. Be it ours to win our spiritual conquest by a consistent and confiding hopefulness. — J . H. J ow ett . Personal acquaintance with God shows itself in separation. . . . Arguers against obeying the call of God will arise in the shape of country and kindred, and if you listen to them you will soon dull your ears to God’s call and become the dullest, most commonplace Christian imaginable, because you have no courage in your faith; you have seen and heard, but have not gone on. If you accept sympathy from those who have not heard the call of God, it will so blunt your own sense of His call that you become useless to Him. Every saint must stand out absolutely alone. Beware lest the sympathy of others competes with God for the throne of your life. — O sw ald C h a m b e r s . AUGUST 6 W hen In stru ctio n an d E xam ple A g ree “Thou [Timothy] therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ . . . I [Paul] endure all things for the elecfs sake" (2 Tim. 2:3, 10). When the exhortation of the teacher is backed by the teacher’s own example in obedience, the pupil may well heed the instruction. Paul had a right to say em phatically to Timothy, “Be not thou there fore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,” because the apostle could add, “I AUGUST 4 T enderness AUGUST 5 S aints Standing A lone “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, . . . unto a land that I will show thee” (Gen. 12:1).
AUGUST 1 H is B rook “And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up" (1 Ki. 17:7). Beloved, hath thy brook run dry ? Ah, yes, the brook of earth’s supply! Though far and fair its water gleam, And bright and boundless seems its stream, Full soon its waters fail and flee, And naught be left to comfort thee I But hush thy heart’s despairing cry . . . Beloved, hath His brook run dry? His brook run dry? The stream that flows With heaven’s balm for all earth’s woes? His brook run dry? That boundless wave That leaps to heal and bless and save? His brook run dry? That mighty flood, The river of redeeming blood? O soul, rejoice! No longer sigh! God’s brook of love hath not run dryl —E. M argaret C la r k so n . Since the first hour in which goodness came into conflict with evil, it has never ceased to be true in spiritual experience, that Satan hinders us. If we toil in the field, he seeks to break the ploughshare; if we build the wall, he labors to cast down the stones; if we would serve God in suffering or in conflict, everywhere Satan hinders us. . . , Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk guardedly in the path of obedience. We are not to enter the thicket in search of the lion. This lion may cross our path, or leap upon us from the thicket; but we have nothing to do with hunting him. He that meeteth with him, even though he winneth the day, will find it a stern struggle. . . . Our Saviour, who had ex perience of what temptation meant, thus earnestly admonished His disciples: “Pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” — C h a r les H addon S purgeon . AUGUST 2 E ntering N ot Into T em p tatio n “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1 Cor. 10:13). "And we know that all things work to gether for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28). What comfort the precious Word of God holds for troubled souls! . . . The friends of this world may forsake and for get us, yet He abideth faithful. He is the Friend who never fails. It may be accord ing to His great plan that through the loss of what we believed to be a friend here, we AUGUST 3 H is W ay
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