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If we are intensely interested in an ob ject or an individual, our petitions be come like living forces, and not only convey their wants to God, but in some sense convey God’s help back to them. May God so fill us today that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire! ‘—Days o f H eaven upon Earth. —o— June 1 —"I called him, but he gave me no answer" (Song of Sol. 5 :6 ). The Lord, when He has given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered His servants’ voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, but it has remained immov able as though it were rusted upon its hinges. Like Jeremiah, they have cried, “Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.” Thus have true saints continued long in patient waiting without reply, not because their prayers were not vehement, nor be cause they were unaccepted. We must be careful not to take delays in prayer for denials. God’s long-dated bills will be punctually honored; we must not suffer Satan to shake our confidence in the God of truth by pointing to our unanswered prayers. Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers —they are not blown away by the wind; they are treasured in the King’s archives. There is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. Tried believer, thy Lord hath a tear-bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which thy groan- •ings are numbered. By and by thy suit will prevail. Canst thou not be content to wait a little? Will not thy Lord’s time be better than thy time? By and by He will comfortably appear, to thy soul’s joy, and make thee put away the sackcloth and ashes of long waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition. — Spurgeon. —o— June 2 —“The slight trouble o f the pass ing hour results in a solid glory, past all comparison, fo r those o f us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen ; fo r the seen is transient, the unseen eternal" (2 Cor. 4:17, 18, Moffat’s Trans.). What was the outlook for the child of God? Ask Paul as he sits in the Mamer- tine prison, a deep dungeon with only a ray of light. He was there for three years, most of the time with a chain on his hand and a soldier by his side. I no tice that his face glows with a rapture, and as he writes his pen catches fire in the speed of its flight. “Blessed Apostle, what of the outcome?” “That is just what I am writing; ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, my departure is at hand; henceforth a crown.’ ” “Is that all you see—a crown? For I see a man waiting with a sword just .outside the city gate to take off your head. Do you hear anything in particular, Paul?” “I hear the welcome of innumerable harp ers, harping to welcome me Home.” That was the salvation which Paul had, and in the joy and light of which he steadily lived, and which, in God’s name, I com mend to you .—Cyrus D. Foss. The toils of the road will seem nothing, When we get to the end of the way.
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June 3 —“I have all, and abound” (Phil. 4:18). In one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, “Flowers that Grow in the Gloom.” It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guidé tells me the sort of flowers which are not afraid of these dingy corners—may rather like them and flourish in them. And there are similar things in the world of the spirit. They come out when ma terial circumstances become stern and severe. They grow in the gloom. How can we otherwise explain some of the ex periences of the Apostle Paul? Here he is in captivity at Rome. The supreme mission of his life appears to be broken. But it is just in this besetting dinginess that flowers begin to show their faces of bright and fascinating glory. He may have seen them before, growing in the open road, but never as they now ap peared in incomparable strength and beauty. Words of promise opened out their treasures as he had never seen them before. Among those treasures were such wonderful things as the grace of Christ, the love of Christ, the joy and peace of Christ; and it seemed as though they needed “an encircling gloom” to draw out their secret and their inner glory. At any rate the realm of gloom became the home of revelation, and Paul began to realize as never before the range and wealth of his spiritual inheritance. Who has not known men and women who, when they arrive at seasons of gloom and solitude, put on strength and hopefulness like a robe? You may imprison such folk where you please; but you shut up their treasure with them., You cannot shut it out. You may make their material lot a desert, but “the wilderness and the soli tary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” — Dr. Jow ett. — o — June 4 —“I cried unto the L ord with my voice, and he heard me out o f his holy hill" (Psa. 3 :4 ). What a grand philosophy of prayer we get in God’s Book! Down here in dark ness, with trouble closing upon me like wolves upon the belated traveler, I cried; and One as loving and personal as myself heard me. My Father God, up yonder in heaven, heard me. When I, His child, fell down here on earth, I tried to get up and began to cry. He knew the cry of His bairn and, quicker than I can tell it, flew to my relief. “That is my David,” said
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