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and poignant need. So we see one com pensation of suffering: it fits us for being in a larger sense helpers of others. — Bits-of-Pasture. I shall know by the gleam and glitter Of the golden chain you wear, By your heart’s calm strength in loving, O f the fire they have had to bear. Beat on, true heart, forever; Shine bright, strong golden chain; And bless the cleansing fire And the furnace of living pain. —Adelaide Proctor. —o— March 5—“ The heart knoweth his own bitterness” (Prov. 14:10). “There are griefs,” says Oliver Wen dell Holmes, “men never put into words; there are fears which must not be spoken —intimate matters of consciousness which must be carried, as bullets which have been driven deep into the living tissues are sometimes carried, for a whole life time-encysted griefs, if we may borrow the surgeon’s term, never to be reached, never to be seen, never to be thrown out, but to go into the dust with the frame that bore them about with it during long years of anguish, known only to the suf- erer and his Maker.” Possibly you may be carrying about with you one of these encysted griefs, which no surgery is skilful enough to extract, or even to re lieve. It is unseen. You never speak of
March 6— "Cast thy bread upon the wa ters: for thou, shalt find it after many days” (Eccl. 11:1). In these days of insurance and money making, we are apt to forget the praise which our Lord gave to the widow who threw away her living, and to Mary’s “waste” of precious ointment. “Where soever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken o f for a memorial of her.” If Israel gathered more manna than was needed, it turned bad. Not only in regard to. money but in all life, there is a care-free, almost reckless extravagance, in the picture which the Scriptures give us of our Lord and the Apostles. “Live dangerously,” said one of the great anti-Christian writ ers o f today. It is for us to recapture that “first fine careless rapture” of the Chris tian Church. We are in the ruts. Can we climb out ? —0— March 7—"And when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee” (Matt. 17:27). What a touching suggestiveness there is in these words addressed to Peter: “For me and thee” ! What a beautiful companionship between Master and dis ciple is here hinted at! The relation ship between the Lord and His follower
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it to others. Yours is that “grief without community” which the poet assures us is the hardest o f all to bear. Your heart “knows its own bitterness.” No one can lighten that secret load you carry. Not even the tenderest friend can touch that inner wound of yours without hurting it. Yet your grief need not be altogether un mentionable. There is one ear into which you can tell the story of your distress. Do as the disciples of John the Baptist did when they had lost their master— go and “tell Jesus.” He can intermeddle with the grief that our fingers are too clumsy to touch. He can enter the closet where the skeleton is locked up. Pour out thy heart before Him, He is a Refuge for thee.—Y. Law Wilson.
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