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grievous words stir up anger” (Prov. 15 : 1 ). There is no weakness' to which the average person is more prone than that of “touchiness.” How quick we are to take offense; how quick we are to give a hot answer to those who dare to criticize us ! How un-Christlike such conduct is ! It brings shame on our profession, and neu tralizes many o f our most earnest efforts to advance the kingdom. Others remember the words that we speak on such occasions long after we have forgotten them. Let us cultivate the grace o f giving a “soft an swer” when men intentionally or uninten tionally try our patience. It will work won ders. It will unhorse many a warrior. It will put to shame many a boorish and ill- mannered foe. It will give us a new self- respect. It will give us a new influence as servants o f Christ. Nothing should humil iate the child of God more quickly than the possession of a peppery disposition. Let us be heartily ashamed o f our quick and flashing tempers. Let us strive to be like our Master, who when He was reviled, re viled not again.—W atchman -E xaminer . JULY 1 T hree F ishing R ules "Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers o f men” (Matt. 4:19, R .V .). I watched an old man trout-fishing the other day, pulling them out one after an other briskly. “ You manage it cleverly, old friend,” I said. “ I have passed a good many below who don’t seem to be doing anything.” The old man lifted himself up and stuck his rod in the ground. “Well, you see, sir, there be three rules for trout-fishing, and ’tis no good trying if you don’t mind them. The first is, Keep yourself out of sight; and the second is, Keep yourself farther out of sight; and the third is, Keep yourself farther still out o f sight. Then you’ll do it.” “Good rules for catching men, too,” thought I. —M ark G uy P earse . JULY 2 T he O pen R oad “I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes” (Dan. 9:3 ). It is prayer which keeps open the road between the soul and its resources. That great line o f communication is kept clear like a splendid highway, and the sacred transports are arriving every moment in an all-availing sufficiency. The supplies are waiting: prayer opens the way and re ceives them. It is not left to our j udgment to determine what we need. God’s loving wisdom interprets the need. It is our part to open our souls to the grace and bounty of an infinite God, and the necessities are supplied. Prayer is a minister o f the open road, and prayer is a minister o f reception. When we cease to pray, the open highway is blocked and closed. The waiting sup plies cannot reach u s; they cannot get past our spiritual forgetfulness and indiffer ence. And so the big duty daunts u s; the strong enemy affrights us. W e become faint, and the battle goes against us. Let us keep the roads open, and our gracious God will see to the transports. —J. H. J owett . What various hindrances we meet In coming to the mercy-seat; Yet who, that knows the worth of prayer, But wishes to be often there?
No matter where I am I crave His cate; In moments when my soul is sore afraid, , It comforts most to know He’s every where.” JUNE 28 I n the L ord ’ s S ecret "But the servants which drew the water knew” (John 2 :9). Merely a parenthesis! Perhaps we are inclined to read it quickly and bestow no thought upon it. Yet stay. The servants had, readily, unquestioningly, willingly obeyed the Lord, and were now in the secret of His blessing. Is there not a most precious blessing here? The servants did not begin to argue with Jesus, as to the un suitability o f providing a large supply_of water on such an occasion. _Oh, this sim ple, unquestioning, all-trusting obedience; how becoming and right! Too frequently we would enter into an argument instead, or discuss certain points, to clear the way, theologically or scientifically; or “ thought fully” inquire into the relative bearing of things and truths, and so on. But oh, how much better to trust the Master, and then just do His w ill! “W e know,” said St. Paul, when speaking of the deep things of God; and “we know” echoed St. John, as he wrote, at length, o f the certainties of Christian experience. We, too, know the secret of the Lord, and can tell others who turns the water into wine. W e are in the Lord’s secret o f peace, o f power, and of victory. He bids us divulge it to all long ing souls. Let us tell it out, then, freely! Above all, let the brightness o f our consis tent, happy lives give evidence every day and always, that doing His will, even drawing water, or hewing wood, or any thing else, is full o f untold satisfaction, and gives a foretaste o f the joy and the blessedness o f heaven itself.—J.T.W. JUNE 29 T he P rayer of the F ishermen “ O keep my soul, and deliver me” (Psa. 25 :20). The fishermen o f Brittany, we are told, are wont to offer this simple prayer when they launch their boats upon _the deep: “ Keep me, my G od ; my boat is so small and the ocean is so wide.” How touch ingly beautiful the words and the thought! How wise and appropriate the prayer! Might not the same petition be offered with the same directness by us every day o f our lives? “Keep me, my God; my boat is so small”— I am so weak, so helpless, so easily carried by the winds and tossed by the waves. “And Thy ocean is so wide”— the perils are so many, the rocks so fre quent, the current of temptation so resist less, the tides o f evil so treacherous, the icy mountains of disaster so threatening, that, except Thou, the Lord, dost keep me, I must utterly perish. Keep me, my God, keep me; my boat is so small, and Thy winds are so fierce. Thy waves are so high, Thy waters are so deep. Thy ocean is so wide, I am so buffeted about by sharp adversity, so driven before the storms o f grief, so swept by the resistless Eurocly- don of defeat—keep me, my God, keep m e! —G. B. F. H allock . “ Oh, help me, L ord ! each hour of need; Thy heavenly succor g ive; Help me in thought, and word, and deed, Each hour on earth I live.” JUNE 30 A S oft A nswer "A soft answer turneth away wrath : but
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