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hushed! How many a harp would be un strung! How many a place in the man sions of the redeemed would be unfilled! If God answered all the prayers we put up to heaven, we should need no other scourge. Blessed it is that we have One who is too loving to grant what we too often so rashly ask.— F. Whitfield. — o — June IS— “A ll the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever” (Gen. 13:15). God’s promises are ever on the ascend ing scale. One leads up to another, fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopo tamia God said, “I will show thee the land.” At Bethel, “This is the land.” Here, “I will give thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand.” And we shall find even these eclipsed. It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving anything till we have dared to act —that He may test us. Not giving every thing at first—that He may not over whelm us. And always keeping in hand an infinite reserve of blessing. Oh, the unex plored remainders of God! Who ever saw His last star?-— F. B. Meyer. June 16— “And the rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship. And sd it came to: pass that they escaped all safe to land”' (Acts 27:44). This marvelous story of Paul’s voyage to Rome with its trials and triumphs is a fine pattern of the lights and shades of the way of faith all through the story of human life. The remarkable feature of it is the hard and narrow places which we find intermingled with God’s most extraordinary interpositions and provi dences. It is the common idea that the pathway of faith is strewn with flowers, and that when God interposes in the life of His people He does it on a scale so grand that He lifts us quite out of the plane of difficulties. The actual ,fact, howr ever, is that the real experience- is. flifite contrary. It is only when we come to trust God that we meet with trials and diffi culties. The story of the Bible is one of alternate trial and triumph in the case of every one of the cloud of witnesses from Abel down to the latest martyr. God’s promises and God’s providences do not lift us out of the plane of common sense and commonplace trial, but it is through these very things that faith is perfected, and that God loves to interweave the golden threads of His love along the warp and woof of our everyday experience. It is most helpful to us to realize that we have a God who thus comes into the most commonplace things, and that it is no evi dence that He has failed us if He allows ten thousand difficulties on every side to throng us, and deliver us in answer to prayer at last, to use the colloquial ex pression, by the closest kind of a shave and through straits so narrow that we seem to be barely delivered at the very point of disaster and from the very jaws of destruction.— A. B. Simpson. June 17— “We are laborers together with God” (1 Cor. 3:9). One hot July morning a boy was hoe ing corn in a field. Apparently oblivious of the heat and indifferent as to the exact- I
ness of his toil, he whistled while he worked. A dust-laden traveler stopped his horse, drew up to the fence, and called out, “Hello, my lad, I am curious to know how you can hoe corn on a day like this and whistle while you work.” “Well, sir,” replied the lad, “I don’t know unless it is that I feel somehow that I am a-doin’ somethin’ that even the Almighty couldn’t do if I wasn’t here to help Him.” What fine faith is that! In partnership with God! . . . . How the task is dignified! There is no drudgery to the man who feels that he is working with God.— Geo. L. Perin. —o— June 18— “I must wotk the works of him that sent me, while it is day” (John 9 :4). Opportunity is a rare and sacred thing. God seldom offers it twice. In the English fields the little drosera, or sundew, lifts its tiny crimson heads. The delicate buds are clustered in a raceme, to the summit of which they climb, one by one. The top most bud waits only through the twelve hours of a single day to open. If the sun does not shine, it withers and drops, and gives way to the next aspirant. So it is with the human heart and its purposes. One by one they come to the point of blos soming. If the sunshine of faith and the serene heaven of resolution meet the ripe hour, all is well; but if you faint, repel, delay, they wither at the core, and your crown is stolen from you,—your privilege set aside.LfCaroline H. Dali. —o— June 19— “I being in the way, the Lord led me” (Gen. 24:27). This is more than the mere record of a diligent servant’s experience in the carry ing out of an interesting duty. Although it certainly testifies to his reliance upon God’s providential guidance in a quest in which human intelligence had been quite inadequate, it also expresses the principle upon which God’s guidance of His people is'based. There is nothing merely haphaz ard, or of a passing moment, in that gra cious ministry by which He leads His people in the ways of His will. We must be “in the way” of His commandments; that is, in the pathway of obedience, if we are to be led as was Eliezer. Outside that pathway are heard the noises of strain and strife which drown the still, small voice. On enchanted ground there are dazzling sights which blind the vision to the glance of the guiding Eye. In the crowded throng there is so much pressure of other lives upon our own, that the gen tler touch of God falls unnoticed. It is only in the solitary pathway of entire loyalty that His unfailing and varying ministry of guidance can be certainly known. When the heart is free of con demnation in respect of all that is known of His will, then the combination of cir cumstances by which all ways but one are closed may be taken as indicating divine leading.— Rev. Stuart Holden. —o— June 20— "Acquaint now thyself with Him” (Job 22:21). “Remember that acquaintance with God can come through no casual introduction,” said A. J .Gordon. “Calling on God in the morning and leaving your visiting card of devotion, but having no care as to
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