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I healed its wounds and each morning It sang its old sweet strain, But the bird with the broken pinion Never soared as high again. A man who in prison came to know the power of Christ to forgive sin, wrote on the fly-leaf of the prison Bible in his cell a verse for this poem: But the soul that comes to Jesus, Through failure, shame, and pain, By His wondrous love and mercy, May soar as high again. Is there anything that pleases you more than to be trusted,—to have even a little child look up into your face, and put out his hand to meet yours, and come to you confidingly? By so much as God is bet ter than you are, by so much more does He love to be trusted . . . . There is a hand stretched out to you,—a hand with a wound in the palm of it. Reach out the hand of your faith to clasp it, and cling to it, for without faith it is impos sible to please God.— Selected. — o — June 30— “It is good for me that I have been afflicted" (Psalm 119:71). Gethsemanes have deeper and grander meanings than Canas. The richer natures are the suffering natures. Give me for a friend one who, “with strong crying and tears,” has battled with trial at midnight, and in thicker darkness of soul has prayed in agony, like Ajax, for light. Shallow and loose-rooted is the tree that has known only sunshine, and never felt the wrench and shock of the gale. God, who loves us like a father, though he pities, would rather that we patiently bear our burdens than be free from them. Paul tells us, “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is suffi cient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”— M. J. Savage. — o — July 1— “The Lord will command his lov ingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me” (Psalm 42:8). God could have kept Daniel out of the lions’ den, but instead He kept him in the lions’ den. God could have kept the He brew children, out of the fiery furnace, but instead He permitted the flames to burn off their fetters and then He Him self came down and walked with them in the fire. He could have kept Paul and Silas out of the Philippian jail, but He elected rather to bless them in the jail until the prison became an Ebenezer to their souls. God could translate all His saints, as He did Enoch and Elijah, so that they should not see death, but rather He has planned to walk with them through the valley of the shadow so that they will fear no evil, and to bring them from that deep depression on up to the mountains of everlasting bliss. If God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, it is but a temporary expedient; for His per manent plan is to give the lamb power to grow a thick coat of wool which will June 29— “Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb. 11:6).
to follow the footsteps of ‘our father Abraham,’ even to the Mount of Sacri fice.”— Chas. H. Usher.
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