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ant; and their faces shall never he con founded” (Psa. 34:5, R. V.). You were in the house of 'God. You worshiped God there. You exposed your self to His luminous presence. Is it making any difference in your life today? It ought to make such a real difference that even the men that are around about you become aware of it. . . . Today and tomorrow God calls us to go forth out of His immediate, glorious presence into His world, and there in the midst of men He wants us to reflect His glory, to reveal to the world something of His truth, and holiness, and justice, and love, and joy.— P . A . H oekstra . MAY 11 Completed at Calvary "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do” (John 17:4). “It is finished” ! Only three words, but the mind of man can never fathom the depths, ascend the heights, comprehend the length or the breadth of them! . . . Upon the awful tree, the triune God was finish ing the work of saving sinful men from j udgment and endless death . . . The bridge across the awful gulf was finished. There were no finishing touches for man to put on that bridge. Man has nothing, abso lutely nothing, to do but to cross over. Cross over, O man, cross over. —Louis S. B aum an . A Saviour not quite God is a bridge broken at the further end. — H andley C. G. M oule . "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Gal. 6:9). Weariness is the result of sustained effort, whether the work itself be pleasant or dis tasteful. Why, then, does the exhortation come to us, “Let us not be weary in well doing” ? The answer is that the natural result of labor may be avoided by the use of supernatural power. If, therefore, we find ourselves growing weary in well doing, we ought to ask ourselves at what point “confidence in the flesh” has been allowed to assert itself. . . . It is “they that wait upon the Lord” who “shall run, and not be weary,” who “shall walk, and not faint.” —Daily Manna Calendar. MAY 13 Condemned Buildings " Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people” (Amos 7:7). • Amos was called to be the prophet of the plumb line, which is a symbol of judg ment according to righteousness. One has to apply the plumb line to the wall of his own heart before, as a builder for God, he can hang it beside the faulty construction that is going up so much today in the name of the Lord, but which must be condemned as crooked and unsafe. Amos did that, and spoke his God-given warnings in great bold ness, fearing neither king nor false priest. May God help us to speak the unpleasant truths when they need to be spoken. ■—Sunday School Times. MAY 12 Supernatural Rest
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