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October 23—“He that believeth shall not make haste” (Isa, 28:16). God never lays upon His children the yoke o f feverish intensity— that is the devil’s yoke. God’s yoke is easy, His bur den light—it is a yoke of restful intensity, without fever and without haste, though often with travail of soul, as in interces sion. God is never slow from His stand point, but He is from ours, because im petuosity and doing things prematurely are universal human weaknesses. God lives and moves in eternity, and every lit tle detail in His working must be like Himself, and have in it the majesty and measured movement as well as the ac curacy and promptness o f infinite wisdom. It would be well for us to take as a daily and hourly watchword, ‘‘Go slow with God.” We can never walk with God until we learn to go slow, to take time to pray, to think twice before we speak once, to watch the pace o f His guidance, and measure our steps accordingly. Rebecca and Jacob were in a hurry to get God’s foreordained blessing from the lips of Isaac, and paid the penalty of twenty years’ separation and sorrow. There are glimpses into God’s perfections, insights into wonderful truths, quiet unfoldings of daily opportunities, gentle checks of the Holy Spirit upon our decisions and words, sweet and secret promptings to do certain things, the quiet solving of hard problems, and mental articulations of special words o f strength which we have often missed because we took our ear from God’s telephone too quickly, or run past the angle o f vision, or got in a fev erish state o f anxiety, or attempted to take God’s work into our own hands. True, God often acts instantaneously, but it is the instantaneousness o f mature and boundless wisdom, and not the quickness of a creature’s hurry. “In patience possess ye your souls.”— Streams in the Desert. —o— October 24— "Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by, prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your requests be unreservedly made known in the presence o f God” (Phil. 4:6, Weymouth’s translation). There is what is called the “cushion of the sea.” Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms and driven about with winds, there is a part of the sea that is never stirred. When we dredge the bot tom and bring up the remains o f animal and vegetable life we find that they give evidence o f not having been disturbed in the least for hundreds of thousands of years. The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble and disturbance; and he who enters into the presence o f God becomes partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm.— Dr. A. T. Pierson. The ways o f our heavenly Father are mysterious, and to us incomprehensible; but, hereafter, we shall see the wisdom, the mercy, the necessity of every one. When your spirits sink within you from pain and weakness, then resign yourself to your Father’s almighty hand. Your gracious High Priest can be touched with I the feeling o f your infirmities. - October 25— “ Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father” (Rom. 1 :7).
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Pray for the Holy Spirit to lift you above the level of this world, and enable you to look over death to the bright and glorious country which lies beyond, and, as Hopeful said to Christian, when pass ing the River of Death, “Hold up, brother, I feel the bottom,” so you may rely on divine aid and grace.— Bishop Daniel Wil son. October 26— “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt” (Num. 14:4). How childish, mean, ungrateful, and spiritless they had become! All God’s goodness was forgotten in the fearfulness that had taken hold o f them. What won der that God was filled with contempt for the people whom He had brought thus far (see verses 11, 12). When in His wisdom God leads us into difficulty and depriva tion, that He may perfect’ the work He has begun in us, what is our attitude ? Do we forget the one thing we ought to re member, God’s pledge and covenant, that having spared not His own Son, but de livered Him up for us all, He will with Him also freely give us all things? —J. G, M. - — o— October 27— “Blessed is the man that heareth me, .watching daily at my gates” (Prov. 8:34). “ The night shall be light about me” (Psa. T39:11). Daily personal communion there must be, study of His Word, waiting upon Him in prayer, the cultivation of close fellow ship by telling Him everything (joys as well as sorrows), and periods o f silence in which the soul simply waits and listens in the stillness .for His voice. These cannot be neglected without a veil, a cloud, a darkness coming1between the soul and Himself, and so hindering the possibility of advancement. A few .moments o f thoughtful medita tion before God and getting into a right attitude with Him—that is worth hours of mere aimless prayers. Get into a right attitude, and the Spirit will come and fill you, and you will know how to pray and what to pray for! You need to have it confirmed at the beginning of each morn ing; and throughout the day, moment by moment, remember your attitude towards God.— Evan H. Hopkins. — o — October 28— “ Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, 0 Lord, and teachest him out o f thy laws” (Psa. 94:12). The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul- anguish. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if Fie takes you aside into a desert place, or leads you into a furnace of pain. —Meyer. If you consecrate your cross to the Lord Jesus, He will use it, and He will make it one of your best friends. He will make it to you, as He did to Samuel Rutherford—“WINGS.” He will use the way you bear your cross to cheetS others who are staggering despairingly under their crosses.— Dr. Charles Inwood. October 29— “Men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Lk. 18:1). Two men were confessing to each other the causes o f their failure in the ministry.
L ong centuries have elapsed s i n c e ( C alvary but A frica still lies under a pall i o f m idnight blackness, and cruel crim es i attend its devil worship. Thank God for the changes which the Gospel o f grace, preached b y m ission- aries, have made in places where groups o f devoted Christians are witnessing to the pow er o f the blood. But the other ninety p e r cent o f its one hundred and < i fifty m illion souls— "H ow shall they hear , , w ithout a p reach er?"
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