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brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by hard rubbing. Some do not like it and try to run away from the pressure, instead of getting the power and using it to rise above the painful causes. —o— November 19-—' “Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed” (Psa. 37:3). I once met a poor colored woman who earned a precarious living by hard daily labor, but who was a joyous triumphant Christian. “Ah, Nancy,” said a gloomy Christian- lady to her one day, “it is all well enough to be happy now; but I should think the thoughts of your future would sober you. Only suppose, for in stance, you should have a spell of sick ness, and be unable to work; or suppose your present employers should move away, and no one else should give you anything to do ; or suppose—” “Stop!” cried Nancy. “I never supposes. De Lord is my Shepherd, and I knows I shall not want. And, honey,” she added, to her gloomy friend, “it’s all dem supposes as is makin’ you so mis’able. You’d better give dem all up, and just trust de Lord.” There is one text that will take all the “supposes” out of a believer’s life, if it be received and acted on in childlike faith; it is Hebrews 13:5, 6 : “Be content with such things as ye have: for HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”—if. W. S. —o— November 20— “For with God nothing shall be impossible" (Luke 1:37). Face it out to the end, cast away every shadow of hope on the human side as an absolute hindrance to the divine, heap up all the difficulties together recklessly, and pile as many more on as you can find; you cannot get beyond the blessed climax of impossibility. Let faith swing out to Him. He is the God of the impossible. — Sel. Nothing that is not God’s will can come into the life of one who trusts and obeys God. This fact is enough to make our life one of ceaseless thanksgiving and joy. For “God’s will is the one hopeful, glad, and glorious thing in the world” ; and it is working in omnipotence for us all the time, with nothing to prevent it if we are surrendered and believing. One who was passing through deep waters of affliction wrote to a friend: “Is it not a glorious thing to know that, no difference how unjust a thing may be, or how absolutely it may seem to be from Satan, by the time it reaches us it is God’s will for us, and will work for good to us? For all things work together for good to us who love God. And even of the betrayal, Christ said, ‘The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” ’ We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan, through others’ sin, can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessings on the way .—Selected. — o — November 21—" All things” (Rom. 8:28).
November 22— “I call to remembrance my song in the night” (Psa. 77: 6 ). A good many people never learn to sing until the darkling shadows fall. The fabled nightingale carols with his breast against a thorn. It was in the night that the song of the angels was heard. It was at midnight that the cry came, “Be hold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him,” Indeed, it is extremely doubtful if a soul can really know the love of God in its richness and in its comforting, satisfying completeness until the skies are black and lowering. Light comes out of darkness, morning out of the womb of the night. James Creelman, in one of his letters, describes his trip through the Balkan States in search of Natalie, the exiled Queen of Serbia. “In that memorable journey,” he says, “I learned for the first time that the world’s supply of attar of roses comes from the Balkan Mountains. And the thing that interested me most,” he goes on, “is that the roses must be gathered in the darkest hours. The pick ers start out at one o’clock and finish picking them at two. At first, it seemed to me a relic of superstition; but I in vestigated the picturesque mystery, and learned that actual scientific tests had proven that fully forty per cent of the fragrance of roses disappeared in the light of day.” And in human life and hu man culture that is not a playful, fanciful conceit; it is a real veritable fact.— Mal colm J. McLeod. There are within the range of every one’s life processes of life which must be solitary, passages of duty which throw one absolutely upon his individual moral forces, and admit of no aid whatever from another. Alone we must s t a n d sometimes; and if our better nature is not to shrink into weakness, we must take with us the thought which was the strength of Christ: “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” The sense of right can more readily indurate the tender than melt the rocky soul, and that is the most finished character which begins in beauty and ends in power; that leans on the love of kindred while it may, and when it may not can stand erect in the love of God; that shelters itself amid the domesticities of life while duty wills, and when it forbids can go forth under the expanse of immortality, and face any storm that beats, and traverse any wilder ness that lies beneath that canopy.— James Martineau. . November 24— “I f any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink . . . out of his inner being shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7 :37, 38). Straining, driving effort does not ac complish the work God gives man to do. Only God Himself, who always works without strain, and who never overworks, can do the work that He assigns to His children. When they restfully trust Him to do it, it will be weM done and com pletely done. The way to let Him do His work through us is to partake of Christ so fully, by faith, that He more than fills our life. A man who had learned this November 23— “And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me” (John 16:32).
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