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maker’s bench and went to India. David Livingstone saw God, and left all to fol low Him through the jungles of dark Africa. Scores and hundreds have had visions of God, and are today in the ut termost parts of the earth working for the speedy evangelization of the heathen. We all need this vision.— The Still Small Voice. ' October 31— “Come up in the morn ing . . . . and present thyself unto me in the top of the mount” ,(Ex. 34:2). The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. The very word “morn ing” is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let us crush them, and drink the sacred wine. In the morning! Then God means me to be at my best in strength and hope. I have not to climb in my weakness. In the night I have buried yesterday’s fa tigue, and in the morning take a new lease of energy. Blessed is the day whose morning is sanctified ! Successful is the day whose first victory was won in prayer ! Holy is the day. whose dawn finds thee on the top of the mount! My Father, I am coming. Nothing on the mean plain shall keep me away from the holy heights. At Thy bidding I come, so Thou wilt meet me. Morning on the mount ! It will make me strong and glad all the rest of the day so well begun.— Joseph Parker. I —o-— November 1— “Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith” (1 Kings 17:3). God’s servants .must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man who is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low place before his God. We must not be surprised if sometimes our Father says : “There, child, thou hast had enough of this hurry, and publicity, and excitement; get thee hence, and hide thyself by the brook—hide thyself in the Cherith of the sick chamber, or in the Cherith of bereavement, or in some soli tude from which the crowds have ebbed away.” Happy is he who can reply, “This Thy will is also mine ; I flee unto Thee to hide me. Hide me in thè secret of Thy tabernacle, and beneath the covert of Thy wings !” Every saintly soul that would wield great power with men must win it in some hidden Cherith. The acquisition of spiritual power is impossible unless we can hide ourselves from men and from ourselves in some deep gorge where we may absorb the power of the eternal God ; as vegetation through long ages absorbed these qualities of sunshine, which it now gives back through burn ing coal. Bishop Andrews had his Che rith, in which he spent five hours every day in prayer and devotion. John Welsh had it—who thought the day ill spent which did not witness eight or ten hours of closet communion. David Brainerd had it in the woods of North America. Christmas Evans had it in his long and lonely journeys amid the hills of Wales. Or, passing back to the blessed age from which we date the centuries : Patmos, the seclusion of the Roman prisons, the Ara bian desert, the hills and vales of Pales tine, are forever memorable as the Che- riths of those who have made our modern world. Our Lord found His Cherith at Nazareth, and in the wilderness of Judea;
“He knows how hard the way has been, The clouds that come our lives between, The wounds the world has never seen— He knows it all.” :—o— October 28— “I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it” (Psa. 39:9). When the Almighty in a moment over turns our cherished schemes, by His grace may we be enabled to say: “0 God, here am I ; do to me as seemeth good to Thee. I wish not to evade any cross. The lot may be a bitter one cast into the lap, ‘but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.’ If my cup be filled with unmerited blessings, ‘Thou didst it’; if emptied and its fragments strewn on the ground, ‘Thou didst it.’ Let the world speak of its accident of chance, but let mine be the nobler, truer philosophy—‘The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken.’ "—Macduff. —o— October 29— “When thou goest, thy way shall be opened up before thee step by step” (Proverbs 4:12, Free Translation). The Lord never builds a bridge of faith except under the feet of the faith-filled traveler. If He builds the bridge a rod ahead, it would not be a bridge of faith. That which is of sight is not of faith. There is a self-opening gate which is sometimes used in country roads. It stands fast and firm across the road as a traveler approaches it. If he stops before he gets to it, it will not open. But if he will drive right at it, his wagon wheels press the springs below the roadway, and the gate swings back to let him through. He must push right on at the closed_gate, or it will continue to be closed. This illus trates the way to pass every barrier on the road of duty. Whether it is a river, a gate or a mountain, all the child of God has to do is to go for it. If it is a river, it will dry up when you put your feet in its waters. If it is a gate, it will fly open when you are near enough to it, and are still pushing on. If it is a mountain, it will be lifted up and cast into the sea when you come squarely up, without flinching, to where you thought it was. Is there a great barrier across your path of duty just now? Just go for it, in the name of the Lord, and it won’t be there! —Henry Clay Trumbull. —o— October 30— “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18). Waiting upon God is necessary in order to see Him, to have a vision of Him. The time element in vision is essential. Our hearts are like a sensitive photographer’s plate; and in order to have God revealed there, we must sit at His feet a long time. The troubled surface of a lake will not reflect an object. Our lives must be quiet and restful if we would see God. There is power in the sight of some things to affect one’s life. A quiet sunset will bring peace to a troubled heart. Thus the vision of God always transforms human life. Jacob saw God at Jabbok’s ford, and became Israel. The vision of God trans formed Gideon from a coward into a val iant soldier. The vision of Christ changed Thomas from a doubting follower into a loyal, devout disciple. But men have had visions of God since Bible times. Wil liam Carey saw God, and left his shoe-
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