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splinters and slivers, tacked together; and after forty years, I see some men carry ing their cross just as rude as it was at first. Others, I perceive, begin to wind about it faith and hope and patience; and after a time, like Aaron’s rod, it blos soms all over; and at last their cross has been so covered with holy affections that it does not seem any more to be a cross. They carry it so easily, and are so much more strengthened than burdened by it, that men almost forget that it is a cross, by the triumph with which they carry it. Carry your cross in such a way that there shall be victory in it; and let every tear, as it drops from your eye, glance also, as the light strikes through it, with the con solations of the Holy Ghost.— Beecher. The cross is not greater than His grace, The storm cannot hide His blessed face, I am satisfied to know that with Jesus here below, I can conquer every foe. ——o— June 29— “Wait for the Lord . . . yea wait thou for the Lord” (Psa. 27:14, New Translation). Faith learns quietly to wait God’s time as well as God’s deliverance. Sometimes the very power to continue in prayer is istelf a grand and gracious answer, for it is our nature to grow weary all too soon. Into the poured-out heart God can and will put a peace and joy of which the prayerless soul knows nothing. And com munion with God trains and bends our wayward wills into conformity to His. Is this a small mercy? Besides this, keep in mind that if a request is not immediately granted, that is no reason for thinking it will never be granted. As a quaint old writer puts it, “Delays are not denials,” —Miss Lucy A. Bennett. God lights the way, He does not ask His children To stumble on in darkened ways alone; His love will guide them still by pit and stone, , God lights the way. The heavy clouds of sin make dark the day Halt .not for fear, push on God lights the way. —o— June 30— “The hour cometh . . . that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own , and shall leave me alone” (John 16:32). Christ’s loneliness deepened as the end drew near. The disciples understood Him even less when He spoke about His death than in the rest of His teachings. He had, in a very special sense, to go down into the valley alone. Death is ever a solitude, and, perhaps, is most terrible because it is. The fondest love can go with us only to the gate. We must part outside the barrier, and all alone pass in and take our journey. But His death, compassed by treachery, and preceded by the flight of His friends and the denial of His chief Apostle, was, in a very special sense, a solitary death. The little faith which had been building up in some hearts was shat tered. “We trusted” was the most they would say. And so, wrapped in darkness, He died, as He had lived, alone! How profoundly must our Lord have felt the
the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.’ If my cup be filled with unmerited blessings, ‘Thou didst i t :’ 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. i
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Grace fathomless as the sea, Grace flowing from Calvary, Grace enough for eternity, Grace enough for me.
June 26— ‘‘He knew what was in man” (John 2:25). ‘‘Having loved his own . . . he loved them to the uttermost” (John 13 :1, R. V., Margin). The Lord can make no new discoveries about us. When He chose us He knew what was in us—that Peter would deny Him, and all the rest forsake Him; and YET He chose us for Himself. We should be startled at the revelations that come of failure, shortcoming, and sin; but He made provision for them all. How great the possibilities that open up before a faith that will lay hold of and appro priate such provision!— John McCarthy. To Mr. Hudson Taylor it came almost as a revelation that the Lord can make no new discoveries about us; that His love has foreseen and provided for all— Mrs. H oward Taylor. June 27— “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Rev. 12:11). When James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to give them the best places in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request; but told them that they would be given to them if they could do His work, drink His cup, and be baptized with His baptism. Do we want the competition ? The greatest things are always hedged about by the hardest things; and we, too, shall find mountains, and forests, and chariots of iron, and giants. Triumphal arches are not woven out of rose blossoms and silken cords, but reared by hard blows and bloody scars. Hardship is the price of coronation. The very hardships that you are enduring in your life today are given by the Master for the explicit purpose of enabling you to win your crown. Do not wait for some ideal situation, some romantic difficulty,- some far-away emergency; but rise to meet the actual conditions which the providence of God has placed around you today. Your crown of glory lies em bedded in the very heart of those things —those hardships and trials that are pressing you this very hour. There, be loved, lies your crown. God help you to overcome, and sometime wear itl— Christ in the Bible. —-o— June 28— “Behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blos soms, and yielded almonds” (Num. 17:8). God gives everybody, I think, a cross when he enters upon the Christian life. When it comes into his hands, what is it? It is the rude oak, foursquare, full of
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