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go often to His seat, kneel often at His feet, look often into His face. When the eye E . perfect,- i t ' enlightens the whole body. Every object within reach of the eye is as perfectly seen as if there were an eye in every part of the body. When the light of Christ dwells fully in the heart, it extends its influence to every thought, word, and action. It directs its possessor how to act in all places and circumstances. If the gates heavenward are clear and free, the whole man is divinely instructed. Another requisite is obedience. God will not discover His way to the disobedient soul. Obey God’s will with cordial loyal ty ; and, while you are doing it, you shall understand. “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine.” —/. Gregory Mantle. —o— March 9— ‘‘My soul wait thou only up on God” (Psa. 62:5). “What could we bairns do without Him?” asks Rutherford. “It is good that Christ ever took the cumber off u s ; it is our heaven to lay many weights and bur dens upon Christ, and to take Him all that we have . .. . Scare not at the cross of Christ. It is not yet seen what Christ will do for you, when it cometh to the worst. He will keep His grace till ye be at a strait.” . . . Often, here and now, will He employ a human hand to wipe away the tears; but our eyes must not the less be turned toward Him who will, one day, wipe away all tears forever. It is by the ministry of human sympathy and human help that our need may many a time be met; but if; our dependence is on the human, we shall rue it. “My. soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expecta tion is from him” is the experience to which we must, sooner or later, be brought; and though we are long learn ing the full import of that “only,” He is graciously purposed to lead us up to it. It is impossible that He should set before us any other than Himself as the bearer of our burdens; nor can His heart be sat isfied if we look lower than that. The re frain of our hearts must ever b e : “Blessed be the Lord,, who daily beareth our bur dens.” “Dear Lord, in all our loneliest pains , Thou hast the largest share; And that which is unbearable ’Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.’? — o — March 10-— “Little children, abide in him; that . . . we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his com ing” (1 John 2:28). St. John, addressing his little children who were Christ’s little children too, coun sels them to abide in Him, that they may not be ashamed before Him at His com ing. Among the very children who will pass into the Kingdom prepared for them, there may be some ashamed to meet the ' Master. His words of acceptance will be mingled with other words of regret that their faith should have been so feeble, their love so meagre, their obedience so broken by sin. They will be saved; but all the trumpets will not sound for them on the other side. Tertullian tells of a Christian pastor, in the second century, who drove out a demon from the spirit I. of a young woman, although she was at —Lucy A. Bennett.
the time of her possession an accepted candidate for admission to the church. “How is it,” the pastor asked the demon, ' “that you ventured to enter one who be longs to Christ?” “Because—” the signifi cant answer ran, “because she strayed in to my territory.” It cannot be that we wish to be put to the blush before our King, because, when He appears, He dis covers us straying into the enemy’s terri tory. Therefore let us cultivate the habit of supplicating, “Maran-atha! My Lord, rend Thy heavens, and come!” It will deepen all our holiness. —Alexander Smellie. — o — March 11 —“Ye shall receive power, af ter that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me . . . unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1 :8). It is plain that something needs to be done beyond what is now being done; some new clue must be found to the mazes of this missionary question; some new factor found for the solution of the greatest practical problem ever before the churches. What we are to do must be done quickly. The generation is passing away, and we with it. These millions of unsaved souls we must confront at the bar of God. What can we do for their salva tion—nay, for our own salvation from blood-guiltiness—before the sun of life shall set? These thousand millions of unevangel ized souls are dying at the rate of thirty million a year, and as many more are com-: ing on the stage of life. It is plain that what we are to do for our own genera tion we must do while that generation lasts; and this is utterly impracticable, if not impossible, unless the Lord of the harvest, in answer to prayer, sends forth more laborers into His harvest. — A. T. Pierson. — o — March 12— “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal. 2:20). For myself, I could not live a day, nor any part of a day, were I not crucified with Christ. Come up beside me, my brethren 1 There is room in Christ cru cified for us all. I am sure you live a miserable life down there and out of Christ. . . . Come up hither to peace and rest. Learn to say, and then say it con tinually till you say it in your sinful dreams: “I am crucified with Christ.” And then you will be able to work in peace, and to lie down in peace, and to rise up. Then you will be able to die in peace, and to awake forever to Christ and His never-to-be-broken peace. -—Alexander Whyte. ---O-- : March 13— “Who then offereth willing ly to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord” (1 Chron. 29:5)? These words áre the call to a full con secration. They imply, by their very con text, the consecration of substance. “All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee,” said the king, in the prayer with which he led the people’s wor ship. This is the only safe principle of possession. Our goods are held in fief; we are stewards of God. Moreover, just because these things are not our own, but Another’s, our very loyalty will impel us
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