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and blood of the mart Christ Jesus, but at the sanie time His mystical body-—that body of which He is the head and His people are-members. Through His body also the nails were driven, and on it death took its revenge. His people died with Him unto sin. that they might live forevermore.—S' talker. —o— March 20— “I have given them thy word*’, {John 17:14). “I have finished the work” (John 17:4). Two mighty, eternal, unmovable pillars —the Word of God and the work of the incarnate Son of God—for the feet of our faith to rest on ! The most rational thing in the world is the Word of God. Long after the stars have been forgotten, and the earth on which we dwell has been wrapped up like a worn out garment, the Word of God will live and abide. “Heav en and earth shall pass away but my word shall not- pass away.” The one who preaches the Word is building a monu ment that will last forever. It is the rock of ages. The work of Christ needs not our feeble efforts to make it complete. “There remains no more offering for sin.” God says, “Come empty handed.” Yet the pleasable, plausible, humanitarian phil osophy says counterwise. What shall we bring—presents or gifts we possess not? Cain came with his hands filled and went away empty. Abel came with empty hands and came away filled. The blood was the price. The veil has been rent. With reverent boldness we enter the holy of holies through the new and living way, trusting in God’s eternal Word and work. -‘ .—Watchman-Examiner. —o—- March 21— “We are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building” (1 Cor. 3:9). If-God opens the door, enter it. Don’t let any power on earth keep you back. Never miss an opportunity for sèrvice. It is a great honor to be a coworker with God.— D. L. Moody. ‘ Take up thy cross, and follow Christ, Nor think till death to lay it down; For only he who bears the cross May hope to wear the glorious crown. r*—C. W. Everest. —o— March 22— “And whosoever shall com pel thee to go a mile, go with him twain” (Matt, 5:41). The first mile belongs to law, the sec ond to love. The first mile expresses duty and convinces the mind ; the second breaks the opposition and wins the heart. The first mile brings Sinai into view, the sec ond Calvary. The first reveals the ser vant, obedient and dutiful; the Second shows the princely spirit of one who will sacrifice to seek the lost. This is what brought our Saviour from heaven to earth. He was concerned about the second mile of redemption. True, the cross was promised from the days of the fall, and, even anticipated before, but when the time came for the earthly career of Christ as the “man of sorrows,” He was here to travél that second mile ; and that is why He is so anxious that His people should follow His exainple.— Wesleyan Methodist. —o— : March 23— "Now he that planteth and] he that watereth are one: and every man
March IS— “He is faithful that prom ised,” (Heb. 10:23). The promises of God were freely made; but, being made, they must be fulfilled, for God is faithful. He has promised us, as believers, _eternal life: the pardon of all sin; purity of heart; peace of con science; growth in grace; perseverence in His ways; support under all our trials; supplies for all our wants; and that all things shall work together for our good. These promises we should believe, and ex pect the Lord to make them good. He is faithful to His promises; this is clear from the infinite perfection of His nature, the stability of His well-ordered cove nant, His solemn oath, the testimony of all His saints, the gift of His beloved Son, the history of the church in all ages, and the design with which the promises were made. Let us, therefore,, remember that “faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” Believe that “the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil (or, the evil one).” And let us commit the keeping of our souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. We cannot place too much con fidence in His Word, nor too steadily ex pect its fulfillment. Heaven and earth may pass away, but His Word can under go no change. It is as changeless as His nature, and as immutable as His throne. Nothing is so stable as God’s Word. “True to His Word, God gave His Son To die for crimes which men had done; Blest pledge! He never will revoke A single promise He has spoke.” — James Smith. —o— March 16— "He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God” (Psa. 40:3). I spent a week in the very heart of the ,yood s; and there, morning, noon, and I¡evening I was regaled with the rarest, choicest, most pleasing music. All the music was made by three birds—a quail, a cooing dove, and a wood robin. They sang neither in unison nor in concert. Each had a range of only three notes. But ah, the melody! . . . No conceivable gift or equipment in size of body, or brilliance of plumage, or strength of wing, could have equalled in value the three happy notes each used by the gift of God. I must meditate upon the use of that talent with which the_ good God had endowed them. No repining, complaining, envy ing there. Each bird sang his notes, made his music, gave the world his mel ody. I grew gravely grateful as I thought of how small an equipment or investment is needed to make a happy world. These small birds, with three small notes, and a will to sing! But I spent a week with them in paradise. ..... — J. C. Massee. —rO -- March 17— -“There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Rom.. 8:1).
It is not said there are no falls, no fail ures, no infirmities, no inconsistencies; but, thanks be to God, it is said: “There is . . . now no condemnation . . . the Spirit helpeth our infirmities.” Oh, help us, Lord; each hour of need Thy heavenly succor give; Help us in thought and word and deed, Each hour on earth we live. '— -Life o f Faith. March 18— “All things work together for good to them that love God” (Rom. 8:28): Whatever falls from the skies is, soon er or later, good for the land; whatever comes to us from God is worth having, even though it be a rod. We cannot by nature like trouble any more than a mouse can fall in love with a cat; and yet, Paul by grace came to glory in tribulations also. Losses and crosses are heavy to bear, but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. We must needs go to glory by the way of Weeping Cross; and, as we were never promised that, we should ride to heaven in a feather-bed, we must not be disappoint ed when we see the road to be rough, as our fathers found it before us. . . . Let us plough the heaviest soil with our. eye on the sheaves of harvest. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon. —o— March 19— “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto right eousness” (1 Pet. 2:24). The true sufferings of Christ were not physical, but internal. Looking on that Face, we see the shadow of a deeper woe than smarting wounds and raging thirst and a racking frame—the woes of slighted love; of a heart longing for fellowship but overwhelmed with hatred; the woe of insult and wrong, and of unspeakable sorrow for the fate of those who would not be saved. Nor is even this the deep est shadow. There was then in the heart of the Redeemer a woe to which no hu man words are adequate. He was dying for the sin of the world. He had taken on himself the guilt of mankind, and was now engaged in the final struggle to put it away and annihilate it. On the cross was hanging not only the body of flesh
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