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we should be very grateful for them. They are to fit us for the future; they are to refine our characters ; to strengthen our faith in God; to give us present ex perience and reliance in His perfect love and wisdom. jlll— Dr. A. T. Schofield. — o — Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but it empties today of its strength.—Alexander Maclaren.
darkness,” We may exchange “the spirit of heaviness” for “the garment of praise.” “Keep up the song of faith, And let your heart be strong; For God delights when faith can praise, Though dark the night and long.” —o— Suffering Our sufferings are for our own good, not God’s. They are for our sake, not His. It is we who benefit, not He, and
Shut In But Not Shut Out B y G ertrude C ockerell I N a day of depression that threatened to eat out his vitals, such as we all know, Stephenson said, “I must get out my wings.” The atmosphere around was too heavy, too close for him to breathe. He began to think of God, His love and power, and the Savior who died for him. Then he started counting his blessings, but he had not gone far, when he was ready to ex claim with Billy Bray, “I have had my trials by the spoonful, but my blessings by the ladle.” And who can tell what blessings went out from that sick cham ber through his witness, his testimony, his intercession! In our Lord’s Presence nothing can hold us captive. We escape from our prison-house as we rest on the Word of God. Listen to the testimony of one of whom we there read who had tried and proved that Word to be true, backed as it always is by the Living Word! “. . neither death nor life, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38, 39). “Shut in” does not mean “shut out” from His surpassing love by any of the “things present, nor thiiigs to come” that sometimes hide from us the heavenly vision. B e C areful F or N othing If you have received Christ as your per sonal Savior, and so are within the family circle, as. a child of God (John 1 :12), you are His charge. Then, indeed, we can “be careful for nothing,” rif following out the injunction, “but in everything, with prayer and supplication, with thanks giving, let your requests be made known unto God” (Phil. 4:6). And while trust ing Him with all that presses upon us through ill-health or circumstances, His peace,—-“the p e a c e of God, . wh i c h passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds, through Christ Jesus”; (y. 7). This always follows when the “wings” are brought out for flight, by putting ourselves in the Hands of God, —our look and spirit bear evidence of the fact. “They looked unto Him and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed” (Psa. 34:5). - Only once can we pass through our earthly trials. • May they not be lost op portunities of magnifying the grace of our. Lord Jesus Christ," by receiving of that grace! “Pray that when the north wind blows upon this garden, the spices thereof may flow out,” asks Miss Car michael, of Dohnavur, S. India, for her self, and her associates in her blessed work. Shall we not make this prayer personal and, in it, include all the tried among God’s children? Compared with the eternity of bliss awaiting us as God’s children, how fully we can enter into the statement of the Apostle and, with him, say, "For our light affliction, which is but- for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4: 17-18). What loss to ourselves and others but, above all, to our Lord, if we fail to dis cover and appropriate “the treasures of
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