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it is a duty which we owe alike to ourselves and to our common humanity. But God is not only the Creator of beauty, He Him self is beautiful. Radiant with a spiritual loveliness which defies description, while He rejoices in the embellishment of all ma terial things, He delights still more in comeliness of soul. That which is evil is hideous in His eyes, a blot upon the fair uni verse over which He reigns. Moral and spiritual deformity are an abomination—He cannot away with them. If, therefore, we would one day dwell, in His presence, if we would hold com munion with Him, we must cultivate the graces of character which alone will make us pleasing in His sight. For heaven is not only a place, it is a condition; it cannot be enjoyed save by those who have been molded into a God-likeness that shall en able them to shine with the Divine beauty and bring them into harmony with the purity and perfection of the Palace where He dwells. To be careless of character is to risk our eternal destiny. WAITING is perhaps the trying experience of life. Action is always more or less stimulating, but passive expectation makes demands upon our patience and our manliness that are sometimes almost intolerable. When the days slip into weeks, and the weeks grow into months or years, and still the longed-for blessing tar ries, then indeed we know the heart sickness that comes of hope . deferred; then it is that we are tempted to say that God hath fo r-. gotten to be gracious. We may be assured, however, that our fears are groundless and our despair unjustified. “We have waited for him and he will save us." God never makes the waiting of His people eternal; “the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish forever” ; the day of deliverance and fruition will inevitably come. The hope of the worldling may end in final disappoint ment, but not that of the man who has fixed it upon God. These periods of waiting—long, burdensome, and painful as they ar&— are not purposeless; “God doth not willingly afflict the children of men.” They are sent to test our faith, to strengthen our reli ance upon Him, to brace our moral fiber, to teach us lessons in the school of sorrow which shall fit us for the position which God would have ns occupy, and for the work which He intends one day to entrust to our hands. Nothing should be allowed to beguile from us our steadfast faith in His wisdom and His love. He is “our God”—the personal possession of every Believer— and neither His promises nor His love can fail. The very agony of waiting, long drawn out, will enhance the joy of realization and possession when the period of tarrying is over. SO men say; and declare that they have Bible warrant for their words. But when we turn up the passage, we find that it is a mutilated quotation; that it is the love of money, not money itself, which is to be deprecated and avoided. Money ill got and ill spent is a curse indeed, but wealth honestly obtained, and used with a sense of stewardship becomes a powerful servant for good, both of God and man. There is nothing inherently wrong,' either in riches or in the desire to be rich, so be it the one is rightly used and the other does Hot lead us from the path either of virtue or of peace. To covet money for money’s sake, or merely for our own gratification or aggrandizement, is to make it at*once an idol and our master; and no man can serve God and Mammon. To desire wealth that we may apply it to the advance ment of the Savior’s Kingdom, and to the relief and blessing of •our fellow men, is but to ask for wider opportunities of service and of usefulness. True, in some ways we may be thankful when D ecember 13 "We have waited for him.’Wrlsa.. 25:9. D ecember 14 “Money is the root of dll evil." —1 Tim. 6:10.
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