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fast and firm across the road as a traveler approaches it. If he stops before he gets to it, it will not open. But if he will drive right at it, his wagon wheels press the springs below the roadway, and the gate swings back to let him through. He must push right on at the closed gate, or it will continue to be closed. This illustrates the way to pass every barrier on the road of duty. Whether it is a river, a gate or a mountain, all the child of God has to do is to go for it. If it is a river, it will dry up when you put your feet in its water. If it is a gate, it will fly open when you are near enough to it, and are still push ing on. I f it is a mountain, it will be lifted up and cast into the sea when you come squarely up, without flinching, to where you thought it was. Is there a great barrier across your path of duty now? Just go for it in the name of the Lord, and it will not be there 1 —Streams in the Desert. — o— September 15— “Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die,, it re mains a single grain, but if it dies away in the ground, the grain is freed to spring up in a plant bearing many grains" (John 12: 24, Moffatt). Go to the old burying ground of North hampton, Mass., and look upon the early grave of David Brainerd, beside that of the fair Jerusha Edwards, whom he loved but did not live to wed. What hopes, what expectations for Christ’s cause went down to the grave with the wasted form of that young missionary of whose work nothing now remained but the dear memory, and a few score of swarthy Indian converts 1 But that majestic old Puritan saint, Jona than Edwards, who had hoped to call him his son, gathered up the memorials o f his life in a little book, and the b o o k took wings and flew beyond the sea and alighted on the table of a Cambridge stu dent, Henry Martyn. Poor Martynl Why should he throw himself away, with all his scholarship, his genius, his opportuni ties 1. What had he accomplished when he turned homeward from “ India’s coral strand,” broken in health, and dragged himself northward as far as that dreary khan at Tocat by the Black Sea, where he crouched under the piled-up saddles, to cool his burning fever against the earth, and there died alone? To what purpose was this waste? Out of that early grave of Brainerd, and the lonely grave of Mar tyn far away by the splashing of the Eu- xine Sea, has sprung the noble army of modern missionaries. —Leonard Woolsey Bacon. — o— September 16— “And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison . . . But Jehovah was with Joseph; . . . and that which he did, Jehovah made it to prosper" (Gen. 39:20:23). When God lets us go to prison because we have been serving Him, and when He goes there with us, prison is about the most blessed place in the world that we could be. Joseph seems to have known that. He did not sulk and grow discour aged and rebellious because it did not “pay to do right, anyway.” If he had, the prison-keeper would never have trusted him so. Joseph does not seem to have pitied himself. Let us remember that if
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I cannot do it alone; The waves run fast and high, And the fogs close chill around, And the light goes out in the sky; But I know that We Two shall win — in the end.: —Jesus and I. I cannot row it myself — The boat bn . the raging sea — But beside me sits Another, Who pulls or steers—with me; And I know that We Two shall come safe into port, —His child and He. Coward and wayward and weak, I change with the changing sky; Today, so eager and brave, Tomorrow, not caring to try. But He never gives in; so We Two shall win! —Jesus and I. Strong and tender and true, Crucified once for me; Ne'er will He change, 1 know, Whatever I may be. But all He says I must do, Ever from sin to keep free; We shall finish our course, and reach Home at last! —His child and He. — Selected. September 13—" Whoso putteth h is trust in the Lord shall be safe" (Prov. 29:25). ♦For yourself, dear little thing, whatever the near bothers or the far griefs may be, you and all your matters are in the dear Saviour’s hand, and He says, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” I like to take a still simpler Saxon word and say, “My grace is quite enough for thee.” Yes, “quite enough,” dear, for all the sorrows and all the trials, little ones as well as great, and all the weakness and all the in sufficiency and all the coldness vand hard ness of heart; quite enough for you in spite of all 1 Let the Lord lead you. Let Him have you altogther. Be His entirely, without any reserve. —Frances Ridley Havergal. Remember our Lord Jesus tells us He came that we “might have abundance” (R. V., margin). —o— September 14— “ When thou goest, thy way shall be opened up before thee step by step" (Prov. 4:12, Free Translation). The Lord never builds a bridge o f faith except under the feet o f the faith-filled traveler. If He built the bridge a rod ahead, it would not be a bridge o f faith. That which is of sight is not of faith. There is a self-opening gate which is sometimes used in country roads. It stands
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