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ing of the life is checked, Friction begets heat; and with the heat, most dangerous conditions are created. Do not let thy bearings get hot. Let the oil of the Lord keep thee cool, lest by reason of an un holy heat thou be reckoned among the evil-doers.— The Silver Lining. September 19 — ‘‘There hath not failed one word o f all his good promise" (1 Ki- 8:56). Some day we shall understand that God has a reason in every NO which He speaks through the slow movement of life. “Somehow God makes up to us.”- How often, when,His people are worrying and perplexing themselves about their prayers not being answered, is God answering them in a far richer way! Glimpses of this we see occasionally, but the full revelation of it remains for the future. Oh, for the faith that does not make haste, but waits patiently for the Lord, waits patiently for the explanation that shall come in the end, at the revelation of Jesus Christ! When did God take any thing from a man, without giving him manifold more in return? Suppose that the return had not been made immediately manifest, what then? Is today the limit of God’s working time? Has He no pro vinces beyond this little world? Does the door of the grave open upon nothing but infinite darkness and eternal silence? Yet, even confining the judgment within the hour of this life, it is true that God never touches the heart with a trial without in tending to bring in upon it some grander gift, some tenderer benediction. He has attained to an eminent degree of Chris tian grace who knows how to wait. — Selected. September 20— “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an in heritance, obeyed” (Heb. 11:8). Whither he went, he knew not; it was enough for him to know that he went with God. He leaned not so much upon the promise as upon the Promiser. He looked not on the difficulties of his lot, but on the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, who had deigned to ap point his course, and would certainly vin dicate Himself. O glorious faith! This is thy work, these are thy possibilities; con tentment to sail with, sealed orders, be cause of unwavering confidence in the wisdom of the Lord High Admiral : will ingness to rise up, leave all, and follow Christ, because of the glad assurance that earth’s best cannot bear comparison with heaven’s least.— F. B. M. — o— September 21— “ Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed” (Heb. 12:12, 13). This is God’s word of encouragement to us to lift up the hands of faith, and HOME STUDY COURSE For the Sunday School Teacher Covers every essential. Seminary Certificate granted. Strong faculty. Personal instruction. Standard resident and non-resident courses. Evening School of Theology for Bible School graduate. Illustrated catalogue. American Theological Seminary, Roxborough, Phila. Pa.
self-pity is allowed to set in, that is the end of us—until it is cast out utterly from us. Joseph turned over everything in joy ous trust to God, and so the keeper of the prison turned over everything to Joseph. Lord Jesus, when the prison doors close in on. me, keep me trusting and keep my joy full and abounding. Prosper Thy work through me in prison; even there, make me free indeed. s -—Messages for the Morning Watch. September 17— "I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth” (Isa. 58:14). Those who fly through the air in air ships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that ? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away toward the sun. Suffer ings are God’s winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God’s hurricanes, but they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God’s heavens. You have seen in the sum mer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe. But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out its blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed, and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed. Human life is worked out according to exactly the same prin ciple. When the storm breaks, the atmos phere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth.— Selected. —o— September 18—" Fret not thyself” (Psa. 37:1). Do not get into a perilous heat about things. If ever heat were justified, it was surely justified in' the circumstances out lined in this Psalm. Evil-doers were mov ing about clothed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously . every day. “Workers of iniquity” were climbing into the supreme places of power, and were tyrannizing over their less fortunate brethren. Sinful men and women were stalking through the land in the pride of life and basking in the light and comfort of great prosperity, and good men were becoming heated and fretful. “Fret not thyself.” Do-not get unduly heated. Keep cool. Even in a good cause, fretfulness is not a wise helpmeet. Fretting only heats the bearings; it does not generate the steam. It is no help to a train for the axles to get hot; their heat is only a hin drance, When the axles get heated it is because pf unnecessary friction; dry sur faces are grinding together, which ought to be kept in smooth cooperation by a delicate cushion of oil. Is it not a sugges tive fact that this word “ fret” is closely akin to the word “ friction” and is an in dication of absence of the anointing oil of the grace o f God? In fretfulness, a lit tle bit of grit gets into the bearings—some slight disappointment, some ingratitude, some discourtesy—and the smooth work
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