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presence. Thus an infinite calm ,comes to keep our heart and mind. He giveth quietness.”— Selected. — o— September 27— “Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect o f this, even if now for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials. The sorrow comes in order that the testing o f your faith, being more precious than that o f gold . . . may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the reappearing o f Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 1 :6, 7, Weymouth). The Lord has a gracious purpose for us in every trial of faith. Having redeemed us and made us joint heirs with Christ, He gives us the privilege o f laying up treasures in heaven. Saint Peter said that “the trial o f yout faith” [or, as some Greek scholars translate it, ‘your tested faith,’ ] will be found unto [your] praise and glory and honor at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” By liberality, by devotion, by service, we may lay up some little trea sure “where thieves do not break through nor steal.” If to this He would add the treasure of tested faith, shall we shrink back, or think it strange when fiery trials come to prove us? It is very blessed if we can trust our Lord, but is it not even more blessed if He can trust us ? He could trust Mary and Martha, so He was silent when they sent to Him, and suffered their brother to die. Hudson Taylor used to say that every trial was a mark of our heavenly Father’s confidence; and there is a deep truth in this. Are we failing Him in any way? How much better to say, though things seem against u s: “Lord, if
thou hadsi been here . . . yet even now I know.”—John Southey. —o— September 28— “No man should be moved by these afflictions: for . . . we are appointed thereunto " (1 Thess. 3:3). We all love the sunshine; but the Arabs have a proverb, “All sunshine makes a desert.” It is a matter for common obser vation that the graces of Christian living are more often apparent in the case of those who have passed through great tribulation. God desires to get as rich crops as possible from the soil of our na tures. There are certain plants o f the Christian life, such as meekness, gentle ness, kindness, humility, which cannot come to perfection if the sun of prosper ity always shines. We often shrink from the lessons set us at school, and look out of the windows, longing for release; but some day we shall be glad for those hard lessons acquired from the hornbook of pain. The tears of those who suffer' ac cording to the will o f God are spiritual lenses and windows of agate. As the weights of the clock, or the ballast in the vessel, are necessary for their right or dering, so is trouble in the soul-life. The sweetest scents are only obtained by tre mendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine snow solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary’s wheel; the noblest statutes have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with con summate care and foresight. —Doily Devotional Commentary.
September 29— “I haa/e seen the Master” (John 20:18, Weymouth.). Has that been your experience today? All through the busy hours have you been conscious o f His presence, heard His voice, and caught His smile? This is no myth, no idle fancy; it is the right of every child of God that he should enjoy shadowless Communion with the Master. How the sight of some people always freshens us up! And, on the contrary, meeting others sometimes sends a shadow across our pathway. “None of us liveth to himself,” and we are shedding shadow or sunshine around us. Even our very thoughts leave an impression. “ Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” Oh, then let us keep in the sunshine of the Master’s presence, that He, dwelling in us, may shine through us and so lure others to Him!— Selected. September 30— “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day” (Gen. 32: 24). Left alone! What different sensations those words conjure up to each of us. To some they spell loneliness and desolation, to others rest and quiet. To be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with Him is a foretaste of heaven. If His follow ers spent more time alone with Him, we should have spiritual giants again. The Master set us an example. Note how often He went to be alone with God. He had a
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