all tne joys and consecrations df a great revival. And what a blessing a true and f ar reaching revival is some of us know. This generation has not seen one! Would to God they might, (c) They renewed the. oath of alle- giance to the King Eternal and Invis- ible. And He renewed His covenant
favors; Peace smiled upon them. Pros- perity took up its residence among them, and they vindicated the assur- ance for the Lord was with them while they were with Him. Asa excélléd Jer- oboam, in doing things, for he brought the Lord down from heaven to dwell with men.
Pith and Pivot—T. C. H. The lesson today is of house cleaning,— a good thing for a nation, a community, a church, a home or an individual. The natural order of events is evinced by the accumulation of a good deal of rubbish It was spring time for Judah when Asa came to his own. The four- teenth chapter gives an account of the outward-reformation'of the Kingdom and the peace and prosperity which followed ; the fifteenth chapter r.ecites the inner reformatiofi which touched the heart and lif £. of Judah. It came about through the Word of the Lord, and this was the soul of the message: "The Lord is with you.while you are with Him." When Asa heard these words, he became bold and went to work with a will, house-cleaning, and it was pretty thoroughly done. He removed his mother from being queen, and cut down her idols. What a pity he stopped at the high places. He was ^ good man nevertheless, and we praise Him for doing so well. The lesson is a simple one. Christian men need to keep in> step with God, ''How can t\yo walk together except they be agreed." Amos 3:3. We would like to have God come down and walk with us- would like to have Him bless our plans and smile on our scheme' We must i change our thought about the whole matter. We need to go to work and clean up our own house,—then tackle the church. If there is to be any measure of spiritual prosperity and power, we must get at the foot of things. We will no doubt find much that needs to be thrown out on the rubbish heap. Companions will have to. be cut; rebel ways renounced; worldly pleasures put in the fur- nac'e; unholy desires and. unlawful ambitions forsaken. We may have to use the knife,-to sever some domestic and social ties so that with cleam garments we may walk as Enoch did with the Lord. If things are not "doing" with us, it is because we have forsaken the Lord and our houses are unclean. If we walk in the light as He is.in the light, we will'have fellowship in suffering, service and glofy. When we thus walk with Him, others will forsake their evil ways, and go with us. Let us abide in Him. "When we walk with the Lord In the light of His Word, What a glory He sheds on our way." "
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