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world is too much with us; we are a f flicted with the idea that we are doing nothing unless we are fussily running to and fro. As a people, we are of a very practical turn o f mind. “W e believe,” as some one has said, “in having all our irons in the fire, and consider the time not spent between the anvil and the fire as lost, or much the same as lost.” Yet no time is more profitably spent than that which is set apart for quiet musing, for talking with God, for looking up to heaven. W e cannot have too many o f these open spaces in life, hours in which the soul is left ac cessible to any sweet thought or influence it may please God to send. — S t r e a m s i n t h e D e se r t . JANUARY 27 “Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee” (Job 22:21). Prayer is the peace o f our spirit, the stillness o f our thoughts, the evenness of our recollection, the seat o f our meditation, the rest o f our cares, and the calm o f our tempest. Prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, o f untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter o f charity and the sister of meek ness. He that prays to God with a troubled and discomposed spirit is like him that re tires into a battle to meditate, and sets up his closet in the outquarters o f an army, and chooses a frontier garrison to be wise in.— S e le c t e d . JANUARY 28 "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Cor. 6:10). Deep sorrows sometimes prove to be God’s masked mercies. To how many stricken souls has the darkness proved better than the garish day? For the ladder has been set up in it, which touches heaven; and as the daugh ters o f sorrow went up, the angels o f con solation have come down. — S e le c t e d . When this world’s account is summed up, we shall find that we owe more to grief than we do to joy, and that sorrow has been the veiled angel of God come to teach us some of the deepest lessons which can ever be learned by human students. — J o s e p h P a r k e r . JANUARY 29 “In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted” (Heb. 2:18). The Lord is a living Person o f infinite skill, tenderest love, deepest sympathy. He knows all about the heart which surrenders itself to Him, and all about its difficulties; and He is indeed able to deal with them in His divine, personal action. Tempted Christian, entangled in the net o f your own mistakes—there stands your Deliverer! He is not yourself. He is not an idea, a prin ciple, an abstract truth. He is Jesus Christ. Look Him in the face with the unreserved readiness that He should deal with the net, and with you in regard to it, and He will surprise you by the manifesta tion o f His power. —H. C. G. M o u l e . JANUARY 30 “ Workers together with him” (2 Cor. 6 : 1 ). The chisel cannot carve a noble statue— it is only cold, dead steel. Yet neither can the artist carve the statue without the
very hour the action answered to the word. Just as true are all His individual promises to the believer. They are all “ Yea and Amen” in Christ Jesus. He has guaran teed them. The promises o f God form a great check-book. Every one is endorsed by the Mediator, and His word and honor are pledged to their fulfillment. T o make His “Yea” into “Amen,” you must sign your name upon the back o f the promise and then personally appropriate it. “ All I have is thine,” said H e; “A ll things are yours” He saith again; All the promises for thee Are sealed with Jesus Christ’s Amen. i — A . B . S im p s o n . JANUARY 24 “ Thy kingdom comet” (Matt. 6:10). Weary o f man’s rule, we long for God’s. Sick at heart with this world’s scenes o f evil—man spoiling man, man enslaving man, man wounding man, man defrauding man, man treading upon man—we long for the setting up o f the righteous throne. Oh, what a world will this be when man’s will as well as man’s rule shall be ex changed for Christ’s rule and w ill; when God’s “ will shall be done on earth even as it is done in heaven” ! It is our joy to think that this kingdom is near; and that there are no centuries o f sin and wrong still in reserve either for the church or for the earth. Its nearness is our consolation. The hope that it will come cheers u s; but the thought that it is coming soon cheers us more. — H o r a t iu s B o n a r . JANUARY 25 "I will praise thee, 0 Lord, with my whole heart” (Psa. 9 :1 ). Here is a man who sets himself to the business of praise, as though he were about to engage in a great matter. He does not turn to it in any easy, lazy, and indifferent manner. He sets about it with undivided attention. He awakes his entire personality and devotes all his manifold powers to the ministry of thanksgiving. “With my whole heart” he says. The word “heart” is a spa cious word. It includes all the interior things, all the central things. It includes the will, the power that lies behind all the faculties, the energy that contributes reso lution and purpose and directive force. It includes the intellect, and, primarily, among the powers o f the mind, the facul ties o f memory and imagination. When a man comes to the ministry o f praise, his memory must be wide awake. He must call to mind the things that have been. His imagination must also be active. He must be able to pierce the outer vestures of things. . . And he must also bring to the ministry o f praise the worship of his feelings. Come, will! and make my praise forceful. Come, intellect! and make it en lightened. And come, feeling! and make it affectionate. All that is within me, praise and bless His holy name.—J. H. J owett . “My days o f praise shall ne’er be past While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.” JANUARY 26 “And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide” (Gen. 24:63). W e should be better Christians if we were more alone; we should do more if we attempted less, and spent more time in re tirement and quiet waiting upon God. The
JANUARY 23 "All the promises o f God in him are Yea and Amen” (2 Cor. 1:20). God never forgets His word. Long ago, He promised a Redeemer; and although He waited four thousand years, the prom ise at last was most surely fulfilled. He promised Abraham a son; and although a quarter o f a century o f resting intervened, the promise at last came literally true. He promised Abraham the land o f promise as an inheritance; and although four hun dred years o f trial intervened, at last the land was possessed. He promised Jere miah that after seventy years the captives should return from Babylon, and on the
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