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December 16— “My heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him” (Psa. 28:7). The bird sat on the spray out in the darkness; the flower nestled in the grass; we lay down in our home; and all slept in the arms of God. The bird will trust Thee this day to give its morsel of food, and the flower will trust Thee for its fresh raiment; so may we trust Thee this day for all the needs of the body, the soul, the spirit.
Our trials are burned into us once, twice, thrice; and by God’s grace these beauti ful colors are there and they are there to stay forever.— Dr. Cortland Meyers. —o— December 13— “Produce your c a u s e , saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob” (Isa. 41:21). Over in Canada there lived an Irish saint called “Holy Ann.” She lived to be one hundred years old. When she was a young girl, she was working in a family for very small wages under a very cruel master and mistress. They made her carry water for a mile up a steep hill. At one time there had been a well dug there, but it had gone dry; but it stood there year after year. One night she was very tired, and she fell on her knees and cried to God; and while on her knees she read these words: “I will open . . . fountains in the midst of valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.” “Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons.” These words struck Holy Ann, and she produced her cause before the Lord. She told Him how badly they needed the water and how hard it was for her to carry the water up the steep hill; then she lay down and fell asleep. She had pleaded her cause and brought forth her strong reasons. The next morn ing early she was seen to take a bucket and start for the well. Someone asked her where she was going, and she replied, “I am going to draw water from the well.” “Why, it is dry,” was the answer. But that did not stop Holy Ann. She knew whom she had believed, and on she went; and, lo and behold, there in the well was eighty-three feet of pure, cold water, and she told me that the well never did run dry! That is the way the Lord can fulfill His promises. “Produce your cause, bring forth your strong rea sons,” and see Him work in your behalf. •—Life of Holy Ann. —o— December 14— “My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him” (Heb. 12:5). I have seen a farmer drive his plow share through the velvet greensward, and it looked like a harsh and cruel process; but the farmer’s eye foresaw the spring ing blades of wheat and knew that within a few months that torn soil would laugh with a golden harvest. Deep soul-plow- ings bring rich fruits of the Spirit. There are bitter mercies as well as sweet mer cies ; but they are all mercies, whether given in honey or given in wormwood.— Cuyler. —o— December 15— “He took P e t e r and James and John and went up into a mountain to pray. And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him” (Luke 9:28, 37). If we would learn how to be “more than conquerors,” we must go up with the Master to the Mount of Communion; then we shall come down with Him to victory!— Sel.
Sing a little song of trust, O my heart! Sing it just because you must, As leaves start; As flowers push their way through dust; Sing, my heart, because you must! Wait not for an eager throng— Bird on bird; ’Tis the solitary song That is heard. Every voice at dawn will start, Be a nightingale, my heart!
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