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and find when the time arrives. It was no matter to David whether it was the lion, the bear, or this giant of the Philistines : it was all one to him, for in himself he was as weak in the presence of one as the other, but he went on quietly doing his duty, taking it for granted that God would be with him. This is faith. — J.N.D. April IS— ‘‘The peace of God which pass- eth all understanding" (Phil. 4:7). Bring me that peace of Thine, O my God. It is as the peace of the ocean, which holds depths beneath it. It is not thé rest of lifelessness, but the rest of balance. Thy patience is the patience, not of spentness, but of expectancy; it rests in hope. Bring me the peace of pulsa tion, the calm of courage, the endurance that springs from energy. Bring me the fortitude of fervor,- the repose through inner radiancy, the tenacity that is born of trust. Bring me the silence that comes from serenity, the gentleness that is bred of joy, the quiet that has sprung from quickened faith. When I hear Thee in the whirlwind, there will be a great calm.— George Matheson. “We are missing the Christianity of meditation, of communion, of inner event”—so thinks à great m o d e r n preacher. It is to be feared the statement is too sadly true. Certainly, if we are missing the kind of Christianity referred to, it is a great miss, and we cannot but be terrible losers by it. There can be no doubt that, in these days of push and hurry, religion is developing a tendency to fussy activity, which is very far from healthful. We are in danger of a mere “rushing” holiness* a bustling “outdoor” piety forever on the trot. We are so busy in running the Lord’s errands for Him that we have no time to think His thoughts after Him ; we are so cumbered with the smaller cares of the Master’s household that we have scarcely time to keep up acquaintance with the Master Himself. In our extreme anxiety to live for Christ we are forgetting to live with Christ. One must try to live in both ways, in order to live well in either. It was the complaint of Dr. Chalmers : “I am almost bustled out of my spirituality.” We are exposed to the like danger, and must guard against it by living inwardly as well as outwardly, by cultivating a re ligion of thought as well as a religion of effort, by praying and pondering as well as working, by fostering in silence faith and fervor, hope and love, as well as by running to and fro in ceaseless activity. Martha’s business must not hinder Mary’s. It is only from the silent chamber of com munion, where in the intimacy of solitude the soul holds converse with Jesus, that we can step forth into the activity of men, “like an angel from the presence of God,” with the halo of a tender love, the elo quence of a direct message, and the ac cumulated force of a real experience.— S. Law Wilson. — o — April 16— “And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard His word" (Luke 10:39). — o —
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