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ting with the question, What shall I, what must I, do to use my time aright? Spiritual fulness brings with it a rest and a liberty and an open-eyed discernment of God’s will which will meet both risks as nothing else can. This holy filling and fulness is no isolated thing in the Christ ian life. It .is intensely connected with the one fountairi and mine of alT bless ing, the Lord Jesus Christ. Will not the great evidence of spiritual fulness be that the Lord Jesus Christ fills our inner world with His blessed power and pres ence,; “ dwelling in us, and we in him” ? “I will come in to him, and sup with him and he with me.” —Handley C... G. Moule. • —o—“ ■ January 5— ‘‘God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you” '(1 Sam. 12:23). Have We sinned against the Lord in ceasing to pray for one another and for the Lord’s work? Human intercession is essential to God’s work. Jesus is ever carrying our burdens, but our .interces sion is the complement of His, and prayer is our highest ministry. So let us pray, and some day we shall find that as our faith and love 1 have encircled the world, God’s providence has followed us in un swerving blessing. —A. B. Simpson.
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer 1 Thy wings shall my petition bear To Him whose truth and faithfulness Engage the waiting soul to bless: And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His word, and trust His grace, I’ll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer! —W. W. Walford. January 6 — “ Thou therefore endure hardness, as a g o od . soldier of. Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2;3). There was many a crisis time in my life, when eternal values hung in the bal ance ; but not at such times did I meet the supreme test o f character or loyalty to Thee, my Lord. That test comes to me in the weary round of multitudinous and monotonous duties, when no bugles sound their “haughty cry,” and when the thrill o f the conflict is past. It come§ in the early morn, when my body cries loud er for more sleep than my soul cries for Thee . . . It comes when all the odds are against me; when the comrade turns his back, the friend fails, the loved one mis understands, and failure is inevitable. It comes when my lips fain would speak words o f righteous indignation, while in my heart the still small voice whispers, “The servant o f the Lord must be gentle unto all men.” It comes, not so much when others have wronged me, as when I have wronged them, and my testimony has lost the ring of truth, of is-silenced. How shall I learn to endure? How shall I know the fortitude that is more than patient endurance, the strength to endure with courage, the power- to suffer without yielding? . . . If ever I learn it; I must learn it from Thee, “who endured the cross, despising the shame.” Point out to me the secret of Thine endurance, that I may make it mine. —Anna J. Lindgren. T-O-^ January 7— "And do them good” (Lk. 6:35). The posture of love will inevitably is sue in the doing of good. Let me put three words together, which; in their or der, suggest sequence of actual life: Be nevolence, Benediction, Benefaction! Be nevolence is the poet of love. To be benev olent is to be «/¿//-disposed. To be benev olent is to have the kindly inclination to woo and to win even our fiercest foe. Benevolence will issue in benediction. Benediction is benevolence expressed in speech. Our diction will be ordered and chastened by our benevolence. Unkindly criticism will be checked. Contempt will be changed into eulogy. The art of fault finding will be changed into the ministry of grace-finding. Malediction becomes benediction. Benevolence will also ex press itself in benefaction. Benefaction is benevolence expressed in service. In what kind of benefaction does love ex press itself? I cannot tell you. Love will discover its own ministry. “ If thine en- D E A G A TOWER CHIMES Played from keyboard, direct from organconsoleorautomatically. Price, $4375and up. Literature on request. J. C. Deagan, Inc., 191 Deagan Bldg., Chicago
enemy of slackness. She antagonizes lassitude and barrenness. She makes no peace with emotionalism and speculation. Her demand is that there be strength in the children of God and that strength shall go out from them, .since strength flows out .toward us from the source of all strength and the fountain of all mightiness. — Abraham Kuyper .- — -o — January 4 — “Rest in the Lord” (Psa. 37:7). ' Are you a busy person, ‘‘by thronging duties pressed” ? If you are, to be safe from the mischipf of worry, o f hurry, of anxiety, which is chilling your sympath ies, clouding, your looks, letting your lips offend, spoiling your kindness and will ingness of manner (and no Christian has a right to; neglect manner towards oth ers), you want nothing less than ;Scrip tural fulness. The fuller the life, the more this is necessary, or there will be serious' inconsistencies in common things, and the witness of your walk will be a very poor, one. On the other hand, are you a man or woman of leisure, able to do very much what you please with your hours? Quite as much you need spiritual fulness. Without it, you will very likely either sink info desultory self- pleasing to the ruin of your soul’s health, or you will be always restless and frét-
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