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speaking, the rod is used to measure pun ishment. Let me tell you how it was made real to my heart. The other day, I was standing by the window watching a group o f workmen repair a small water pipe that had burst, when my attention was drawn to a flock o f sheep coming down on the same side of the street. When they got to the stream of water that was still running from the broken pipe, most o f them passed quickly over it, but one, a little timid, hung back of all the rest, afraid to venture just one step ahead. The shepherd came close to it, and with his rod gave it a gentle touch and encouraged it kindly to go on. The sheep recognized the shepherd’s touch im mediately, and without fear, it stepped through the water and proceeded on its way contentedly. Maybe God’s children are sometimes just a little fearful about the next step when they come to a crisis on their heaven ly way. Be comforted, the “chief shep herd” will be close at hand to steady you with His rod. The obstacle before you will then cease to be a hazard. — G ospel B anner . JUNE 6 T he D ifference L ove M akes “And he shall serve him fo r ever” (Ex. 21 :6). A promise only different from a threat by one thing, lov e! The Hebrew servant had trial o f his master’s service for six years, and in the seventh he might go out free if he would. But then, “if the servant shall plainly say [plainly, avowedly, no mistake about it], I love my master . . . I will not go out free,” then, publicly and legally, he was sealed to his service for ever. It all depended on the love. . . . It was not till the servant had owned his love, and had given up the rest o f his time in the flesh, and had his ear bored, that the word was spoken, “He shall serve him for ever” ; and it is only the loving and conse crated heart that leaps up for joy at the heavenly prospect. “And his servants shall serve him.” Think about it a little. Able to put all the new rapture of praise into living action for Him 1 Able to go on ser ving Him day and night, without any weariness in it! How full of surprises the new service will be! New powers, new and entirely congenial fellow workers, new spheres, new ministries; only two things not new, if our earthly service has been true—no new power, and no new end and aim, but the same, even His power and His g lory ! — F rances R idley H avergal . JUNE 7 C oming G lory “I f God so clothe the grass o f the field” (Matt. 6:30). I f the flower of the grass—the bloom o f fading flesh in this smitten world of sin— be so unspeakably fair to look upon, and ravishing to our hearts, what shall be that body of glory fashioned like unto His glo rious body wherewith our heavenly Fa ther shall clothe us when our hidden life appears? “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” All the things we see are tran sient, like the lilies. What shall the ever lasting things be—the incorruptible body, the building o f God, the city that hath foundations, eternal in the heavens? How prodigally God scatters over barren moors the golden glories o f the gorse in spring, and in autumn the glowing amethyst o f the heather ! How every hedgerow in May breathes tender perfume! What a soft
pink flush is upon the orchard when that loveliest o f blossoms clothes the apple tree! How delicate in the year’s prime are the wood flowers—primrose and violet— that nestle at the big roots of budding oaks! With what splendor o f tint doth the year droop when cornflower and poppy glow among the ruddy wheatlands, and all the woods begin to burn through flame- color—into russet 1 If God be so rich that He can afford to spend a glory like this upon the grass o f the field and on the waste and lonely places o f an earth that grows old in sin and is soon to pass away, what shall the home be where He prepares for us an eternal resting-place beside Him self—a paradise at the heart of heaven? — J. O swald D ykes . JUNE 8 W atch Y our W ords . “ Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me, and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God” (Psa. 50:23). Keep a watch on your words, my darlings, For words are wonderful things; They are sweet, like the bees’ fresh honey— Like the bees, they have’ terrible stings; They can bless like the warm, glad sun shine, And brighten a lonely life ; They can cut, in the strife o f anger, Like an open, two-edged knife. May peace guard your lives, and ever From the time o f your early youth, May the words that you daily utter Be the words o f beautiful truth. — K eswick C alendar . JUNE 9 L awful b ' ut not E xpedient “ That no man put a stumblingblock . . . in his brother’s way” (Rom . 14:13). Purity touches the pocket as well as the heart of the people o f God. A thing kept back from the rightful owner is a cause of impurity to him who holds it. “ Ye have robbed me . . . in tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse” (Mai. 3:8,9). Purity touches our relationship to others. A thing harmless in itself to you becomes impure or wrong if it harms another by your use o f it. Here is much need for the Lord to be inquired of, and His Word studied, that we may not, in things lawful to ourselves, create a stumblingblock to our neighbors. Practically, if twenty things are lawful to me, and I can use them with a clear conscience, I may do so, at the outset. But if by two o f them I should cause a weak brother so stumble, and by two I should offend a Jew, and by two more should hinder an unbeliever from listening to the gospel, then my path is clear. The fourteen remaining things are enough for m e; and I shall be far hap pier in the fellowship of God with those fourteen, than with the twenty, with a cloud between my soul and my Lord. —H ubert B rooke . JUNE 10 G ood C ompany “ The Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 3:15). Read the Bible, and it brings you into the association o f the best people that ever lived. You stand beside Moses, and learn his meekness; beside Job and learn his pa-
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