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after the same degree of grace in our selves. Leave tomorrow’s trouble to tomor row’s strength; tomorrow’s work to to morrow’s time; tomorrow’s trial to to morrow’s grace and to tomorrow’s God. The torch of religion may be lit in the church but it does its burning in the shop and on the street. When faithfulness is most difficult, it is most necessary. Many people would reform but for the thought that they would have to refund.
Christ never told His disciples to stay at home and let sinners come to them. If we are dumb when God speaks to us, we shall be dumb when we try to speak to Him. Some of our worst falls are not those which the world sees. If you watch yourself narrowly, you will not be apt to pay yourself many compliments. More people are ready to shrink from sinners than they are from sin. It is so much easier to admire the grace of God in others than to pant
It is better for our professions to come short of our perfor mances than for our performances to come short of our profes sions. Perfect valor is to do without witnesses what one would do be fore all the world. If one has a propen sity for falling into the Are it is well to stay off the hearthrug. Prayer is not a de vice for getting our will done through heaven, but a desire
that God’s will may be done on earth. Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will. Right or wrong, the world will judge our doctrine by our deeds. No sermon seems too long to the woman who is wearing a new hat to church for the first time. The very best way to secure our own interest is to look after our Master’s. Half way to Christ is a dreadful place.
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rulers are always sneering at emotion alism in religion. When a church makes a failure at being religious it begins to cultivate aesthetics. The secret of the Lord is imparted to those who have no secrets from Him. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. The best interpreter of the love of God is the love of man. Trust not to appearances; the drum which makes much noise is filled with wind. Let the testing time be a trusting time. -
The wife spoken of as the “ weaker vessel” should remind us that we our selves are the weak. The furnace of affliction is one of God’s meeting places with His people. The great believers have been the un wearied waiters. Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills. Grace is better than ability and love of souls is better than talents. He who would fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch, A revival never comes within shout ing distance of a church whose chief
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