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own direct resistance, but by giving the • case over to Him whose the victory is. It is a victory of escape. —H. C. G. M o u l e . DECEMBER 5 “For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile” (1 Pet. 3:10). There is measureless ruin wrought in this world by the slanderer. Characters are blackened, friendships are destroyed, jealousies are aroused, homes are torn up, hearts are broken. Let us never take up an evil report, and give it wing on breath of ours. Let us never whisper an evil thing of another. We know not when it may end, to what it may grow, what ruin it may work. Words once spoken can never be gotten back again. We had bet ter learn to keep the door of our lips locked, and say no evil, ever, of any one. This is a silence we shall never regret. — J . R. M il l e r . One angry moment often does What we repent for years; It works the wrong We ne’er make right: By sorrow or by tears. — E l iz a C o o k . DECEMBER 6 “She felt . . . that she was healed” (Mk. 5:29). When you have to be told that you are cured, it would appear to me that the cure is somewhat doubtful. You who have been cured must tell everybody (and you can hardly help doing so) that you are cured, and that you are the authority for the statement. It is the healed man who testifies ; he says, “I know, once I was blind, now I see; I see you all; I see thé heavens and the earth; I do not need to be told by some man outside that I really have recovered my eyesight.” Yet that is what the poor church is always pining for; it is pining for somebody, to tell it that on the whole it is better than it used to be. I do believe in external testimony when the subject is so personal and so vital; I must hear what the per son himself has to say. Yet in pastoral visitation we come upon persons who are continually requiring to be told that, though they were blind last week, they can see this week; and they say in reply, “Are you sure of it? Are you perfectly clear in your own mind that I do see a little?” Never stoop to such whimpering. You as pastors of the church have no time to waste over people that require to be told seven times a day that they can see a little. They can see, or they can not see, arid they know it ; and they only know it, and the testimony must come from them. They must bear witness to the truth. What an army of preachers I have created in this one sentence given to me by the Holy Spirit! All Christians have to be witnesses, to be living testi monies, that they have become connected with the eternal fountains and are no longer in need of supply from inferior streams.— J o s e p h P a r k er . DECEMBER 7 “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matt. 25:34). Coming leads to overcoming; and over coming leads to welcoming. As you over-
“I wrestled for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes; of poor souls personally, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, from sun half-an-hour high till near dark, that I was wet all over with sweat; but oh, my dear Lord did sweat blood for such poor souls; I longed for more compassion.” Mark the words, “I was in such an agony from sun half-an- hour high till near dark” ! May we do what David Brainerd would not do, may we reverently whisper the word side by side with another and a greater word, “And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.” I say, was not Susquehannah a faint echo of Gethsemane? — J . H . J ow ett . DECEMBER 3 "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts o f the wicked” (Eph. 6: 16). Let Satan’s subtlety make thee more wise and wary thyself. Thou hast not a fool to deal with, but one that hath wit enough to spill thy comfort and spoil thy joy and narrowly watches. Take God in to thy counsel.— W il l ia m G u r n a l l . Let us recognize that there is the en emy whose purpose is to block the path of the church’s victory, and hinder it in the work of rescuing the perishing, and we shall better understand what St. Paul affirms, that prayer is warfare, a partner ship with the Holy Spirit in His attitude of judgment of sin, and in His antagonism to Satan (cf. Eph. 6:12). — G ordon B. W a t t . DECEMBER 4 ‘‘Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net” (Psa. 25:15). One great requisite in a net is that it should be more or less concealed; it must be imperceptible to the victim, as it lies hidden in the grass or among the bushes. The net is thus an apt parable of such spiritual risks and temptations as lie in the familiar path of every day, things which do not startle us into a sense of danger; things which, indeed, we do not see unless we are forewarned. They are things which may come in the form of the commonest of our common incidents; small occasions for the loss of patience or of purity of thought; small provoca tions to envy, to deviations from truth in daily intercourse, or in ordinary business; small sparks to kindle pride or vanity; small excuses for sloth and self-indul gence ; in short, petty opportunities to forget that we are not our own, and to al low ourselves in what is not according to the will of God. And then, near the net, though out of sight, there stands the fowler. The great organizer of the forces of evil is there, the personal enemy ever on the watch to spread the snare for the soul. He knows all too well how to throw the net full upon the path, yet not in the sight of the bird. Much net-like difficulty may be precluded by common precautions taken in a Christian spirit, by avoidance betimes of place, and company, and sight, and book which have a plain tendency to mis chief. No Scripture tells Christians to be reckless, or to be unpractical in dealing with temptation, or to expect the Lord to do for us what we really can do for ourselves. In a thousand ca.ses, the real victory over temptation is won, not by out
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