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spiritual outlook may be very dark (it often is) but we may be sure that His kingdom cannot be destroyed. We may see no result of all our labor for Him, but we have His promise that it shall bring forth fruit in due season. “I, even I only, am left,” says Elijah, but God counts seven thousand (by no means a contemptible proportion in so small a population as that of Israel) who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Whether he were the last of God’s people or no, he should have been in Samaria, doing the prophet’s work and declaring the prophet’s message. We sin when we allow pessimism to drive us from our place in the vineyard of the Lord. Do not let us start counting heads ; the enumeration of His chosen ones is the Divine pre rogative. . ¿UA ' J m J uly 13. “Is thy God. . . . able.?’’ — Dan. 6:20.. OUR God is that person or thing which stands highest in our estimation and for which, in the last resort, we are willing to abandon all other persons and things. There are many idols worshipped among men which are not made of wood or stone. Fame, pleasure, ease, wealth, self-indulgence,—these, and a host besides, are among the deities of earth. Let each man ask him self : “Is mine an able god?”; Can the central object of his desire, the thing or the person who really dominates his life, deliver him in the time of danger or distress? The thing looks radiant in the sunshine; what aspect will it wear in the hours of gloom? The.companionship is glorious in the day of prosperity; will it stand him in good stead when the midnight of sorrow or adversity arrives ? The cult adds undoubted, almost incredible, zest to life ; can it save him from terror or despairjjwhen he stands upon the brink of the tomb? What is the use of a god that cannot save? If it be not able to shut the lions’ mouths, it would appear that our homage and our oblations have been wasted. Those who serve the LORD are under no appre hension on points like these. They know that they have an able God—One Who is “unto the uttermost able.” They can sing : “I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless.”' They are assured that “no weapon formed against them can prosper.” Happy is the man who has an able God. 11 « mw . J uly 14. “That thou doest, do quickly." — Jno. 13:27. . TO Judas, this was a permission of judgment; it comes to us as an exhortation to promptitude. They say : “Procrastination is the thief of time;” it is more, it is the robber of opportunity, of usefulness, of honor. How many things worth doing we were “going to do—tomorrow,” but, alas ! tomorrow never came ; or, if it did, we had either forgotten our purpose, of we rele gated it to another “tomorrow,” as nugatory as the last. He was a wise man who wrote : “The bread that bringeth strength I want to give, Satan does not try to quench good desires and purposes in some men’s minds ; he simply persuades them to postpone their execution—he is well aware that it comes to much the same thing in the end. When will men learn that the thing which is always “to be done” is very likely to fail of accomplishment; that the only time at their disposal is time present ; that golden opportunities, allowed to pass by without appropriation, seldom or never return? Wasted resolutions lie around us on every hand like withered leaves of autumn—the world might have been a summer forest of shade and beauty had they not been thus allowed to fade. It is the “might have been’s,” not the impos sibilities, of life that will sadden us in its latter days. Thé water pure that bids the thirsty live ; I want to help the fainting day by day; I’m sure I shall not pass again this way.”
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