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broken fellowship. A Christian father came home one day and was greeted in a half hearted way by his small son. Seeing a cloud on the usually bright little face, the father asked, “Have you been a good boy?” In two words came the answer: “Partly not.” But the blue eyes moved restlessly and the lips moved slowly as the story was told of a quarrel with sister. The father’s heart went out in sympathy at those first two words, hut he knew there was more to come. So the Heavenly Father’s heart is touched when a child of His realizes that he has sinned; but a wrong act must be confessed as sin if fellowship is to be re stored. When this is done, a Christian can rest upon the fact that “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin,” and that “he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un righteousness.” ■—S unday S chool T imes .. OCTOBER IS “I delight to do thy will, O my God” (Psa. 40:8). Laid on Thine altar, O my Lord divine, Accept my gift this day, for Jesus’ sake; Ipiave no jewels to adorn Thy shrine, Nor any world-famed sacrifice to make; But herd' I bring within my trembling hand This Will of mine—a thing that seemeth : small, And only Thou, sweet Lord, canst under stand How, when I yield Thee this, .1 yield; mine all! Hidden therein,^ Thy searching eye can see: Struggles of. passion, visions "of delight, All that I love, br am, or fain would be— Deep loves, fond hopes, and longings infinite. It hath been wet with tears and dimmed with signs, Clenched in my grasp, till beauty it hath none. Now, i from Thy footstool, where it van quished lies, - The prayer ascendeth.- May Thy will be done. ,Take it, O Father, ere my courage fail, And merge it so in Thine own will, that e’en If in some desperate hour my cries prevail, And Thou give back my gift, it may have been So changed, so purified, so fair have grown, . So one with Thee, so filled with peace divine, I may not know or feel it as mine own, But, gaming back my will, may find it Thine. — S elected . OCTOBER 16 “ Therefore . . . he ye steadfast, un movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord” (I C<>r. 15:58). . Doctors tell us that when the body be comes chilled, the ever-present germs of various diseases find their chance to de velop. To keep warm is one of the sound est rules o f health. The analogy holds good in the spiritual state. \When faith and love grow cold, temptations attack the soul in ever-growing numbers. We must keep up the warmth o f zeal and consecration if we are to be strong and healthy Christians. To exercise ourselves daily in some service for God is a good way to keep warm. Are we trying it? — J. R. M iller . Strangely warm and tender grew the heart of that timid Sunday-school teacher who obeyed the unwanted impulse to re
trace his steps to a certain retail shoe store, and there to win .for Christ the dynamic young salesman who later, as D. L. Moody the evangelist, shook two continents for God. Do you, like him, know the glow that attends the “go” ? — S elected . OCTOBER 17 “I shall be anointed with fresh oil” ( Psa. 92:10). ' .. ’ v It is our privilege to be anointed with fresh oil. Such was the glad assurance of the man after God’s own heart. There is nothing stale in God’s household economy. “The anointing which ye received of him abideth in y o »M (l John 2:27). Let us never rest satisfied with anything less than that indefinable and sacred grace, called “unction.” We cannot analyze.it, or under stand why it effects what learning and elo quence fail to accomplish. But we detect it when it is present; we miss it when absent. With this, the slightest words strike home to the hearers”: hearts as the message of God. Without it, the most eloquent sen tences are like feathered arrows, which fall useless at the archer’s feet. “ Thou anointest my head with oil.” •’ B. M eyer . OCTOBER 18 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown o f rejoicing? Are not even ye?” (1 Thess. 2:19). Not only is God the portion and ever lasting inheritance o f His people, but the converse is also true, that God’s special in heritance is His people—and this, o f the two, is perhaps the greater mystery. That we, as His creatures, should find all our blessedness in God is wonderful, but that He, the infinite Creator of heaven and earth, should find His special joy in fellow ship with those who have been redeemed by the blood o f His Son is still more won derful.— D avid B aron . Lord, I cannot understand how I can in any way contribute to Thy pleasure, but I can—Thou hast said it ; and I want to— Thou knowest it. Oh, let me be unknown, unsung, but a joy to Thy heart forever! And whatever of pain to me is involved in the answering o f this my prayer, I welcome it—even through tears—that I may satisfy and glorify the Lord that bought me.— M. M. C.. OCTOBER 19 “I f any o f you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally” (Jas, 1:5). Wisdom is the last thing of the need of which men become sensible. Worldly wis dom, indeed, they desire to have in larger measure; but it is the rarest thing in the world to see a man who is sensible o f his need o f that wisdom which God gives in answer to prayer. This only shows how amazingly unwise men are. It is because they have not this wisdom at all that they are conscious of no need. . . . But as the world is constituted, it is impossible for man by dint of getting to satisfy this de sire; or by quaffing the cup o f pleasure to attain happiness; or by clothing himself with authority to escape all human enmity. Let God, however, breathe into his soul, let heavenly wisdom become the tenant o f his heart, and lo ! “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” fall harmless at his feet.— (G eorge B owen . OCTOBER 20 “ Yk also helping together by prayer for us” i|2 Cor. 1:11). 5
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