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A station fin the China Inland Mission was peculiarly blessed of God. Inquirers were more1 numerous, and more easily turned from dumb idols to serve the living God than at other stations. The difference was a theme of conversation and wonder In England, Dr. J. Hudson Taylor was warmly greeted at a certain place by a stranger who showed great interest in his mission work. He was so particular and intelligent in his questions concerning one missionary and the locality in which he labored, seemed so well acquainted with his helpers, inquirers, and the difficulties of that particular station, that Dr. Taylor’s curiosity was aroused to find out the rea son of this intimate knowledge. He now learned that the stranger and the successful missionary had covenanted together as co workers. The missionary kept his home brother informed o f all the phases o f his labor. He gave him the names o f inquirers stations, hopeful characters, and difficulties’ and all these the home worker was wont to spread out before God in prevailing prayer. —A. T. P ierson . There are ministers unlettered, Not of earth’s great and wise, Yet mighty and unfettered Their eagle prayers arise, Free o f the heavenly storehouse! For they hold the master-key That opens all the fullness O f God’s great treasury. They bring the needs of others, And all things are their own, For their one grand claim is Jesus’ name Before their Father’s throne. ^ ,y -F . R. H avergal . OCTOBER 21 ‘‘ That ye may stand perfect and com plete m all the will o f God” (Col. 4:12). There is a point o f view from which the watchward of the Christian life is growth. But from another point o f view, the watch- ward is stand. If I would grow, striking root downward and bearing fruit upward the tree must not be transplanted and transplanted by its own restlessness. It must stand in the one soil in which the growth can take place, and just there where the heavenly Gardener has put it. “ Stand fast in the Lord,” says the apostle to an other church which was growing and flour ishing. Let “Thy will be done” be not a sigh, but a song. — H andley C. G. M oule . OCTOBER 22 "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matt. 6:13); B* the Greek, there is one word for temp tation and trial—temptation from the devil to lead us into sin; trial from the Lord to lead us into further fullness. How often in our life the temptation and the trial lie side by side! I believe that the word in this prayer implies both; and that the Lord is teaching us here the petition with a ref erence to both. Is not this the Gethsemane prayer over again—applied to man, and taken at its lowest level? . . . We cannot tell the full meaning of that prayer; but we know that the temptation and the trial made that hour one of awful agony—that was what He prayed to be delivered from if it were the will of His Father. And as to my trial and my temptation, I am led here to ask the Lord, “Lead me not into that; nevertheless not my will, but Thine, be done.”—J. E lder C u m m in g . OCTOBER 23 ,"The fruit o f the Spirit is . . . long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith meekness, temperance” (Gal. 5:22). ’
Full consecration begets humility. This is a robe which imparts to the wearer a true sense of personal unworthiness, lead ing such to esteem others ' better than themselves, and forever destroys the de sire for rank, or fame, and all high-mind- edness. Courtesy, gentleness, patience contentment with mean things, and will ingness to be accounted unworthy are characteristics o f humility, and therefore of consecration. The spikenard will shed abroad its fragrance, and the devoted dis ciple, like his Master, cannot be hid. He need not therefore proclaim himself.— G eorge C. N eedham . Oh, to be nothing, nothing, Only to lie at His feet, A broken and empty vessel For the Master’s use made mete. C — S elected . OCTOBER 24 "My soul, be thou silent unto God; for my expectation is from him” (Psa. 62:5). Our prayer so often consists in the utter ance o f our thoughts of what we need, that we give God no time to speak to us. Our prayers are often indefinite and vague. It is a great lesson to learn, that to be silent unto God is the secret of true adoration. Let us remember the promise, “In quiet ness and confidence shall be your strength.” It is as the soul bows itself before Him to remember His greatness and His holi ness, His power and His love, and seeks to give Him the honor and the reverence and the worship that are His due, that the heart will be opened to receive the divine impres sion of the nearness o f God and the work ing o f His power. Such worship of God —in which you bow low and ever lower in your nothingness, and lift up your thoughts to realize God’s presence as He gives Himself to you in Christ Jesus—is ffie sure way to.give Him the glory that is His due, and will lead to the highest bless edness to be found in prayer. ^ ( ¿ st -A ndrew M urray . OCTOBER 25 "That thou mightest . . . be filled with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 9:17). We cannot expect Him to be to us the Mighty God unless He is to us the Won derful Counsellor. What right have we to expect Him to come in and bless the Plans which we in our fleshly wisdom and independent spirit have devised? Learn, therefore, to lean on Him in all matters’ even in the most trivial, for who can tell what issues hang upon the most insignifi cant concern? When His guidance is obeyed, He follows it up by His omnipo tent working; but He is under no obliga tion to help us when we are following a self-chosen path.—J. G regory M antle . OCTOBER 26 "Being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness” (Rom. 6:22). I have people come to me again and again and say, I would not, of course, go to a polished-floor ball, but I suppose that there is no harm in a carpet-dance. I would not for anything go to see some of the impure plays of which I read or hear, but a good first-class moral theatre I suppose is all right for Christian people, is it not?” I cannot stop to weigh worldly pleasures in the scales as a chemist or a physician would measure out poisons. My Lord has called me to preach a life full of privilege, when all is consecrated to God; a life of honor and delight, in giving up everything to the Master. Such quibbling distinctions
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