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ourselves and on our daily yielding and appropriating of His fullness. —N orthcote D eck . AUGUST 27 “Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord ’ (Jas. 5:7). The practical value of the blessed hope is suggested by this exhortation, “comfort one another with these words.” The blessed hope, so called in Titus 2:11-13, is set forth in the Scriptures as God’s ap pointed incentive to holy living, fruitful ness, and faithfulness. It has been the pole-star of the believer through the ages, and the so-called “dark ages” resulted chiefly, if not wholly, from the fact that the church of God listened to the enemy’s wiles and took her seat upon the world’s throne before her time had come to reign. It was never God’s intention that the church should become either the world’s mistress or its slave. “Be patient, there fore, brethren, unto the •coming of the Lord.” Though He tarry, wait for Him. “For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not [longer] tarry.” Our Lord is now rejected, And by the world disowned, By the many still neglected, And by the few enthroned; But soon He’ll come in glory, The hour is drawing nigh, For the crowning day is coming By and by. i i « —S elected . AUGUST 28 “By faith Jacob . . . blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped" (Heb. 11 : 21 ) . Lord, give me the blessing of Jacob— his best blessing—his power to bless. Doubtless it must come with a shrunk sinew. I cannot keep the song of the lark when I get the seal of sonship; I must enter into the pain of my Lord. Yet that pain is better than the world’s joy. I have heard men speak of pain as a blot on Thy universe. They are wrong; it is the birthright of the unblotted. Give me this birthright, O my God! Put the scar of sympathy in my heart. Let me feel my brother’s thorn. Make it impossible for me to stay at the top of the ladder, even though that be heaven. Send me down the golden stair—down to the pillows of stone, down to the nights of sorrow, down to the limbs that are languid, down to the souls that are sad. Send me with a breath of Eden, send me with a flower of Paradise, send me with a cluster of the grapes of Canaan. . . . Then shall I have the birthright of the firstborn; then shall I have the blessing of the mighty God of Jacob. —G eorge M atheson . AUGUST 29 “He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bounti fully shall reap also bountifully" (2 Cor. 9:6). Sowing righteousness is never and no where lost labor. Every act done by God’s grace, and at His bidding, is living and fruitful. It may appear to go out of sight, like seed beneath the furrow; but it will rise again. Sow on, Christian ! Sight will not follow the seed far; but
eyes, and therefore it must be so.” To man, seeing is believing. The trouble is, we are so shortsighted that there are things that we do not see. Like the peo ple in Noah’s time, we see only the things of this life, things close up against us, the little things we have made for to morrow, and we disregard the things that really matter. With God, believing is see ing. “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” J ^ r-H . E arnshaw S mith .
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■His wisdom ever waketh, •His sight is never dim; He knows the way He taketh, And I will walk with Him. HUSH L. W aring .
AUGUST 24 “It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful" (1 Cor. 4:2). Some one has defined the good servant as one who is “faithful in little things, mindful of great things, and obedient in all things.” Among the ruins of Pom peii there was found the body of a Ro man sentry at the gate of the city where he had been stationed by his captain. His hands were still grasping his weapon. There, while the heavens threatened and the earth shook and the floods of ashes and cinders overwhelmed him, he had stood fast in the evil day; and there, after a thousand years, he was found. What an illustration of unswerving loyalty! Would that all Christians were as loyal to their great Commander and as faithful in the discharge of the responsibilities He im poses upon themS-F. J. H orsefield . AUGUST 25 “Let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1). We never get God’s best until we come to the desperation point, until, in Wesley’s phrase, we become “confident in self-.de- spair” . . . Are you weary of a cold heart toward Christ, and toward His sac rifice, and toward His Holy Spirit? Has your religion done for you all that you once expected it to dp? Has your life opened up to the pattern that was set be fore your astonished gaze when first you trusted Jesus? Or have you become so pedestrial in the Christian life that you have ceased to think of running any more? . . . Let Christ put His joy and glowing love in your heart, to be shed abroad by the Holy Spirit, and then dare to venture on the God of the extraordi nary.-—W. Y. F ullerton . AUGUST 26 “Chastening . . . yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" (Heb. 12:11). Our Christianity is stillborn if it is not practical, if it does not profoundly and continually influence life and conduct. For Christianity is a life rather than a mere profession—a life to be lived daily in Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost. But if it is to really yield “the peaceable fruit of righteousness,” there is a certain definite reaction of the soul which must be realized and consciously practiced . . . Though salvation depends entirely on Christ and His finished work, our enjoy ment of that salvation depends largely on
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