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M AY 13 T he L ove that C overeth “Be kindly affectioned one to another” (Rom. 12:16). When we sit beside a man’s deathbed, we have no harsh judgments to pronounce. Beauties appear where we have never ob served them before, and imperfections fade out in the softening, mellowing glow that streams from the gates o f the eternal world. How kindly we feel toward him in that hour! Can we not learn to look at men always as we shall at the close o f the day? Then it will be easy to feel and to exhibit toward all that love that never fail- eth, that thinketh no evil, that hopeth all things.— J. R. M iller . ’Tis a little thing to say, “You are kind” ; “ I love you, my dear, each night” ; But it sends a thrill through your heart, I find, For love is tender, love is blind, As we climb life’s rugged height. This joy Christ discouraged—the joy of service. W e need not wonder at the ex uberant joy o f the disciples. To see men possessed by evil spirits, and held under their foul and desecrating dominion, brought back to self-control and sweet sanity by a word, might well elate men’s hearts. You have known some measures o f that joy. A little child has had his young heart set on Jesus in some solemn hour of your appeal. A face blotted by the tears o f shame has been lightened because you have brought the comfort and the strength of some message o f God. A drunkard has been redeemed from his vice, and walks in a steadfast sobriety through the wrestling o f your prayer and the pa tience o f your self-denying endeavor. Then your heart has leapt up within you. A flood o f joy has pulsed through you, and you are quick with your word o f ecstasy, “ Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.” That may seem a joy to be unstintedly indulged. Christ looks on it with an anxious heart. He knows how closely it is beset by peril. He sees how prone jubilant hearts are to pride and vanity and conceit. As the disciples looked up, they saw His troubled face and heard the w ords: “ Notwithstanding in this re joice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” —W. M. C low . Family Life in America In 1920, there was a population of 105,- 710,620 in the United States, and the num ber o f families was 24,351,676. In 1930, the population had increased by more than 17,000,000 and numbered 122,775,046, and the families, 29,980,146. There was, how ever, in the last census, a decrease in the average number o f persons in each family. In 1920, the families averaged 4.3 persons; in 1930, the average was 4.1. I f the same ratio o f decrease continues, the average family in 1940 will be 3.9. Statisticians see in these figures that the great expan sion era is practically ended in America. —A lliance W eekly . —C hristina R osette M AY 14 W hen R ejoicing is D angerous “Notwithstanding in this, rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you” (Lk. 10:20).
The church’s pilgrimage is nearly done. Yet she is not less a pilgrim as its end draws nigh. Nay, more so. The last stage o f the journey is the dreariest for her. Her path lies through the thickest darkness that the world has yet felt. It seems as if it were only by the fitful blaze o f conflag rations that we can now shape our way. It is the sound o f falling kingdoms that is guiding us onward. It is the fragments o f broken thrones lying across our path that assures us that our route is the true one, and that its end is near—that end, the morning with its songs ; and in that morn ing, a kingdom ; and in that kingdom, glory; and in that glory, the everlasting rest, the sabbath of eternity. —H oratius B onar . “And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top o f the mount; and Moses went up” (Ex. 19:20). Make it your rule o f life, your definite purpose, that the first act o f awakened consciousness every morning shall be to tell Him something; to say something to Him about Himself, and about yourself, and about the day as it begins. And re member all the while that you are speak ing to a living Presence, an infinitely wise Friend.—H. C. G. M oule . Every genuine believer in God has his interview with God in the mountain, his periods o f solitude, his seasons of with drawal from strife and noise and unholy revelry; and coming back from the moun tain of contemplation, he touches life with a steadier hand, and does his duty with a more complete obedience and more radiant cheerfulness.— J oseph P arker . This passage is a striking object lesson o f the Holy Ghost in His all-sufficiency for the supplying o f every need. First, we have, in the case o f this poor widow, an example o f great need. Her situation was one o f debt, danger, distress, and o f com plete helplessness. God loves hard places, and faith is usually born o f danger and ex tremity. Was she entirely without re sources? “ Tell me, what hast thou in the house?” And she answered, “ Thy servant hath nothing save a pot o f oil.” But that little pot o f oil represented the power of the Holy Ghost, the infinite attribute o f God Himself. The Holy Spirit is given to us to be used for every sort o f need, and yet, with all the power o f heaven at our call, many of us are going about in starva tion, simply because we do not know our treasure. But she must get vessels, and empty vessels, to hold the supply which is about to be revealed. And so our greatest need is to make room for God. She showed her faith by beginning to pour out the con tents o f the little pot into the larger ves sel. So faith must go forward and act out its confidence . . . It was when the water at Cana was poured out that it became wine. It was when the man stretched out his hand that it was healed. “ How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”—A. B. S impson . M AY 11 M oments on the M ount M AY 12 F aith T aps D ivine R esources “ What hast thou in the house? . . . not anything . . . save a pot o f oil” (2 Ki. 4 :2 ).
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