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rock. Let us beware lest it be so- with us. Let-us pray that God would fence the field of our heart and water it with the gracious rain of the Holy Ghost, that it may be kept soft and fertile, ready to receive and fructify the Word. Be it noted that the passengers who beat down the ground were not (at least not most of them) unlawful pedestrians. It is not necessarily sins which harden the human heart. Things that are right in themselves are out of place if they are allowed to intrude into the innermost recesses of the soul. A business man must often have his mind full of business, but it should not be allowed to get into his heart. It is far easier to let the field be hardened than to soften it again: let us commit it to our Keeper that it may be safe. MOSES and Elias had disappeared and the disciples were alone with Christ. Have we learned the lesson of the Trans figuration Mount? Have we realized that henceforth our salva tion is not in any sense dependent upon the deeds of the Law, and that our only true Teacher is the Rabbi of Nazareth? “Jesus only” : “Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to Thy cross I cling.” “Jesus only;” no reliance upon self righteousness or self suf ficiency : “I ’m a poor sinner, and nothing at all; But Jesus Christ is all in all.” With not a rag to cover my vileness; with no power of myself to help myself; with not a grain of merit to plead at the judg ment seat of God; “My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness,” and upon nothing else. “Jesus only” : not merely my.only Sav iour, but my only Teacher: for though great may be “the com pany of the preachers;’? yet He must give the word, or their mes sages will be vain: and though I have the Sacred Book, yet He must open my mind if I am to behold wondrous things out of His law. How happy are they who learn to abandon all beside, and to rely upon “Jesus ONLY.” M ay 31. Is/“A bruised reed . . . . and smoking flax."if-Matt. 12:20. COULD anything be more weak or more worthless than a bruised reed or a smoking wick? To fling the former away, to smother the latter that we may rid ourselves of its foul odor, is our instinctive impulse. They are useless things—so we think —the broken reed will make no music, the smoking wick will give no light. Christ thinks otherwise. He sees the possibility of mending the reed, of rekindling the flax; and while there is such a possibility (however slight) He will never cease to attempt its realization. There is no soul upon earth -so weak but the Master is able to use it in His service; there is no life so foul but He can cause it to glow with the glory of His grace. The only necessity is that He should be allowed to have His way with us. We need never fear to come to Jesus of Nazareth, however impotent, or however evil we may be, if we but come in peni tence and faith. “The smoking flax He will not quench, But raise it to a flame; The bruised reed He will not break, Nor scorn the meanest name.” But if He is so patient and hopeful with us, how tenderly we should deal with our frail and erring fellow men! Like Him, we should look, not for their flaws, but for their possibilities. M ay 30. “Jesus only." — Matt. 17:8.
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The Passing of “The Word”
A R om ance of C ollege Life By H elen H enshaw
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