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understand; but heaven without a temple —is it not nature without a sun? Nay, verily, rather is it nature without a cloud. What the seer means to describe is not a heaven where there shall be no religion, but a heaven where there shall be nothing but religion, where religion shall be all in all. . . . God’s temple is a universal tem ple. Its height is the'summit o f heaven, its depth is the base of sacrifice, its length is the measure of eternity, its breadth is the vastness of every finite need, its glory is the glory, o f the Lamb. — G eorge M ath eson . MARCH 10 “Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin” (Rom . 6:11). Just as really as we are naturally united by birth to the first Adam, so now, be lieving in Jesus, we become partakers of His life. This is realized in our own prac tical experience by that mental act of faith, which the apostle describes as “reckon ing.” To reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive for God, to yield up ourselves to Him as those who are alive from the dead, would be the grossest fanaticism, were there no glorious fact behind the reck oning. But because there is such a fact, not to reckon upon it is the grossest folly and disobedience. It is to frustrate the grace of God, and make the cross o f Christ of none effect. This, then, is the divine order; first the fact, then the faith, then the corresponding action and behavior. Well says a quaint old writer, “ Oh, thou vain man! show me thy faith by thy joy ; if thou livest dumpishly and yet sayest thou livest by faith, I will as soon believe thee as him that shall say that he hath the philosopher’s stone, and lives like a beg gar. If it were ever well with thy faith, could it ever be amiss with thee?” ’ . Arise, sad heart: if thou dost not with stand, Christ’s resurrection thine may be: Do not by hanging down break from the Hand Which, as it riseth, raiseth thee. ‘ Arise! Arise! —J. G regory M an tle .. MARCH 11 “ Thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways" (Lk. 1 :76). It is said of a famous preacher that he always preached “as a dying man to dying men.” It is such preaching that is always effective. A minister visiting a penitentiary on Saturday was invited by the Chris tian warden to speak to the inmates the next day. That evening the minister felt impressed to go to the penitentiary and learn the details regarding the service. Noting two chairs draped in black in the main assembly room, he inquired as to the reason. Said the warden, “These two chairs are draped for death. Your sermon will be the last these men will ever hear.” You can realize that Browning and Emer son figured very little in the sermon that was delivered on that occasion. There are chairs in most audiences draped for death. — S u n day S chool T im e s . MARCH 12 “ The Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psa. 84:11). The Lord who says that He will give grace now tells you that He will glory.
work as if there were nothing beyond them, you grow specious, narrow, petty. If you think about yourself and your cul ture or your credit in your work, you grow either proud or moody. If you think about your Father who gave you your work, you grow faithful,! serene, happy, and noble; and, what is best o f all, you come through Him into true sympathy with all other workers who are aware of Him, however different their work may be from yours. Only, in order to attain all this, you must know through all your life that God is your Father, and that He has indeed given you what you are doing. If a man or a woman is able to get and to keep that knowledge, there is no drudgery so mean and crushing that it cannot, be lifted and made buoyant. “ Lord, give me light to do Thy w ork ; For only, Lord, from Thee Can come the light by which these eyes The way o f work can see.” P h illips B rooks , MARCH 7 “Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. S: IS, 16, R. V .). It is not difficult to meet the demands of the world. Its code of morality is mainly negative; all it requires o f us is that we be respectable. But he who keeps a strict watch upon his own spirit, and who judges his own outer and inner life conscientiously and intelligently, must make great de mands upon himself. He who does so will not need to care very much what others think of him. True worth will shine out sooner or later. There are few feelings more satisfying than amidst public depreciation and ob loquy to fall back on one’s own sense o f pure motives and right conduct. ^ R H S ELECTED. MARCH 8 “Men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Lk. 18:1). Here is a word forms, a profound word, which gives a clear insight into things, and reveals a secret, a secret that is worth more than piles of g o ld : pray and not faint, pray always and faint never; pray not and you will surely faint. Sufferer on your bed of pain, pray^ and you will not faint; Chris tian, tried and persecuted by unsympathetic relatives, pray, and you will n o t , faint; child of God, beset by difficulties at work, in business, in the world, pray, and you will not faint; young believer, learning lessons o f your own frailty and the strength of sin, pray, and you will not faint. Cease to pray, and you will faint, for the battles o f life are too fierce for him who buckles on his armor and forgets God. Prayer brings God in, and God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent; He cares and hears and answers, and this is why men ought always to pray and not to faint.— S cripture T r u th . MARCH 9 “And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple o f it” (Rev. 21:22). No temple therein; are these words a promise or a threat? Heaven without a temple seems a strange boon. Heaven with out pain, heaven without death, heaven without sorrow or sighing—all this I can
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