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extended plains to be occupied. A goal is set before us, and with the single-mind edness, passion, and intensity of the run ner, we are to press on toward that goal. The swiftest and most unwearied among us have not yet attained. Contentment with ways of God toward us, dissatisfac tion with our attainments in the heavenly way—-this is the true ideal of the Chris tian life. — Watchman-Examiner. —o— January 30— “A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench” { Isa. 42:3). The shepherd in olden times played up on these reeds. They were very easily bruised; but when they were bruised, they were never mended. The shepherd could so easily make another one. The Bible says it is not. so with our Shepherd. When the music has gone out of a man’s soul, God does not snap him in twain and throw him away. He mends and restores. — Selected. —o— January 31-— “I f ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God” (Col. 3:1). Through Jesus’ resurrection our own is assured. In Christ we see through death. Death becomes transparent. We gaze upon the other side. Death is not a terminus; it is a thoroughfare. Life does not finish in endless night; it goes forward to bright morning and endless day. What manner of man ought I then to be? I must do my duty daily, as a child of the Eternal. My purposes must be such that I can carry them through the narrow straits of death into the endless life beyond. “If ye then be risen with Christ,” shape your lives for the beyond. ■— J. H. Jowett. — o — - February 1* —“The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him” (Psa. 25:14). They that fear the Lord, in the honor able and Scriptural sense, are they who are powerfully affected by the promise here given. To the great majority of men —alas 1 to many who assume the name of Christian—the prom ise here recorded possesses no charm. Their spirits are in no way stirred within them by the prospect of being made the confidants of God. They shall not be His confidants. This singularly exalted condition is, for them to whom is the promise, like a day-star in the heart, like a cynosure, drawing them patiently, perseverjngly, earnestly on in the pathway of obedience, faith, and love. Abraham was the friend of God, and God approved Himself a friend in deed; He would not hide from him the thing that was hidden from all the rest of the world. Moses, too, was the friend of God, and brought into surprising in timacy; the secret of the Lord was with him. “Henceforth,” said Christ to the apostles, “I call you not servants, but friends: for all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.” And, doubtless, there are those now upon the earth who recline, as it were, upon the bosom of their Lord, and drink in His most secret communica tions, unintelligible to others. . —George Bowen.
light! Do we not fondle it with a special gush of affection? However much we loved the little thing before, we think we love it more than ever! When the Fa ther’s little children come to Him in the dark, and simply believe His assurance that He is there, although they cannot see, will He be less loving, less kind and tender ? “I cannot hear Thy voce, Lord, But Thou dost hear my cry; I cling to Thine assurance That Thou art ever night. I know that Thou art faithful; I trust, but cannot see That it is still the right way By which Thou leadest me.” January 28— “The Father of . mercies, and the God of all comfort” (2 Cor. 1 :3). Let us carry our cares to God and bring away the comfort. Is there a tired, har assed, disappointed soul reading these lines? Turn to the God of all comfort. Just let Him do His blessed work. Just let' the sense of His presence steal into your soul—a calm, still, mellowed light of unutterable peace. Listen- for His voice; He can breathe words of comfort such as no mother ever spoke. Be on the lookout for some unexpected mercy. The God who gave Christ for your sins, who allowed His own and only Son to suffer in your stead, is He who can give you all the comfort you need just at this pres ent moment. Bring every cause of dis comfort and trial to Him. “The little sharp vexations, And the briars that catch and fret— Why not take them to the Helper Who has never failed us yet? “Tell Him about the heartache, And tell Him the longing, too; Tell Him the baffled purpose, When we scarce know what to do. —Frances Ridley Havergal. —o— ; —o— January 29—■"/ have learned, in what soever state I am, therewith to be content” (Phil. 4:11). “I press toward the mark for the prise of the high calling of God in Christ Je sus” (Phil. 3 :14). The same apostle who said, “I have learned t o . be contented,” said also, “I press toward the goal.” To be content with the divine ordering of our lives, receiving that which comes to us with grateful and loving trust, is essential to that serenity of soul, without which, whatever its outward conditions, life is a dismal failure* We cannot be at our best when discontent rules the spirit. If we are willing to have God choose our paths, we need no longer be a prey to wearing anxiety, gloomy for- boding, and heart-sickening dread. To be content is to have the peace of God that passeth all understanding. On the other hand, to be satisfied with our attainments in the spiritual life is dishonoring to God. In the spiritual life there are heights to be scaled, depths to be sounded, and broad “Then leaving all our weakness. With the One divinely strong, Forget that we bore the burden, And carry away the song.” —Russell Elliott.
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