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did not come by hearsay but by blessed experience: “One thing I KNOW; whereas I was blind, now I see.” There could be no mistake about it; no gainsaying it successfully as far as he was concerned: he had the indisputable evidence of his senses for the fact. That evidence we all may have. The Miracle Worker is still abroad, and every blind eye may be opened. When the work has been accomplished in our case we shall surely know it and, knowing it, let us fling the knowledge at the world and the Devil as they seek to ensnare us in spiritual difficulties— “I cannot answer you as to many of these things, but one thing I know; whereas I was blind, now I see: what do you make of that?” They will find it a hard nut to crack., THE Bible is a storehouse full of “great and precious prom ises;” they blaze like the radiant hosts of heaven in the world’s midnight sky; they are countless almost as the sands of the sea There is scarcely a circumstance of life (if indeed there be one), scarcely a need for mind or for body, for soul or for circum stance, for time or for eternity, which has not its appropriate and all-sufficient promise. We but dimly realize the wealth of blessing which has been laid up for us by God; we too often live like beggars who are ignorant that they have a bank balance ample for their every necessity. Even when we catch a glimpse of the golden store, we hesitate to help ourselves to its abun dance: we dare not lay hold of the jewels; we doubt whether the affluence is really intended for us. Let us strive, with simpler faith, to take our Father at His word; let us seek to live more opulent lives in the sight of men. There is nothing snurious, nothing deceptive, about these promises; they are all “yea” and they are all “amen.” We must not, however, forget that they are so in Him—i.e. in Christ Jesus; out of Him there is but one promise which we can claim, namely, the forgiveness of our sins We cannot have our Lord’s wealth apart from our Lord Him self; we are joint heirs of God with Him; without Him we are paupers indeed. PRECIOUS words 1 Words that deserve to be written in letters of gold over earth’s every portal of sorrow and of pain. All tears henceforth are sanctified since He, the God Incarnate, wept. The worst bitterness has been eradicated from weeping for those who rightly read the record of the Saviour’s tears. For they are at once the evidence and the assurance of the most tender and most powerful sympathy: tender because He was human; powerful because He was Divine; assured because He changeth not, but is “the same, yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.” From this time forth we can go to Him with the burden of our griefs, with no uncertainty as to our reception; we know that He Will be touched to the quick, as with a sense of personal pain, at the recital of our woes. Nor can we doubt His ability to soothe as well as to sympathize, His willingness to save as well as to weep. Since Jesus wept, all tears have lost their shame; no man need blush to shed them since the priceless shower fell from the eyes of Him who was Manhood’s perfection. To be Christ- like is to weep, not so much for our own sorrows as over the griefs of others—our tears, so they be real, shall drop as healing balm into the riven heart. A pril 25. “All the promises of God.”—2 Cor. 1:20. A pril 26. "Jesus wept.”—John 11:35.
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