1035 have the loving touch, to gaze into each other’s eyes— this is joy indeed, A young girl beeame anxious about her soul, and did not clearly see the way of salvation. She went to a meet ing where the Gospel of the grace of God was simply told, and sitting in the room, she was brightly converted, and a new joy filled her heart. The gentle man who addressed the meeting had some conversation with her at the close, and amid other questions asked her, “Where is your heart now?” “ Heart,” she replied, “ I have not got a heart; when you were speaking in the meeting the Lord Jesus came and stole my heart away!” Oh, that we may know what it is to have our heart stolen away. Just think of this, how He longs for us to be beside Him. “ I will receive you unto Myself” '(John 14.3). Not merely Heaven, not merely the glory or the golden street; but to Himself, to His heart of love, for “ He loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Gal. 2:20), and that personal, individual love, that warm affection, will never diminish throughout all the coming ages. With such love in our hearts we will long for His appearing, and watch for the first streak of the dawn in this dark night, and listen for the gathering shout when, joy of joys, we will be with Him, and see Him, and be like Him throughout a long, blessed eter nity.— Robert Thompson. ~ ''' 1 DiyiNE CHASTENING There are three distinct attitudes of heart in reference to divine chastening, namely, subjection, acquiescence, and rejoicing. When the will is broken, there is subjection. When the under standing is enlightened as to the, object of thp' chastening, there is calm acqui escence. And when the affections are engaged with the .Father’s ¿heart, there is rejoicing.— C. H. M.
THE K I N G ’ S BUSINESS more our prayers have been answered, the more we should be stirred up with new determination to ask yet greater things. We should be encouraged to come again and again in order that He may incline His ear to us. Is this, my beloved friends, the case with us? Are those two points found in us, and can we say with the Psalmist: “ I love Jehovah, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications” ? And do our hearts say “ because He hath in clined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live?” Ver ily it should be so with us if we are be lievers. LONGING FOB HIM Why do not some long for the Lord’s return? The answer is simple and evi dent, and also so sad. He is not loved. Loving hearts' must be near each other, or joyously waiting to be so; separation ever brings sadness. The writer was once at a railway sta tion, and had taken a seat in the train when a woman and her daughter came up. As the girl entered and sat down, both the mother and daughter burst into tears. The young girl was leaving home for her first place, and sad it was to see the parting, two loving hearts about to separate for a time. And this must be so. If we accept our Lord’s wondrous, unchangeable, and causeless love to us, this will beget in us kindred love to Him, for “ we love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). The result will be we will long to see Him, and be with Him. A fisherman’s wife in the North Country, is said to say in a song, when looking out from an upper room for the return of her husband: “ His very foot has music in’t, When he comes up the stair.” • And so it ever is. Woe, woe for lov ing hearts to separate; but to meet, to
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