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our Saviour, “Lord of all” ? This of necessity will mean the command—enabling of, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” The yoke of Christ does not irritate; does not chafe, for He himself declared, “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matt. 11: 29-30). And the yoke of Christ is not a something we have to bear apart from Him. He bears its weight, and as we keep step with Him, listening to, and heeding His voice through His written Word, He makes possible a “walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called” (Eph. 4:1). As for exalted earthly sphere, much more' for heavenly sphere, we need specific training and discipline. And what more fitting time for this than youth affords? Easier far this preparation in life’s spring than postponed for its summer, autumn, or its winter. And how great the loss in time and in eternity when Christ is given a part or a remnant of a life that should have been wholly His from its beginning! If you, reader, have not yet done so, will you now pause and say, “I take Christ to be my /Saviour, and give myself to Him to live my life for Him” ? The Wise Man had in mind some lawless youth who had thrown off the restraints of home and friends, and had become a law to himself when he said as a warning and a reminder: “Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove, sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh” (Eccles. 11: 9, 10). Sad indeed it is when young life drifts on the tide of desire, impulse; becomes a creature of time, of sense, of appetite. Unless; arrested in such a, course there can be nothing but shipwreck, and eternal loss. May you not be heedless of the danger signals displayed throughout the Word of God, and the warnings seen in disabled and disk; honored lives! And so we praj^for you, our dear young friends, that yours may be God’s-best. “Yea, all I need in Thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come.” A life of ease and pleasure is good for neither soul nor body. The higher types of men and women are not to be found amongst the self-indulgent. In her splendid talks to young people “Stella” remarks: “The easy things of life are not the things that develop our character; it takes the hard things to do that.” But would it be to our highest interests if we could cast off our yoke,—the yoke that restricts action, and the gratification of desire? Might it not be that license would have full play, or we fling away some of life’s best assets ? A yoke has often meant to its possessor enrichment and ennoblement of character. How much more so is this the case when the yoke is the yoke of Christ, whose yoke is “easy,” His burden “light,” and means heart-ease, con tentment, in the midst of life’s distractions and unrest: “And ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Of this burden J. W. Kemp thus testifies, “I can do what I like, because I only like what God likes.” . And burdens we have none as we bear His yoke. And now, reader, with you, with me, may it be that “when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe . . . our God would count [us each] worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God, and the Lord Tesus Christ” (2 Thess. 1: 10 - 12 ).
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The Springtim e of Life B y G ertrude C ockerell
HE Wise Man said : “It is good for a man that hé bear the yoke, in his’ youth.” Lam. 3:27,. A yoke does not sound attractive to you, my dear young friend, does it? With'all your fresh .young powers attuned to spring, you would fain cast-off the:’restraints of home, of school, of work, and be free as the birds and lambs. Is this not so? And this you could do to a large extent were yours a mere animal existence. You could then live in the spirit of “Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” But you are not a creature of time, but of a never-ending- eternity. Our time here, at longest, is nothing, 'compared with eternity. Relatively, it is not even as one drop in a bucket of water. Eternity is without limit, without boundary: But how much hinges upon our use or misuse of ¿time as regards eternity ! Here we settle our destiny. Where are you. going to spend your eternity? Will it be in the abode of blissj4-heaven ? If not then it must be in the abode of woe,—hell. Youth is the time for decisions of all kinds,—our call ing, our friendships, and for us all there is a constant call for choice between good and evil. The day is yours as young. May you make good and wise decisions in its early hours, and not leave these for its fast-fleeting,:.'closing hours! How Jesus our Lord loved young life when on earth ! Hear Him say : “Suffer the little children to come unto,Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” And many a little one can say, “I know Jesus died for me. Jesus is my Saviour.”; ' For some who read these lines youth’s day is"closing, and you are not saved. Just pause amid your work, your pleasures, your pursuits and listen to the voice of Him who loves you best : “My son, give Me thine heart.” There is no time like the present. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” (Eccles. 12 :1). What an honor that the Lord of glory should condescend to ask of us our hearts ! Should we not gladly answer “Take my heart ; it is Thine own ; it Sshall be Thy royal throne” ? What we commit to Him, He keeps. And with the apostle we may say : “I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day” (2 Tim. 1 :l-2). . The more we read about, and think about the cost of our redemption, the' more we are constrained to live unto Him who died for us, our Substitute on Calvary,, who there paid for us sin’s penalty, and now our risen Lord, to save us from sin’s power. “What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Saviour Shall we not crown Him,
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