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Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:57 KEEP close to Christ, if conflict sore betide; Stand fast, remembering He is at your side To give you strength In battle, and the victor's palm at length. German, tr. by FRANCES E.COX IF we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we should feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For He who giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may get th

W hoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in Him. 2 John 5 I have called you friends. JOHN 15:15 THE hands that tend the sick tend Christ; the will­ing feet that go on errands of love, work for Christ; the words of comfort to the sorrowful, and of sym­pathy to the mourner, are spoken in the name of Christ--Christ comforts the world through His friends. How much have you done for Him? What sort of a friend have you been to

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:9 GIVE me a new, a perfect heart, From doubt, and fear, and sorrow free; The mind which was in Christ impart, And let my spirit cleave to Thee. CHARLES WESLEY SINCE I attained to a clear consciousness, by in­ward experience, that there is no way of satisfying the needs of the soul, or tranquillizing the heart's longings, but by the inner life in Christ, I am aware of

Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanks­giving, and the voice of melody. ISAIAH 51:3 If thou art living a righteous and a useful life, doing thy duty orderly and cheerfully where God has put thee, then thou art making sweeter melody in the ears of the Lord Jesus Christ, than if thou hadst the throat of a nightingale; for then thou in thy humble place art copying the everlasting harmony and melody which is in heaven. CHARLES KINGSLEY IN proportion as the perfect obedie

We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work. 2 THESSALONIANS 3:12 THERE is an order in our daily life, Like that the holy angels constant keep; And though its outward show seems but a strife, There dwells within a peace like oceans deep. JONES VERY THE enemy of that grand central habit of interior patience is haste: haste of thought, haste of judgment, haste of manner, haste of speech. Even natural powers of every kind become true strength, w

That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. DEUTERONOMY 14:29 FIRM against every doubt of Thee For all my future way,-- To walk in heaven's eternal light Throughout the changing day. Ah! such a day as Thou shalt own When suns have ceased to shine! A day of burdens borne by Thee, And work that all was Thine. ANNA L. WARING LET us give ourselves to God without any reserve, and let us fear nothing. He will love us, and we shall love Him.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith. 1 THESSALONIANS 3:7 JUST as God leads I am content: I rest me calmly in His hands; That which He has decreed and sent-- That which His will for me commands-- I would that He should all fulfil; That I should do His gracious will In living or in dying. LAMPERTUS GEDICKE DIVINE Providence means the arrangement of all our life, not only of its bright side, but also of its dark. It ma

Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? ACTS 10:6 EVERY task, however simple, sets the soul that does it free; Every deed of love and mercy, done to man is done to Me. HENRY VAN DYKE FOR each one of us, whether on a bed of pain, in feebleness and uncertainty of purpose such as comes with ill-health or overstrained nerves, or whatever else may be our immediate condition, nothing is more urgent, nothing more behooves us than to ask, "What wouldst Thou have me to do?" For, whatever

The Lord will lighten my darkness. 2 SAMUEL 22:29 Upon whom doth not His light arise? JOB 25:3 HOPE, then, though woes be doubled, Hope, and be undismayed; Let not thy heart be troubled, Nor let it be afraid. This prison where thou art, Thy God will break it soon, And flood with light thy heart In His own blessed noon. PAUL GERHARDT A CHRISTIAN may for many days together see neither sun nor star, neither light in God's coun­tenance, nor light in his own heart, though even at

He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with Him. DANIEL 2:22 TAKE it on trust a little while; Soon shalt thou read the mystery right In the full sunshine of His smile. JOHN KEBLE GOD is too wise not to know all about us, and what is really best for us to be, and to have. And He is too good, not to desire our highest good; and too power­ful, desiring, not to effect it. If, then, what He has appointed for us does not seem to us the best, or even to be good,

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. DEUTERONOMY 5:32 NO duty, however hard and perilous, should be feared one-half so much as failure in the duty. People sometimes shrink from responsibility, saying they dare not accept it because it is so great. But in shrinking from duty they are really encountering a far more serious condition than that which they evade. It is a great deal easie

Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 JOHN 5:4 WHAT is victory over the world? It is to cut off as far as we may, every hold which everything out of God has over us; to study wherein we are weak, and there seek in His strength to be made strong. Be your temptation the love of pleasure, it is to forego it; if of food, to restrain it; it of praise, to put forward others rather than yourself; if of be

The will of the Lord be done. ACTS 21:14 BUT if in parallel to Thine My will doth meekly run, All things in heaven and earth are mine, My will is crossed by none; Thou art in me, And I in Thee,-- Thy will--and mine--are done! W. M. L. JAY SUFFERINGS arising from anxiety, in which the soul adds, to the cross imposed by the hand of God, an agitated resistance, and a sort of unwillingness to suffer,--such troubles arise only because we live to ourselves. A cross wholly inflicted

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Thy commandments are my delights. PSALMS 119:143 WHEN black despair beats down my wings, And heavenly visions fade away-- Lord, let me bend to common things, The tasks of every day; As, when th' aurora is denied, And blinding blizzards round him beat, The Samoyed bends, and takes for guide The moss beneath his feet. WILLIAM CANTON WHATEVER bad times may come, or whatever perplexity, there is almost always close at hand, wait­ing

I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. JOHN 17:15 IN the hour of trial, Jesus, plead for me; Lest by base denial I depart from Thee. JAMES MONTGOMERY OUR Lord would have His people to be in the world, and yet to be separate from it. He would have them be separated, not by isolation from it, but by living loyally under Him as their King, where His claims are denied and His rule is rejected; by coura­geously l

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am appre­hended of Jesus Christ. PHILIPPIANS 3:12 LET no man think that sudden in a minute All is accomplished and the work is done;-- Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it, Scarce were it ended in thy setting sun. FREDERIC W. H. MYERS NOTHING so purifies the thoughts, heightens the acts, shuts out self, admits God, as, in all t

Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say, Re­joice. PHILIPPIANS 4:4 REJOICE in hope and fear; Rejoice in life and death; Rejoice when threatening storms are near, And comfort languisheth: When should not they rejoice Whom Christ His brethren calls,-- Who hear and know His guiding voice When on their hearts it falls? JOHN MOULTRIE TO "give thanks to Him for all things," is, indeed, a very difficult duty; for it includes giving thanks for trials of all kinds; for suffering a

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. PHILIPPIANS 4:11 FORGIVE us, Lord, our little faith; And help us all, from morn till e'en, Still to believe that lot the best Which is,--not that which might have been. GEORGE ZABRISKIE GRAY THOU givest within and without precisely what the soul needs for its advancement in a life of faith and self-renunciation. I have then only to receive this bread, and to accept, in the spirit of self-sacrifice, whatever Thou

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord. ZEPHANIAH 3:8 That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. EPHESIANS 3:19 WHAT is our work when God a blessing would impart? To bring the empty vessel of a needy heart. RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH IN praying, we are often occupied with ourselves, with our own needs, and our own efforts in the pre­sentation of them. In waiting upon God, the first thought is of the God upon whom we wait. God longs to reveal Himself, to fill us with

Continuing steadfastly in prayer. ROMANS 12:12 PRAYER is a preparation for danger, it is the armor for battle. Go not into the dangerous world without it. You kneel down at night to pray and drowsiness weighs down your eyelids. A hard day's work is a kind of excuse, and you shorten your prayer, and resign yourself softly to repose. The morning breaks, and it may be you rise late, and so your early devotions are not done, or done with irregular haste. It is no marvel if that d

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven. MATTHEW 5:19 THE great sterling duties, the exact truth of word, the resolute refusal to countenance wrong, the com­mand of temper, the mastery of indolence, the un­stained purity,--these, and such as these, form the character, and fashion our souls into instruments in God's hands for high and heavenly purposes in His Providence. But

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. GALATIANS 6:10 She hath done what she could. MARK 14:8 VERY consoling words, if we can be sure they apply to us. Very pungent condemnation if they apply not, and we suffer opportunities to go by. The rule de­mands no impossibilities; but it does demand that every sphere, however humble, shall be filled with divine endeavors. You have not done what you could if you have not made it the problem of every day; how man

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. PSALMS 55:22 To Thee I bring my care, The care I cannot flee; Thou wilt not only share, But bear it all for me. O loving Saviour, now to Thee I bring the load that wearies me. FRANCES R. HAVERGAL CAST thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee"--burden and all. "Thee" is the greatest burden that thou hast! All other burdens are but slight, but this is a crushing

Love never faileth. 1 CORINTHIANS 8:8 Your heart shall live for ever . PSALMS 22:26 DEATH has no bidding to divide The souls that dwell in Thee; Yes, all who in the Lord abide Are of one family. THOMAS H. GILL WILL not our own lamented and beloved be there, in the array of happy spirits? Will they not hail our coming with delight? Do they not remember us now, even in the sight of God? For to see His face does not extinguish but perfect all holy loves. God's love gathers up an