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As bond-servants [margin] of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. EPHESIANS 6:6 LORD Jesus, turn us from the noise Of endless strivings and empty joys, To find forever Thy one true peace, Rest from sorrow, from sin release! HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL CAN He not enable you to do that will from your heart, in your surroundings? Are you sorely tried by those surroundings? Are they, in themselves, humil­iating to you, or exasperating to you? Are they full of acute heart-pang

Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. JOB 13:15 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ISAIAH 48:10 I WILL not let Thee go; Thou Help in time of need! Heap ill on ill, I trust Thee still, E'en when it seems that Thou wouldst slay indeed! Do as Thou wilt with me, I yet will cling to Thee; Hide Thou Thy face, yet, Help in time of need, I will not let Thee go. WOLFGANG C. DESSLER YOUR afflictions are not eternal,

Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. COLOSSIANS 1:12 NOT their own, ah! not from earth was flowing That high strain to which their souls were tuned; Year by year we saw them inly growing Liker Him with whom their hearts communed. Then to Him they passed; but still unbroken, Age to age, lasts on that goodly line, Whose pure lives are, more than all words spoken, Earth's best witness to the life divine

That He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth. EPHESIANS 1:10 FOR all the saints who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesu, be for ever blessed. Alleluia! Oh, blest communion! fellowship divine! We feebly struggle, they in glory shine; Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. Alleluia! WILLIAM W. HOW IN the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship o

Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee. DEUTERONOMY 8:2 NOT mindless of the growing years Of care and loss and pain, My eyes are wet with thankful tears For blessings that remain. J. G. WHITTIER THE years of available and happy life which have been already enjoyed ought to be the cause of thank­fulness, even if "the days of darkness" were many. "The sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering hap­pier things," says Tennyson. Surely, in the sphere of Faith

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. ISAIAH 30:15 BE Still, MY soul--for just as thou art still, Can God reveal Himself to thee; until Through thee His love, and light, and life can freely flow. In stillness God can work through thee and reach The souls around thee. He then through thee can teach His lessons--and His power in weakness show. BESSIE PORTER WE are always wanting to be doing, to be giving, to be planning for the future, to be mapping out all our

I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts. PSALMS 119:45 To be made with Thee one spirit, Is the boon that I lingering ask, To have no bar 'twixt my soul and Thine; My thoughts to echo Thy will divine, Myself Thy servant for any task. LUCY LARCOM THERE is more effort, more steadfastness, involved in a diligent attention to little duties than appears at first sight, and that because of their continual recur­rence. Such heed to little things implies a ceaseless listening

Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord? 1 CHRONICLES 29:5 My blessed task from day to day Is humbly, gladly, to obey. HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL THE only way to restore a weakened will is by exercising itself in details of duty, it may be in small­est acts of obedience, regularly done, "here a little, and there a little," content to grow by slow degrees into the use of lost powers through repeated acts of observance however trivial or unobserved. Fai

Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffer­ing with joyfulness. COLOSSIANS 1:11 REJOICE in Christ always! When earth looks heavenly bright, When joy makes glad the livelong day, And peace shuts in the night. Rejoice, when care and woe The fainting soul oppress, When tears at wakeful midnight flow, And morn brings heaviness. JOHN MOULTRIE A GREAT point is gained when we have learned not to struggle against the circumstances G

I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. ISAIAH 14:3 GOD! Thou art Love! I build my faith on that! I know Thee, Thou hast kept my path and made Light for me in the darkness--tempering sorrow, So that it reached me like a solemn joy: It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love. ROBERT BROWNING IF I believe in God, in a Being who made me, and fa

My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work. JOHN 4:34 THEY who tread the path of labor follow where My feet have trod; They who work without complaining do the holy will of God. HENRY VAN DYKE WHENCE comes it that we have so many com­plaints, each saying that his occupation is a hin­drance to him, while notwithstanding his work is of God, who hindereth no man? Whence comes this in­ward reproof and sense of guilt which torment and disquiet you? Dear

Your life is hid with Christ in God. COLOSSIANS 3:3 Put on therefore a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other; even as the Lord for­gave you so also do ye. COLOSSIANS 3:12-13 (R. V.) IT is not the deed we do, Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with holy care In the heart of the deed so fair. HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL THESE are duties which belong to us alike, what

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 2:14 FIGHT the good fight With all thy might; Christ is thy Strength, and Christ thy Right; Lay hold on life, And it shall be Thy joy and crown eternally. J. B. S. MONSELL LET the first act on waking be to place yourself, your heart, mind, faculties, your whole being, in God's hands. Ask Him to take entire possession of you, to be the Guide of your soul, your Life, your Wisdom, your Strength.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. JOHN 15:16 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I com­mand you. JOHN 15:14 WE have not chosen Thee, But us Thou deign'st to choose,-- Not servants, but Thy friends to be, Whom Thou wilt never lose: For never wilt Thou change Who art all change above: Nor life nor death shall us estrange From Thy most perfect love. GEORGE B. BUBIER WE offer Christ the submission of our hearts, and the obedience of our lives; and He offers us His

Thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee. JEREMIAH 7:27 HIS eyes were bright with intelligence and trained powers of observation; and they were beautiful with kindliness, and with the well-bred habit of giving com­plete attention to other people and their affairs when he talked with them. JULIANA H. EWING There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. Some men listen with an abstracted air, which shows that their

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. PSALMS 130:6 The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. PSALMS 18:28 A SOUL that is patient waits with calm endur­ance for light before acting, and in virtue of this calm and patient endurance suffers no pain or anxiety, because the soul possesses herself and waits for light; and when the mind waits patiently for light, sooner or later it is sure to come.

O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done. MATTHEW 26:42 To do or not to do,--to have, Or not to have I leave to Thee; To be or not to be, I leave,-- Thy only will be done to me: All my requests are lost in one, Father, Thy only will be done! C. WESLEY DEAR Lord, in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable, 'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear. FREDERICK W. FABER OFFER thyself as a sacrifice to God

Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 ONLY be still, and wait His leisure In cheerful hope, with heart content To take whate'er thy Father's pleasure, And all-discerning love hath sent; Nor doubt our inmost wants are known To Him who chose us for His own. GEORG NEUMARK, 1657 OH, how is the face of life altered, as soon as a man has in earnest made his first object to do his Father's

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on ser­pents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. LUKE 10:19 SHED down on me Thy mighty power, To strengthen for each coming hour; And then, through flood, through fire and sword, I'll follow Thee, my Lord, my Lord! JOHANN RAMBACH WHY do we grow so little in grace? It is because we do not use our intellect to meditate upon the forces of the unseen world amidst which we live, or our

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. EPHESIANS 4:31 THE wider vision of the mind; The spirit bright with sun; The temper like a fragrant wind, Chilling and grieving none; The quickened heart to know God's will, And on His errands run. SUSAN COOLIDGE IT is of the very greatest moment to know the occasions of our sin, and the way in which it shows itself. To know the occasions, puts us on our guard; to k

This commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. 1 JOHN 4:21 HE who loves God all else above, His own shall also clasp In circles ampler far of love Than weaker arms can grasp; And farther down through space and time His sympathies descend and climb. SIR AUBREY DE VERE THE true proficiency of the soul consists not so much in deep thinking, or eloquent speaking, or beautiful writing; as in much and warm loving. Now, if you ask me in what way thi

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen Thou me according unto Thy word. PSALMS 119:28 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love. COLOSSIANS 2:2 WHEN I am with Thee as Thou art with me, Life will be self-forgetting power; Love, ever conscious, buoyant, clear, and free Will flame in darkest hour. GEORGE MACDONALD EVERYTHING becomes possible to those who love. The commands of the Lord are no longer grievous, for the soul that loves is gifted by that lo

We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. 1 JOHN 4:16 NOT what I am, O Lord, but what Thou art! That, that alone can be my soul's true rest; Thy love, not mine, bids fear and doubt depart, And stills the tempest of my tossing breast. HORATIUS BONAR WHEN you go to prayer, your first thought must be: The Father is in secret, the Father waits me there. Just because your heart is cold and prayerless, get you into the presence of the loving Father. As a father pitie

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it. MALACHI 1:13 My soul cleaveth unto the dust; quicken Thou me according to Thy word. PSALMS 119:25 Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. EPHESIANS 5:14 THERE are some who give up their prayers because they have so little feeling in their prayers--so little warmth of feeling. But who told us that feeling was to be a test of prayer? The work of prayer is a far too noble and necessary wo