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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings. 1 PETER 4:12, 13 NOT more than I can bear I know Thou, dearest Lord, wilt on me lay, And I can learn of Thee to go Unfearing on my way. HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL IT is a tremendous moment when first one is called upon to join the great army of those who suffer. That vast world of love and p

Choose life, . . . that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him; for He is thy life, and the length of thy days. DEUTERONOMY 30:19,20 GOD gently calls us every day: Why should we then our bliss delay? He calls to heaven and endless light; Why should we love the dreary night? Praise, Lord, to Thee for Matthew's call, At which he rose and left his all; Thou, Lord, e'en now art calling me; I will leave all, and

Great peace have they which love Thy law; and they have none occasion of stumbling. PSALMS 119:165 (R. V.) IN Thy might all things I bear, In Thy love find bitter sweet, And with all my grief and care, Sit in patience at Thy feet. A. H. FRANCKE WHAT you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him so to work in you to will, as to bring your whole

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. PSALMS 91:1 AS soon as I woke in the morning I threw myself into the arms of Divine Love as a child does into its father's arms. I rose to serve Him, and to perform my daily labor simply that I might please Him. If I had time for prayer, I fell on my knees in His divine presence, consecrated myself to Him, and begged Him that He would accomplish His holy will perfectly in me an

Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abun­dantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. EPHESIANS 3:20,21 ALL the simplest, most living, and most genuine Christians of our own time are such as rest their souls, day by day, on this confidence and promise of accruing power, and make themselves responsible, not for what they have in some inherent

The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. PSALMS 37:11 Joy is Thy gift, 0 Father! Thou wouldst not have us pine; In darkest hours Thy comfort Doth aye most brightly shine; Ah, then how oft Thy voice Hath shed its sweetness o'er me, And opened heaven before me, And bid my heart rejoice! PAUL GERHARDT TO be with God, in whatever stage of being, under whatever conditions of existence, is to be in heaven. DORA GREENWELL I perceive w

I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us. ISAIAH 63:7 Be content with such things as ye have. HEBREWS 13:5 My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 4:19 BEGIN with thanking Him for some little thing, and then go on, day by day, adding to your subjects of praise; thus you will find their numbers grow wonderfully; and, in the same proporti

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it, and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not He render unto every man according to his works? PROVERBS 24:11, 12 WHAT we value for ourselves we must seek to spread to others; and what we shrink from ourselves--lowering surroundings, a tainted atmosphere--what we shrink to

I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. PSALMS 101:2 TEACH me, 0 God, Thy holy way, And give me an obedient mind; That in Thy service I may find My soul's delight from day to day. WILLIAM TIDD MATSON AS far as human frailty will permit, each little trifling piece of duty which presents itself to us in daily life, if it be only a compliance with some form of social courtesy, should receive a consecration, by setting God--His will, word, and Providence--before us in i

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scrip­ture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. JAMES 2:8 DO you feel yourself alone and empty‑hearted? Then you have necessity indeed for fortitude and brave endurance, but above all and before all you must get out of your solitude. You cannot command for yourself the love you would gladly receive; it is not in our power to do that; but that noble love which is not asking but giving,--that you can always have. Wher

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ROMANS 13:10 In her tongue is the law of kindness. PROVERBS 31:26 THE worst kinds of unhappiness, as well as the greatest amount of it, come from our conduct to each other. If our conduct, therefore, were under the control of kindness, it would be nearly the opposite of what it is, and so the state of the world would be almost reversed. We are for the most part unhappy, because the world is an u

And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. COLOSSIANS 3:14 (R. V.) THOU hatest hatred's withering reign; In souls that discord maketh dark Dost Thou rekindle love's bright spark, And make them one again. PAUL GERHARDT WE have cause to suspect our religion if it does not make us gentle, and forbearing, and forgiving; if the love of our Lord does not so flood our hearts as to cleanse them of all bitterness, and spite, and wrath. If a man is nursi

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you; abide ye in my love. JOHN 15:9 (R. V.) ABIDE IN ME: These words are the command of love, which is ever only a promise in a different shape. Think of this until all feeling of burden and fear and despair pass away, and the first thought that comes as you hear of abiding in Jesus be one of bright and joyous hope. ANDREW MURRAY When love is heard inviting more trust, more love, the encouragement to trust, to love, goes be

Sing unto the Lord, 0 ye saints of His, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness. PSALMS 30:4 GLAD with Thy light, and glowing with Thy love, So let me ever speak and think and move As fits a soul new-touched with life from heaven; That seeks but so to order all her course As most to show the glory of that Source By whom alone her strength, her life are given. C. J. P. SPITTA OUR Christianity is apt to be of a very "dutiful" kind. We mean to do our duty, we attend c

I will abide in Thy tabernacle for ever; I will trust in the covert of Thy wings. PSALMS 61:4 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel. PSALMS 16:7 WOULD it not be possible for every man to double his intellectual force by keeping much in the company of Infinite Wisdom? E. P. TENNEY I cannot help the thought which grows steadily upon me, that the better part of prayer is not the asking, but the kneeling where we can ask, the resting there, the staying there, drawing o

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 "I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills." The vision of God unseals the lips of man. Herein lies strength for conflict with the common enemy of the praying world known as wandering thoughts. If the eye is fixed on God, thought may roam where it will without irreverence, for every thought is then con­verted into a prayer. Some have found it a useful thing when their minds have wandered off fr

Ye yourselves are taught of God to love one an­other. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:9 If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us. 1 JOHN 4:12 THIS is the great business and meaning of our life on earth: that we should more and more yield up our hearts to God's great grace of love; that we should let it enter ever more fully and more freely into us, so that it may even fill our whole heart and life. We must day after day be driving back, in His strength, t

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. . . . Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 2:2, 5 JESUS, Thy all-victorious love Shed in my heart abroad; Then shall my feet no longer rove, Rooted and fixed in God. My steadfast soul, from falling free, Shall then no longer move, While Christ is all the world to me, And all my heart is love. CHARLES WESLEY LET our temper be under the rule of the lo

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. EZEKIEL 34:12 The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. GALATIANS 2:20 PERVERSE and foolish, oft I strayed, But yet in love He sought me, And on His shoulder gently laid, And home rej

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. JEREMIAH 9:23, 24 WHAT dost thou fear? His wisdom reigns Supreme confessed; His power is infinite; His love T

Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing. PSALMS 37:8 (R. V.) To anxious, prying thought, And weary, fretting care, The Highest yieldeth nought; He giveth all to prayer. PAUL GERHARDT DO not be disquieted about your faults. Love with­out ceasing, and much will be forgiven you, because you have loved much. Faults perceived in peace, in the spirit of love, are immediately consumed by love itself; but faults perceived in a pettish fit of self-love disturb peace, interrup

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot bear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from You. ISAIAH 59:1,2 ONE thing alone, dear Lord! I dread;-- To have a secret spot That separates my soul from Thee, And yet to know it not. FREDERICK W. FABER IT is a condition of enjoying continued insight into the laws which govern spiritual truth, that we should conform our

I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. ISAIAH 48:17 JUST as God leads me I would go; I would not ask to choose my way; Content with what He will bestow, Assured He will not let me stray. So as He leads, my path I make, And step by step I gladly take, A child in Him confiding. LAMPERTUS GEDICKE HE has not made us for nought; He has brought us thus far, in order to bring us further, in order to bring us on to t

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh, bring Thou me out of my distresses. PSALMS 25:17 Low at His feet lay thy burden of carefulness, High on His heart He will bear it for thee, Comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness, Guiding thy steps as may best for thee be. J. S. B. MONSELL THE greatest burden we have to carry in life is self. The most difficult thing we have to manage is self. Our own daily living, our frames and feelings, our especial weaknesses and tempt