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Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him. DEUTERONOMY 13:4 GOD visits a soul when He brings before it a new vision of truth or duty, a new range of opportunities, a new endowment of force as well as insight, at some time to which all that precedes has led up, and from which all that follows depends in its solemn history. No Divine visitation leaves us where it found us; it al

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. PROVERBS 16:20 THIS world of ours is a happy world, so that God is our end, so that we can say to Him, "Thou art my God." Then everything takes new hues of joy and love. Our daily comforts have a soul in them, for they abound in thanksgiving; our daily infirmities or crosses have a special joy in them, because they are so tenderly fitted to us by the medicinal hand of our God; the commonest acts of life are full of deep in­terest, beca

He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 JOHN 2:17 I am Thine, save me. PSALMS 119:94 TAKE, O Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given it to me; to Thee, O Lord, I restore it; all is Thine, dispose of it ac­cording to Thy will. Give me Thy love and Thy grace, for this is enough for me. Are we willing to give ourselves entirely to God; to let Him do with us whatever He pleases; to follow a

In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. ISAIAH 63:9 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. PSALMS 103:13 GOD only knows the love of God: Oh, that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart; For love I sigh, for love I pine; This only portion, Lord, be mine, Be mine this better part. CHARLES WESLEY DON'T measure God's mind by your own. It would be a poor love that depended not on itself, but on the feelings of the person love

In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. ISAIAH 63:9 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. PSALMS 103:13 GOD only knows the love of God: Oh, that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart; For love I sigh, for love I pine; This only portion, Lord, be mine, Be mine this better part. CHARLES WESLEY DON'T measure God's mind by your own. It would be a poor love that depended not on itself, but on the feelings of the person love

Oh, that thou hadst hearkened to My command­ments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. ISAIAH 48:18 IT is so easy to become more thick-skinned in con­science, more tolerant of evil, more hopeless of good, more careful of one's own comfort and one's own property, more self-satisfied in leaving high aims and great deeds to enthusiasts, and then to believe that one is growing older and wiser. And yet those high examples, those good

Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him. DEUTERONOMY 13:4 GOD visits a soul when He brings before it a new vision of truth or duty, a new range of opportunities, a new endowment of force as well as insight, at some time to which all that precedes has led up, and from which all that follows depends in its solemn history. No Divine visitation leaves us where it found us; it al

I have sinned; for I have transgressed the com­mandment of the Lord; because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 1 SAMUEL 15:24 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men. ISAIAH 51:7 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. EXODUS 23:2 ALL timidity, irresolution, fear of ridicule, weak­ness of purpose, such as the Apostles showed when they deserted Christ, and Peter especially when he denied

I have made the earth, and created man upon it; I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways. ISAIAH 45:12,13 HE who suns and worlds upholdeth Lends us His upholding hand; He the ages who unfoldeth Doth our times and ways command. God is for us; In His strength and stay we stand. THOMAS H. GILL YOU have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust H

And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light. MATTHEW 17:2 Master, it is good for us to be here. MARK 9:5 MASTER, it is good to be Entranced, enwrapt, alone with Thee; Watching the glistering raiment glow, Whiter than Hermon's whitest snow; The human lineaments that shine Irradiant with a light Divine: Till we too change from grace to grace, Gazing on that transfigured face. A. P. STANLEY THE Transfiguration has l

Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. PSALMS 145:16 THERE'S not a craving in the mind Thou dost not meet and still; There's not a wish the heart can have Which Thou dost not fulfill. FMERICK W. FABER YOU will see the truth about the eternal life soon; I don't think it is possible to live up to the highest point of duty and of happiness without this. I know, one can go on doing one's duty thoroughly under clouds of doubt, and even in complet

Blessed are all they that wait for Him. ISAIAH 30:19 I WILL trust again His love, His power, Though I cannot feel His hand to-day; To His help anew I will betake me, Though His countenance seems turned away! Though without one smile, one gracious token, Through the flames and floods my path must go, When the fires subside, the waves pass over, My Deliverer I again shall know. JOACHIM LANGE IN the night of distress, feel after somewhat which may quiet and stay thy heart till t

And He said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. LUKE 9:23 WE pray Thee, grant us strength to take Our daily cross, whate'er it be, And gladly for Thine own dear sake In paths of pain to follow Thee. W. W. HOW THE more you accept daily crosses as daily bread, in peace and simplicity, the less they will injure your frail, delicate health; but forebodings and frettings would soon kill you. FRANCOIS DE LA M

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. EPHESIANS 2:4,5 LORD, to Thy call of me I bow, Obey like Abraham; Thou lov'st me becaase Thou art Thou, And I am what I am. Doubt whispers, "thou art such a blot He cannot love poor thee." If what I am He loveth not, He loves what I shall be. GEORGE MACDONALD WE may hate ourselves when we come to realize failings we have not recogniz

Seek the LORD, and His strength: seek His face evermore. PSALMS 105:4 O JESUS CHRIST, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede; My heart be daily nearer Thee, From sin be daily freed. Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name. J. C. LAVATER AS, on rising, we should hear Him saying to us, "Take this yoke upon thee, my child, to-day," "Bear this burden for me and with me to-day," so, before

I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. ISAIAH 16 WHEN over dizzy heights we go, One soft hand blinds our eyes, The other leads us, safe and slow, O Love of God most wise! ELIZA SCUDDER THE simple thought of a life which is to be the unfolding of a Divine plan is too beautiful, too captivat

He that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. --ROMANS 14:18 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all Thy commandments. --PSALMS 119:6 TRUE fidelity consists in obeying God in all things, and in following the light that points out our duty, and the grace which guides us; taking as our rule of life the intention to please God in all things, and to do always not only what is acceptable to Him, but, if possible, what is most a

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. LUKE 12:48 GOD is ever seeking an entrance, and the avenue to the heart is closed against Him; He enters in, and is rudely thronged, or jostled, or civilly put off, or promised an audience at a more convenient season, if He is not, by deadly sin, cast out. How many calls by God's providence, by the tender austerity of His afflictions, by His compassion, His bounties, by the deaths of others, or our own prolonged li