October 2 “And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place.” (Luke 9:10.) IN order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make moreRead More …

October 1 “It is good for me that I have been afflicted.” (Psalm 119:71.) IT is a remarkable circumstance that the most brilliant colors of plants are to be seen on the highest mountains, in spots that are most exposed to the wildest weather. The brightest lichens and mosses, theRead More …

September 30 “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and, there was no strange God with him.” (Deut. 32:11, 12.) OUR Almighty Parent delights to conduct the tenderRead More …

September 29 “I will give myself unto prayer.” (Psalm 109:4.) WE are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in minutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much ofRead More …

September 28 “In me… peace.” (John 16:33.) THERE is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in theRead More …

September 27 “I have found an atonement.” (Job 33:24, margin.) DIVINE healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowingRead More …

September 26 “We walk by faith, not by appearance.” (2 Cor. 5:7, R. V.) BY faith, not appearance; God never wants us to look at our feelings. Self may want us to; and Satan may want us to. But God wants us to face facts, not feelings; the facts ofRead More …

September 25 “Why go I mourning?” (Psalm 42:9.) CANST thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who told thee that the winter ofRead More …

September 24 “After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.” (Acts 16:7.) WHAT a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to do Christ’s work, and the door is shut against them by Christ’s own Spirit. I, too,Read More …

September 23 “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his inner being shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38.) SOME of us are shivering and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not giveRead More …