February 14th At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. Num. 9:23. This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If as Israelite, in the desert, had taken it into his head to make some movement independentRead More …

February 13th All… saw his face as it had been the face of an angel Acts 6:15. The face is made every day by its morning prayer, and by its morning look out of windows which open upon heaven. —Joseph Parker Thoughts for the Quiet Hour.

February 12th What means these stones? Josh. 4:21. Ye also as living stones. 1 Pet. 2:5. (R. V.) There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, “What does this mean?”… Is there anything in yourRead More …

February 11th As many as I love I… chasten. Rev. 3:19. I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. ItRead More …

February 10th He loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue. Luke 7:5. Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may be seldom read. Carve your names on human hearts; they alone are immortal! —Theodore Cuyler Thoughts for the Quiet Hour.

February 9th Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, Isa. 30:18. This is God’s way. In the darkest hours of the night His tread draws near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel comes to Peter’s cell. When the scaffoldRead More …

February 8th Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house. Gen. 12:1. Abraham… was gathered to his people. Gen. 25:8. After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted over a great archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing betweenRead More …

February 7th Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea 6:3. The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the plain where God’s throneRead More …

February 6th He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. 1 John 2:6. The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.—Selected Thoughts for the Quiet Hour.

February 5th Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord…. The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. Psa. 134:1, 3. If I would know the love of my friend, I must see what it can do in theRead More …