Have more Faith in God, and more calmness and resignation in all the events of life Heaven is within you! heaven with all its peace and love, and if you keep free from guile this day will be one of heavenly joy with heaven so near, and daily communion with God, how can we ever repine? -Gold Dust. THE SACRED TEXT 22 Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and upright in Thy judgments. Thy testimonies that Thou hast commanded are righteous and Faithful. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT —Psa. 119: 138. Would that we had the Faith to look up from every trying circumstance, from every fretting worry, from every annoyance and temptation, into the face of our guide, and say: "It is the right way. Thou great Shepherd of the sheep: lead Thou me on! "Lead thou me on O'er moor and glen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone." -F. B. Meyer. THE SACRED TEXT 23 A talebearer revealeth secrets; but he that is of a Faithful spirit concealeth the -Pro. 11: 13. matter. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT The evil word—and oh, remember this— is a step, a long step beyond the evil thought; and it is a step toward the precipice's edge. -F. W. Farrar. Always pray for patience, every day will bring something that will call for its exercise. Never give speech its full liberty, but always keep it under control-Have Faith in the promised strength sufficient for all your needs --it will help you to do this. -Unknown. THE SACRED TEXT 24 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the Faith, prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? -2 Cor. 13:5. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT Be sure of God, with simple loving worship, by continual obedience, by purifying yourself even as He is pure, creep close, keep close to Him. Be sure of God and nothing can overthrow or drown you Nature is beautiful and fellow men are dear, and duty is close beside us, and He is over us and in us. What more do we want except to be more thankful and more Faithful and more worthy of the tasks and privileges He has given us. -Phillips Brooks. 25 Have What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. -Mark 11: 22, 24. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT With the prayer of Faith we everything. Look at Mark 11: 24. can do A text that has saved more than one soul from madness in the hour of sorrow; and it is so simple and wide-wide as eternity, simple as light, true as God Himself. If we are to do great things it must be in the spirit of that -Charles Kingsley. text. THE SACRED TEXT 26 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me. -Gen. 20: 6. The Lord is Faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. -2 Thes. 3:3. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT God is Faithful: and I believe He will lay no heavier burden on any one of us than we can carry well, whether in the way of trial, or in the way of temptation Because God loves us, because Christ died, because having risen again He shed forth the Spirit in our hearts, therefore under the fiercest assaults of Satan the soul may be safe. -F. W. Farrar. THE SACRED TEXT 27 They rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of Faith. peace and holiness; disobey it, and you will lose the light of God's countenance, until you repent and learn to obey once more. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the Faith that is within him. THE SACRED TEXT 28 -Sydney Smith. 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. -Gal. 2: 20. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT Faith exalts in our time even the kinship which it beholds between God and man, and well it may. An essential community of being between divinity and humanity is the great postulate of a reasonable religion. All knowledge of God, all profound trust, and all intelligent worship must depend upon the assumption that men are the children of the infinite. 43 -George A. Gordon. |