Watch yet awhile, Watch till the day When all save love shall pass away. -Christina G. Rossetti. THE SACRED TEXT 8 And when He saw their Faith He said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. -Luke 5: 20. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT One deep calleth to another, and the answer to this call is Faith. Faith addresses itself to man's whole being, it sounds every depth; it touches every spring; it calls back the soul from its weary search within itself, full of doubt and contradiction, it presents it with an object, implicit, absolute, greater than itself. One that knoweth all things." It provides for every affection, every want and aspiration. -Dora Greenwall. THE SACRED TEXT 9 Be thou Faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. -Rev. 2: 10. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT God doth not leave His own! The sorrow in their life He doth permit, To speed His children on their heaven We must live nobly to love nobly. -Charles Kingsley. THE SACRED TEXT 10 Unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. For by grace are ye saved, through Faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. -Epb. 4:7; 2: 8. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT Faith to be genuine and good invariably unites a man to the living and ever present reality. near and present to man. God, as a vivid Christ brings God -Noah Porter. THE SACRED TEXT 11 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so Faith without works is dead also. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT -Jas. 2: 26. Great principles find their proper issue in the Faithful performance of little duties. -F. W. Farrar. Cultivate the whole of the nature which God has given you, and in doing so, remember that the mind is of more moment than the body, and the soul than both. Here hath been dawning Another blue day, Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away? THE HELPFUL THOUGHT Each of you is a soldier. fight the good fight of Faith. struggle with your own besetting sins, and You have to You have to with the evils of the world. And if you overcome, the promise of the God of Love is -Hugh Macmillian. given you. THE SACRED TEXT 13 Speak the truth in Christ in Faith and verity. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT -1 Tim. 2: 7. Be not downcast if difficulties and trials surround you in your life. They may be purposely placed there by God to train and discipline you for the higher developments of Faith. Whatever the Faith may be, however limited, if it be a man's own and lived up to it will be sure to increase. -William Lawrence. THE SACRED TEXT 14 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. I know thy works and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my -Rev. 2:13 Faith. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT Faith though given in answer to prayer is Faith we have three things to do—to ask it, to exercise it-and to contemplate examples of it in the study of the Scriptures. And furthermore we must gather Faith for the future: we must grow daily in Faith and grace that we may have provision against the day of trouble. - Unknown. THE SACRED TEXT 15 We are bound to thank God always for you because that your Faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth. THE HELPFUL THOUGHT -2 Thes. 1: 3. Faith is the bright silver thread that runs through the whole biography of the Christian giving continuity, consistency and glory to all. - Unknown. True wisdom, true understanding is shown by a course of life spent in meeknees, which is the attribute of wisdom. -F. W. Farrar. THE SACRED TEXT 16 And His name, through Faith in His name, hath made this man strong. -Acts 3: 16. |