this young man all O O?” Said the London man, "What do you mean by OO?" Replied the Dublin man, "Is he Out-and-Out for Christ?" I tell you it burned down into my soul. It means a good deal to be O O for Christ.

JUNE 6th.

Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face.-1 Corinthians xiii. 12.

THE

'HE word Paul used, properly translated, is "mirror." Now, we see God, as it were, in a mirror, but then, face to face.

Suppose we knew nothing of the sun except what we saw of its light reflected from the moon? Would we not wonder about its immense distance, about its dazzling splendor, about its life-giving power? But all that we see, the sun, the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, the flowers, and above all, man, are a grand mirror in which the perfection of God is imperfectly reflected.

JUNE 7th.

Ye are not under law but under grace.-Romans

vi. 14.

WHEN

WHEN Moses was in Egypt, to punish Pharaoh he turned the waters into blood. When Chirst was on earth He turned the water into wine. That is the difference between law

and grace.

The law

says,

"Kill him"; grace

"Condemn

When the

says, "Forgive him." Law says,

"Love him."

him"; grace says, "Love him."

law came out of Horeb three thousand men

were destroyed. cost, under grace, three thousand men found life. (Acts ii. 41.) What a difference! When Moses came to the burning bush, he was commanded to take the shoes from off his feet. When the prodigal came home after sinning he was given a pair of shoes to put on his feet. I would a thousand times rather be under grace than under the law.

(Ex. xxxii. 28.) At Pente

JUNE 8th.

Everlasting joy.-Isaiah xxxv. 2.

I THINK there is a difference between hap

piness and joy. Happi-ness is caused by things which happen around me, and circumstances will mar it, but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows on through the dark; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows all through persecution and opposition; it is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring which the world can't see and don't know anything about. The Lord gives His people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to Him.

JUNE 9th.

Arise, shine.-Isaiah lx. 1.

LOVE must be active, as light must shine. As some one has said: "A man may

hoard up his money; he may bury his talents in a napkin; but there is one thing he cannot hoard up, and that is love." You cannot bury it. It must flow out. It cannot feed upon itself; it must have an object.

JUNE 10th.

Wilt thou not tell.-Ezekiel xxiv. 19.

WE may not be able to do any great thing;

but if each of us will do something, how

ever small it may be, a good deal will be accomplished for God. For many years I have made it a rule not to let any day pass without speaking to some one about eternal things. I commenced it away back years ago, and if I live the life allotted to man, there will be more than eighteen thousand persons who will have been spoken to personally by me. How often we as Christians meet with people, when we might turn the conversation into a channel that will lead them up to Christ.

JUNE 11th.

And things which are despised, hath God chosen. -I Corinthians i. 28.

NOTICE that all the men whom Christ

called around Him were weak men in a worldly sense. They were all men without rank, without title, without position, without wealth or culture. Nearly all of them were fishermen and unlettered men; yet Christ chose them to build up His kingdom. When God wanted to bring the children of Israel out of bondage, He did not send an army; He sent one solitary man. So in all ages God has used the weak things of the world to accomplish His purposes.

JUNE 12th.

Yea the faith that is by Him, hath given him this perfect soundness.-Acts iii. 16.

FAITH is the hand that takes the blessing.

But don't look too much at the hand. Suppose I ask a man who has just received a thousand dollars of a friend: "Did he give it to you with his right hand?" He would reply: "What do I care about which hand; so that I have got the money."

JUNE 13th.

To every man his work.—Mark xiii. 34. IF you notice that verse carefully it does not read "to every man some work," or “ to every man a work," but "to every man his work." And I believe that every man and woman living has a work laid out for them to do; that every man's life is a plan of the Almighty, and that away back in the councils of eternity God laid out a work for every one of us. There is no man living who can do the work that God has for me to do, no one but myself. And if any man's work is not done, he will have to answer for it when he stands before the bar of God.

JUNE 14th.

The Lord will give grace and glory.-Psalms lxxxiv. II.

THERE is not such a great difference be

tween grace and glory after all. Grace is the bud, and glory the blossom. Grace is glory begun, and glory is grace perfected. It will not come hard to people who are serving God down here to do it when they go up yonder. They will change places, but they will not change employments.