JUNE 15TH. The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.-2 Corinthians iv. 18. HE heir to some great estate, while a child, THE thinks more of a dollar in his pocket than all his inheritance. So even some professing Christians are more elated by a passing pleasure than they are by their title to eternal glory. JUNE 16th. Faith without works is dead.-James ii. 20. You may very often see dead fish floating with the stream, but you never saw dead fish swimming against it. Well, that is your false believer. Profession is just floating down the stream, but confession is swimming against it, no matter how strong the tide. JUNE 17th. Blessed are ye when men thew v. 4. persecute you.-Mat LISTEN to Paul in the jail at Philippi. "If God wants me to go to heaven by way of this prison," he says, "it is all the same to me; rejoice and be exceeding glad, Silas. I thank God that I am accounted worthy to suffer for Jesus' sake." And as they sang their praises to God, the other prisoners heard them; but, what was far more important, the Lord heard them, and the old prison shook. Talk about Alexander the Great making the world tremble with his armies. Here is a little tent-maker who makes the world tremble without any army! I JUNE 18th. I am the light of the world.-John vii. 12. HEARD of an infidel once who said, "Look at your convert; it is all moonshine." The young convert replied to him, "I thank you for the compliment. We are perfectly willing to be called that. The moon borrows the light from the sun, and so we borrow ours from Christ." JUNE 19th. Though He was rich yet for your sakes He became poor.-2 Corinthians viii. 9. THIS poor world is groaning and sighing for sympathy-human sympathy. I am quite sure it was that in Christ's life which touched the hearts of the common people. He made Himself one with them. He who was rich for our sakes became poor. He was born in the manger so that He might put Himself on a level with the lowest of the low. JUNE 20th. Take ye away the stone.-John xi. 39. BEFORE the act of raising Lazarus could be do. performed, the disciples had their part to Christ could have removed the stone with a word. It would have been very easy for Him to have commanded it to roll away, and it would have obeyed His voice, as the dead Lazarus did when He called him back to life. But the Lord would have His children learn this lesson: that they have something to do toward raising the spiritually dead. The disciples had not only to take away the stone, but after Christ had raised Lazarus they had to "loose and let him go." JUNE 21st. Like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.-Isaiah lvii. 20. THE saith my God. 'HE only thing that can keep us from peace is sin. God turneth the way of the wicked upside down. There is no peace for the wicked, They are like the troubled sea that cannot rest, casting up filth and mire all the while; but peace with God by faith in Jesus Christ-peace through the knowledge of forgiven sin, is like a rock; the waters go dashing and surging past, but it abides. 35. Do good. Lo OVE never looks to see what it is going to get in return. I have generally found that those workers who are all the time looking to see how much they are going to get from the Lord are never satisfied. But love does its work and makes no bargain. JUNE 23d. Born again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible.-1 Peter i. 23. OD has not only adopted us, but we are GOD His by birth: we have been born into His kingdom. My boy was as much mine when he was a day old as now that he is fourteen. He was my son; although it did not appear what he would be when he attained manhood. He is mine; although he may have to undergo probation under tutors and governors. The children of God are not perfect; but we are perfectly His children. JUNE 24th. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.-Hebrews xi. 1. HIS is the Bible definition of Faith. THIS The best definition I ever saw outside the Bible is: Dependence on the veracity of another. In other words, Faith says Amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any "If's." If God says it, Faith says, "I believe it"; Faith says "Amen" to it. JUNE 25th. So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews iii. 19. WHEN the Israelites first came out of Egypt God would have led them right up into the land of Canaan if it had not been for their accursed unbelief. But they desired something besides God's word; so they were turned back, and had to wander in the desert for forty years. I believe there are thousands of God's children wandering in the wilderness still. The Lord has delivered them from the hand of the Egyptian, and would at once take them through the wilderness right into the Promised Land, if they were only willing to follow Christ. Christ has been down here, and has made the rough places smooth, and the dark places light, and the crooked places straight. If we will only be led by Him right into the land of promise, all will be peace, and joy, and rest. JUNE 26th. I rejoiced greatly when the brethren testified of the truth that is in thee.-3 John i. 3. THERE is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most |