FEBRUARY 23d.

I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord.-Romans viii.

38, 39.

THERE

'HERE can be no true peace, there can be no true hope, there can be no true comfort, where there is uncertainty. I am not fit for God's service, I cannot go out and work for God, if I am in doubt about my own salvation.

FEBRUARY 24th.

And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.-Genesis xiv.

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FOR

awhile Lot did make money very fast in Sodom, and became a very successful man. If you had gone into Sodom a little. while before destruction came, you would have found that Lot owned some of the best corner lots in town, and that Mrs. Lot moved in what they called the bonton society or upper ten; and you would have found that she was at the theatre two or three nights in the week. If they had progressive euchre, she could play as well as anybody; and her daughters could dance as well as any other Sodomites. We find Lot

sitting in the gates, he is getting on amazingly well. He may have been one of the principal men in the city; Judge Lot, or the Honorable Mr. Lot of Sodom. They might have elected him Mayor of Sodom. He was getting on amazingly well; wonderfully prosperous. If you

But by and by there comes a war. go into Sodom, you must take Sodom's judgment when it comes; and it is bound to come. The battle turned against those five cities of the plain, and they took Lot and his wife and all that they had.

FEBRUARY 25th.

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.-Luke vii. 41, 42.

VERY few people think they are lost. You

seldom meet a bankrupt sinner. Most of them think they can pay about seventy-five cents on the dollar; some ninety-nine per cent. -they just come short a little, and they think he Almighty will make it up somehow.

Don't let Satan make you think you are so good that you don't need the grace of God. We are a bad lot, all of us, with nothing to

pay.

FEBRUARY 26th.

Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.Acts xx. 35.

WHAT makes the Dead Sea dead?

Be

cause it is all the time receiving, but never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out.

FEBRUARY 27th.

My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.—1 Corinthians. ii. 4.

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ANY people think that we need new meas

ures, that we need new churches, that we need new organs, and that we need new choirs, and all these new things. But what the Church of God needs to-day is the old power that the apostles had: if we have that in our churches, there will be new life. Then we will have new ministers-the same old ministers renewed with power, filled with the Spirit.

I remember when in Chicago many were toiling in the work, and it seemed as though the car of salvation didn't move on, when a minister began to cry out from the very depths of his heart, "Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit." The next Monday I heard two or

three men say, "We had a new minister last Sunday the same old minister, but he had got new power." I firmly believe that is what we want to-day all over the land. We want new ministers in the pulpit and new people in the pews. We want people quickened by the Spirit of God.

FEBRUARY 28th.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.— Luke xiii. 24.

WHO

WHO are we to strive with? Not with the gate-keeper. The gate-keeper stands with the gate wide open, and he says, "Come in, come in!" All the striving is with the flesh; it is with this old carnal nature of ours.

MARCH IST.

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.-Acts ii. 24.

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CAN imagine when they laid our Lord in Joseph's tomb one might have seen Death sitting over that sepulcher, saying,

"I have Him; He is my victim. He said He was the Resurrection and the Life. Now I hold Him in my cold embrace. They thought He was never going to die; but see Him now. He has had to pay tribute to me."

Never!

The glorious morning comes, the Son of man bursts asunder the hands of death, and rises, a conqueror, from the grave. "Because I live," He shouts, "ye shall live also." Yes, we shall live also-is it not good news?

MARCH 2d.

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.Daniel iii. 17, 18.

THOSE Hebrews spoke respectfully, but

firmly. And mark, they did not absolutely say that God would deliver them from the burning fiery furnace; but they declared that He was able to deliver them.

doubt about His ability to do it.

They had no

They believed

that He could do it; but they did not hide from themselves the possibility of Nebuchadnezzar being allowed to carry out his threats. Still, that did not greatly move them. "But if not," -if in His inscrutable purposes He allows us to suffer,-" still our resolve is the same : we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." They were not afraid to pass from the presence of the king of Babylon to the presence of the King of kings.