MARCH 3d.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.-) -Revelation xxi. 7.

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USED to have my Sabbath-school children

sing "I want to be an angel"; but I have not done so for years. We shall be above angels: we shall be sons of God. Just see what a kingdom we shall come into. We shall inherit all things! Do you ask me how much I am worth? I don't know. The Rothschilds cannot compute their wealth. They don't know how many millions they own. That is my condition-I haven't the slightest idea how much I am worth. God has no poor children. If we overcome we shall inherit all things.

MARCH 4th.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?-James ii. 14.

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BELIEVE in a faith that you can see; a

living, working faith that prompts to action. Faith without works is like a man putting all his money into the foundation of a house; and works without faith is like building a house on sand without any foundation.

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You often hear people say: "The root of the matter is in him." What would you say I had a garden and nothing but roots in it?

MARCH 5th.

Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come.John xvi. 13.

'HERE is not a truth that we ought to know

THERE

but the Spirit of God will guide us into it if we will let Him. If we will yield ourselves up to be directed by Him and let Him lead us, He will guide us into all truth. It would have saved us from a great many dark hours if we had only been willing to let the Spirit of God be our counsellor and guide.

Lot never would have gone to Sodom if he had been guided by the Spirit of God. David never would have fallen into sin and had all that trouble with his family if he had been guided by the Spirit of God.

There are many Lots and Davids nowadays. The churches are full of them. Men and women are in total darkness, because they have not been willing to be guided by the Spirit. "He shall guide you into all truth."

MARCH 6th.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes.—Psalm cxix. 71.

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DEAD level in a man's life would be his

ruin? If he had nothing but prosperity, he would be ruined. A man can stand adver

I know a great

sity better than prosperity. many who have become very prosperous, but I know few such that haven't lost all their piety, that haven't lost sight of that city eternal in the heavens, whose builder and maker is God. Earthly things have drawn their heart's affections away from eternal things.

MARCH 7th.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backsliding shall reprove thee; know, therefore, and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that My fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.-Jeremiah xi. 19.

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DO not exaggerate when I say that I have seen hundreds of backsliders come back, and I have asked them if they had not found it an evil and a bitter thing to leave the Lord. You cannot find a real backslider, who has known the Lord, but will admit that it is an evil and a bitter thing to turn away from Him; and I do not know of any one verse more used to bring back wanderers than this very one.

Look at Lot. Did not he find it an evil and a bitter thing? He was twenty years in Sodom and never made a convert. Men would have told you that he was one of the most influential and worthy men in all Sodom. But alas! alas! he ruined his family. And it is a pitiful sight

to see that old backslider going through the streets of Sodom at midnight, after he has warned his children, and they have turned a deaf ear to him.

MARCH 8th.

Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.Luke x. 20.

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SOLDIER, wounded during our civil war, lay dying in his cot. Suddenly the deathlike stillness of the room was broken by the cry, "Here! Here!" which burst from the lips of the dying man. Friends rushed to the spot and

asked what he wanted.

"Here!

“Hark” he said, "they are calling the roll of heaven, and I am answering to my name." In a few moments he whispered, once more, and passed into the presence of the King.

MARCH 9th.

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.-2 Corinthians i. II.

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OU have heard the story of the child who was rescued from the fire that was raging in a house away up in the fourth story. The child came to the window, and as the flames were shooting up higher and higher cried out

for help. A fireman started up the ladder. The wind swept the flames near him, and it was getting so hot that he wavered. Thousands looked on, and their hearts quaked at the thought of the child having to perish. Some one in the crowd cried: "Give him a cheer!" Cheer

after cheer went up, and as the man heard he gathered fresh courage. Up he went into the midst of the smoke and the fire, and brought down the child in safety.

If you cannot go and rescue the perishing yourself, you can at least pray for those who do, and cheer them on. If you do, the Lord will

bless the effort. Do

not grumble and criticise;

it takes neither heart nor brains to do that.

MARCH 10th.

Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.-John viii. 21.

ONE sentence from the lips of the Son of

God in regard to the future state has forever settled it in my mind. "Ye shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come." If a man has not given up his drunkenness, his profanity, his licentiousness, his covetousness, heaven would be hell to him. Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people. What would a man do in heaven who cannot bear to be in the society of the pure and holy down here?