MR. MOODY'S FAVORITE TEXTS.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.-Isaiah 12:2.

The Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded, therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know I shall not be ashamed.-Isaiah 50:7.

JANUARY IST.

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

Let not your

heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.-John xiv. 27.

DID you ever think that when Christ was

dying on the cross, He made a will? Perhaps you have thought that no one ever remembered you in a will. If you are in the kingdom, Christ remembered you in His. He willed His body to Joseph of Arimathea, He willed His mother to John, the son of Zebedee, and He willed His spirit back to His Father. But to His disciples He said,

"My peace, I leave that with you; that is My legacy. My joy, I give that to you."

"My joy," think of it! "My peace"-not our peace, but His peace!

They say a man can't make a will now that lawyers can't break, and drive a four-in-hand right straight through it. I will challenge them to break Christ's will; let them try it. No judge or jury can set that aside. Christ rose to

execute His own will. If He had left us a lot of gold, thieves would have stolen it in the first century; but He left His peace and His joy for every true believer, and no power on earth can take it from him who trusts.

JANUARY 2d.

For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.-2 Corinthians i. 20.

S there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken His Word? I defy any infidel to come forward and put his finger on any promise God has ever made to man that He has not kept.

I can show how for six thousand years the devil has lied, and how he has broken every promise he has made. What a lie he told Adam and Eve! Yet I can find a thousand men that will believe the devil's lies sooner than I can find one man that will believe God's truth.

JANUARY 3d.

By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.-John xiii. 35.

How

OW are you going to tell whether you are a Christian or not? Not by the fact that you are a Catholic or a Protestant, not that you subscribe to some creed that man has drawn up. We must have something better than that. What did Christ say? "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."

When I was first converted, I used to wish

But I

that every Christian would wear a badge, because I would like to know them; my heart went out toward the household of faith. have got over that. Every hypocrite would have a badge inside of thirty days, if Christianity should become popular. No badge outside; but God gives us a badge in the heart. The man that hasn't any love in his creed may let it go to the winds; I don't want it. "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another." Love is the fruit of the Spirit. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His."

JANUARY 4th.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.—Hebrews xiii. 14.

URELY it is not wrong for us to think and

SUREL

talk about heaven. I like to locate it, and find out all I can about it. I expect to live there through all eternity. If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors I would have, about everything, in fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel. Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while. We are going to spend eternity in another