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50916Are gentle moon, or kindling sun, Or stars unnumbered, given As shrines to burn earth''s incense on-- The altar- fires of heaven? 50916 How long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 50916 How long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 50916 O grave, where is thy victory?
50916What am I, that infinite unworthiness and nothingness should be permitted to stand in the presence of infinite purity, majesty, and glory?
50916Where would I have been this night but for_ Him_?
50916what wouldst thou have me to do?"
50916where could I have been this night_ but_ for_ Thee_?
27344Although he fall, yet shall he not be cast down utterly; and why? 27344 Simon, son of Jonas,_ lovest thou me_?"
27344The man,says Augustine,"who says''_ Enough_,''that man''s soul is lost?"
27344Why art thou then cast down, O my soul? 27344 Why tarry the wheels of Thy chariot?"
27344Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord?
27344Wilt thou not revive us, O Lord?
27344--The material sun, which wades through clouds and a troubled sky, sets often in a couch of lustrous gold?
27344Am I living as I should wish I had done when that last hour arrives?"
27344An interceding Saviour was at thy side, saying to every threatening wave,"Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther?"
27344And art thou to claim exemption from the same discipline?
27344And from whom could dying grace come so welcome, as from Thee, O blessed Jesus?
27344And has He not left me to perish?
27344And shall I then, indeed,"_ see God_?"
27344And what, after all, is the severest of thy chastisements in comparison with what thy sins have deserved?
27344And when shall it arrive?
27344Are thy heart''s idols, one by one abolished?
27344Art thou holy?
27344Art thou ready, if called this night to lie down on thy death- pillow, sweetly to fall asleep in Jesus?
27344Art thou to think it strange concerning these same fiery trials that may be trying thee?
27344Art thou wearied with these midnight tossings on life''s tumultuous sea?
27344Believer?
27344But test it in the hour of sorrow; and what can it do for thee when most it is needed?
27344Dost thou murmur under a Father''s correcting love?
27344Has grace begun in thee?
27344Has thy God ever done so?
27344Hast thou closed with these His overtures?
27344Hast thou less conscious nearness to the mercy- seat,--diminished communion with thy Saviour?
27344Having this hope in thee, art thou purifying thyself, even as He is pure?
27344How and where is reviving grace to be found?
27344If the earnest be sweet, what must be the reality?
27344If the rest of thy pilgrimage- way be peaceful and unclouded, rests there a dark and portentous shadow over the terminating portals?
27344If the wilderness table contain such rich provision, what must be the glories of the eternal banqueting house?
27344In a few brief moments after that tear is shed, thy God will be wiping every vestige of it away?
27344Is it loss of health, or loss of wealth, or loss of beloved friends?
27344Is more of thy Saviour''s image impressed on thy character, and thy Saviour''s love more enthroned in thy heart?
27344Is sin crucifying?
27344Is the world less to thee, and eternity more to thee?
27344Is there now some"thorn in the flesh"sent to lacerate thee?
27344Is thy walk less with God, thy frame less heavenly?
27344Is"Salvation"to thee more"the one thing needful?"
27344It tells thee it is no longer a"fearful,"but a_ blessed_ thing to fall into His hands?
27344Leaving all thy false props and refuges, be this thy resolve:"In the Lord put I my trust: why say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?"
27344Like Him!--Hast thou caught up any faint resemblance to that all- glorious image?
27344Like Him!--My soul, art thou waiting this manifestation of the sons of God?
27344Marvel of marvels?
27344My soul, dost not thou love to dwell on that all- abounding grace?
27344My soul, where wouldst thou have been this day, hadst thou not been"_ kept_"by the power of God?
27344Not one stroke of the rod unheeded, or that might have been spared?
27344Not too curiously prying into the"_ Why_ it is?"
27344On the other hand, what though thou hast no other blessing on earth to call thine own?
27344The paths of the Lord?
27344The saddest and sorest of all bereavements, is when the sins which have separated thee from Him, evoke the anguish- cry,"Where is my God?"
27344Thou hast cast off thy God,--might He not oft have"cast out"thee?
27344Thou mayest think thy pilot hath left thee, and be ready continually to say,"Where is my God?"
27344Thy heavenly Father loves thee too much, and too tenderly, to bestow harsher correction than thy case requires?
27344To"walk with God,"--to ask in simple faith,"What wouldst thou have me to do?"
27344What is it?
27344What is the sting of death?
27344What would it have been to have stood the wrath of an unpropitiated Judge, and that, too,_ for ever_?
27344When sight says,"All these things are against me,"let faith rebuke the hasty conclusion, and say,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
27344Why wound thy loving Saviour''s heart by these repeated declensions?
27344Will Jesus accept such a heart as mine?--this erring, treacherous, traitor heart?
27344Wilt thou not be among the number?
27344Wilt thou not trust Him, even though thou canst not trace the mystery of His dealings?
27344Wilt thou not, then, humbly and patiently endure"weeping for the night,"in the prospect of the"joy that cometh in the morning?"
27344Wouldst thou know the hour of thy betrothment?
27344and why art thou disquieted within me?
27344art thou among the number of those who"love His appearing?"
27344art thou at times afraid of this, thy last enemy?
27344art thou conscious of thy declining state?
27344has this mystic union been formed between thee and thy Lord?
27344held me up?"
27344is it night with thee here?
27344is it thine?
27344is not this one cause of thy deadness?
27344is the beggar to be"raised from the dunghill, set among princes, and made to inherit a throne of glory?"
27344is the good work begun in thee?
27344is this blessedness thine in prospect?
27344or"_ How_ it is?"
27344ponder that solemn question,"Am I ready to die?
27344shall I gaze on these inscrutable glories, and live?
27344what couldst thou wish more than this?
27344what is there in thee to merit such love as this?
27344what thinkest thou of this Heaven?
27344where is thy sting?
27344where is thy victory?
27344wouldst thou be a star shining high and bright in the firmament of glory?--wouldst thou receive the ten- talent recompense?
28547Why do you ask me,said Simeon, on his deathbed,"what I_ like_?
28547--Are you fearful and agitated in_ the prospect of death_?
28547--Art thou a_ backslider_?
28547--Art thou beaten down with some heavy_ trial_?
28547--Is it some crushing trial, or overwhelming grief?
28547--does the thought ever present itself,"What can I do for this great Being who hath done so much for me?"
28547Ah?
28547And can we wonder at such language?
28547And if the foretaste of this rest be precious, what must be the glorious consummation?
28547And shall I be afraid of a world already conquered?
28547And what, then, should your attitude be?
28547And who are those who can claim the blessedness spoken of under this wondrous imagery?
28547And who has ever repented of that joyful servitude?
28547And who is it that speaks these living"words,""What_ I_ do?"
28547And who is it that speaks this quieting word?
28547Are providences dark, or crosses heavy?
28547Are thy loins girded, and thy lights burning?
28547Are we to infer from this, that He winks at sin?
28547Are your legion sins standing as a barrier between you and a Saviour''s proffered mercy?
28547Art thou even now feeling the strength of thy corruptions, the weakness of thy graces, the presence of some outward or inward temptation?
28547Art thou ready, with Gideon, to say,"If the Lord be indeed with us, why has all this befallen us?"
28547Be not deceived or deluded with the mocker''s presumptuous challenge,"Where is the promise of His coming?"
28547Believer, art thou in trouble?
28547Believer, can you_ now_ say with some of the holy transport of the apostle,"Whom having not seen, we love?"
28547But is not this very conviction of your want an indication of a feeble longing after Christ?
28547But is there not, after all,_ one_ condition mentioned in this"word of Jesus?"
28547Can the same be said of Satan, or sin?
28547Canst thou say with a joyful heart,"O Lord, truly I am Thy servant?"
28547Didst thou once run well?
28547Do I look to the future?
28547Do dark providences and severe afflictions seem to belie the truth and reality of this gracious assurance?
28547Does the Christian''s path lie all the way through Beulah?
28547Does the word, the look, of a suffering child get the eye and the heart of an_ earthly_ father?
28547Dost thou know the blessedness of a vital and living union with a living, life- giving Saviour?
28547Gracious"word"of a gracious Saviour, on which the soul may confidingly repose, and be at peace for ever?
28547Has His word of promise ever proved false?
28547Has His yoke been too grievous?
28547Has bereavement severed earthly ties?
28547Has the grave made forced estrangements,--sundered the closest links of earthly affection?
28547Has thine own guilty apostacy alienated and estranged thee from that face which was once all love, and that service which was once all delight?
28547Have thy tears been unalleviated-- thy sorrows unsolaced-- thy temptations above that thou wert able to bear?
28547Have we"known and believed this love of God?"
28547He led the children of Israel of old out of Egypt to their promised kingdom,--how?
28547How different from other"sons of consolation?"
28547How does He quiet their fears and misgivings?
28547How much more tender is Jesus than the tenderest of earthly friends?
28547Is it a seducing world-- a wandering, wayward heart?
28547Is it"keeping( literally,''_ garrisoning_ as in a citadel'') your heart?"
28547Is it_ bereavement_?
28547Is it_ death_?
28547Is it_ sickness_?
28547Is the thought of thy sins-- the guilty past-- coming up in terrible memorial before thee, almost tempting thee to give way to hopeless despondency?
28547Is there much of uncertainty and mystery hanging over it?
28547Is this thine attitude--"_looking unto Jesus_?"
28547It is He who died for us?
28547Let this last"word"of thy Lord''s send thee to thy knees with the question,--"Am I indeed a servant of Christ?"
28547Long going about"seeking rest and finding none,"does this"word"sound like music in thine ears--"_Come unto Me_?"
28547My soul, is there aught that is disturbing thy peace?
28547On whom does He lavish this unutterable affection?
28547Reader, do you discredit the reality of this gracious offer?
28547Reader, do you know the blessedness of confiding your every want and every care-- your every sorrow and every cross-- into the ear of the Saviour?
28547Reader, do you realize your privilege-- living under the dispensation of the Spirit?
28547Reader, hast thou attained any of this heart- purity and heart- preparation?
28547Reader, hast thou found this blessed repose in the blood and work of Immanuel?
28547Reader, is_ Satan_ assailing thee with tormenting fears?
28547Shall we refuse to love Him more in return, who hath_ first_ loved, and so_ loved us_?
28547The lowly Jewish women feared not; why?
28547To- morrow, He is_ gone_; and the bereft spirit is led to interrogate itself in plaintive sorrow,--"Where is now thy God?"
28547Tried believer, has He ever failed thee?
28547What a heaping together of similar tender"words"with that which is here addressed to us?
28547What are they?
28547What peace is this?
28547Where can a child be safer or better than in a father''s hand?
28547Where can the believer be better than in the hands of his God?
28547Who can tell what muffled and disguised"needs be"there may lurk under these world- tribulations?
28547Why"no separation?"
28547Why?
28547Why?
28547Why?
28547Would Satan try to teach thee so?
28547_ It is the Spirit''s unfolding of Jesus_--glorifying_ Him_ in eyes that before saw in Him no beauty?
28547are you a fruit- bearer in your Lord''s vineyard?
28547are you ready to faint under your tribulations?
28547art thou solitary and desolate?
28547art thou troubled and tempted?
28547canst thou subscribe to these closing words of this gracious utterance?
28547do you know this peace which passeth understanding?
28547dost thou know this blessed servitude?
28547has wave after wave been rolling in upon thee?
28547hath the Lord forgotten to be gracious?
28547have thy fondest schemes been blown upon-- thy fairest blossoms been withered in the bud?
28547instead of thus being as weaned children, how apt are we to exercise ourselves in matters too high for us?
28547is this thine attitude, as the expectant of thy Lord''s appearing?
28547is thy life now"hid with Christ in God?"
28547rather canst thou not testify,"The word of the Lord is tried;"I cast my burden upon Him, and He"sustained me?"
37292Children,He asks,"have ye any meat?"
37292--_Selected._= April 15th.=_ Could ye not watch with me one hour?
37292--_Selected._= December 11th.=_ What is your life?
3729210._ Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame?
3729210._ Why was this?
3729213._ Why?
3729214, 23._ Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character?
3729214._ O my soul, is not this enough?
3729218._ Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him_ now_?
3729218._ Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now?
372922._ And how is that to be done?
372922._ Dost thou want nothing?
372922._ Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness?
3729226._ What is thy_ season_ this morning?
3729227._ Unbelief says,"How can such and such things be?"
3729228._ Is not God always acting thus?
3729229._"Who is thy neighbor?"
372924._ Are you where God would have you be?
372924._ Was the work of the Master indeed done?
372929._ Art thou hiding thyself away from Him who would send thee forth to do His own blessed work in His own way?
37292Am I progressing in it?
37292And have we no golden bells?
37292And have we no ornaments?
37292And he cried out from the steeple:"Where art thou, Lord?"
37292And where are they not set?
37292And wherefore does God act thus?
37292Are our_ public_ duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the world, finely tempered and hallowed by a_ secret_ walk with God?
37292Are there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as they are now?
37292Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection?
37292Are we being embraced by the world by its honors, its pleasures, its applause?
37292Are we compromising with the enemies of God?
37292Art thou remembering thy double parentage, and therefore thy double duty?
37292Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside?
37292But let the song of the bird cease, and the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing?
37292By bearing"leaves,"--a_ profession_ of love for Him?
37292By bearing_ some_ fruit?
37292Canst thou meet in contact with the sinful and be thyself undefiled?
37292Canst thou touch the vile and polluted ones of earth and retain thy garments pure?
37292Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of men?
37292Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures?
37292Did you lose Christ by sin?
37292Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy?
37292Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory?
37292Do not little strokes fell lofty oaks?
37292Do not the little foxes spoil the grapes?
37292Do we not need the new sense of Christ''s presence in our hearts and the joys of the Holy Ghost?
37292Do you not see it dotted with ten thousand blessings in disguise?
37292Do you want to speak for Jesus to those around you?
37292Does not that voice come to us?
37292Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the united Trinity?
37292Doth not the tiny coral insect build a rock which wrecks a navy?
37292Has not Infinite Love encircled every event with its everlasting arms, and gilded every cloud with its merciful lining?
37292Has your life helped you to do that?
37292Hast thou no mercy to ask of God?
37292Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer?
37292Have you made up your mind that you will follow your Master everywhere else, save when he ascends the path that leads to the cross?
37292How are the two to be connected?
37292How can He go till He has healed the Magdalene''s broken heart?
37292How can this be done?
37292How was this?
37292If the world were to follow us from its busy thoroughfares, would it trace us to our family altars and our closet devotions?
37292If we often require the sharp blasts of trial to develop our graces, do we not also need the warm south breezes of His mercy?
37292Is Christ born in thee?
37292Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds?
37292Is it adding joy to other men''s lives?
37292Is it not a poison?
37292Is it not written of the Son of Man that"as He_ prayed_ the fashion of His countenance was altered"?
37292Is it the season of drought?
37292Is not this the miracle of cleansing which our spirits need in such a world as this?
37292Is so commonplace a scene as the life of the family circle fit to be a temple for the service of God?
37292Is so narrow a sphere worthy to be the object of faith?
37292Is that a reason why you should avoid or not undertake the duty?
37292Is that your religion?
37292Is the King''s image visibly, permanently, stamped upon us?
37292Is there no holy of holies where thou canst catch a glow of impulse that will make thee strong?
37292Is there no secret pavilion into which thou canst go and warm thyself?
37292Is there not work waiting for us-- work that no one else can do-- work, too, that the Master has promised to help us perform?
37292Is thy life like that manger-- precious as a casket, because of what it holds?
37292Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
37292Let us, then, take all our perplexities to Him and say,"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
37292May we not find a great truth in the very position in which God placed His chosen people?
37292McLaren._= January 27th.=_ Are there not twelve hours in the day?
37292My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin?
37292Now the question is this-- How can these two be reconciled?
37292O my soul, wouldst thou have thy life glorified, beautified, transfigured to the eyes of men?
37292Of what use is a"seal"if it can not be seen?
37292Oh, has not Jesus stood at your side when you knew it not?
37292Or shall the Son of Righteousness, when He appears, find us waiting, as that painter waited, looking and longing for the first gleam of day?
37292Shall He come and find that we still sleep?
37292Sin, a little thing?
37292Sin, a little thing?
37292Sin, a_ little_ thing?
37292The ark was a great undertaking, but what was it undertaken for?
37292They are compelled to bear the cross, but how does it come?
37292Was not its heaviest task yet to come?
37292Was, then, my divine command a delusion?
37292What are you building inside it?
37292What does this teach us?
37292What doubt is there that will not be slain by this two- edged sword?
37292What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God''s covenant?
37292What is our pen doing?
37292What kind of a structure will be disclosed when the scaffolding is knocked away?
37292What, then, of the majesty all about us, heights, and depths, and wonders?
37292Who knows its deadliness?
37292Why did He say that His work was done?
37292Why dost thou not retire oftener with thyself?
37292Will I help to bear His cross up the Via Dolorosa?
37292Will I love Him in His own night?
37292Will I stand in God''s house by night?
37292Will I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane?
37292Will not continual droppings wear away stones?
37292Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power?
37292You ask,"What can I do?"
37292You have for your security His exceeding great and precious promises, and may say with the psalmist,"Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
37292and why art thou disquieted within me?
37292but would we dally, go back?
37292have not I sent thee?
37292that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
37292v. 5._ Is it not one of the difficulties of church work that we have more officers than men?
37292ye who sigh and languish, and mourn your lack of power, Heed ye this gentle whisper,"Could ye not watch one hour?"
14849And is mine one?
14849''Twas doing nothing was his curse-- Is there a vice can plague us worse?
14849A common friendship-- who talks of a common friendship?
14849A useless flint o''er which the waters flow?
14849All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty: What further may be sought for or declared?
14849All the world cries,"Where is the man who will save us?"
14849Am I wrong to be always so happy?
14849And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?
14849And do our loves all perish with our frames?
14849And dost thou hear the word ere it be spoken, And apprehend love''s presence by its power?
14849And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
14849And it is n''t the fact that you''re hurt that counts, But only-- how did you take it?
14849And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more noble to repay?
14849And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
14849And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?
14849And thou sayest, What doth God know?
14849And what of that?
14849And where are thy playmates now, O man of sober brow?
14849And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
14849And who will walk a mile with me Along life''s weary way?
14849And why art thou disquieted within me?
14849Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
14849Are not ye of much more value than they?
14849Are the stars too distant?
14849Are you in earnest?
14849Art little?
14849At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse?
14849But he is in one mind, and who can turn him?
14849But the little daughter whispered, As she took his icy hand,"Is n''t God upon the ocean, Just the same as on the land?"
14849But what if I fail of my purpose here?
14849But whoso hath the world''s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
14849Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs?
14849Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14849Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee?
14849Can you add to that line That he lived for it too?
14849Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of the boughs shall be?
14849Didst fancy life was spent on beds of ease, Fluttering the rose- leaves scattered by the breeze?
14849Didst fondly dream the sun would never set?
14849Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?
14849Dost fear to lose thy way?
14849Doth God exact day labor, light denied?
14849Exceeding peace made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said,"What writest thou?"
14849Feeling the way-- and if the way is cold, What matter?
14849For doth not that rightly seem to be lost which is given to one ungrateful?
14849For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
14849George W. F. Hegel born 1770. Who are thy playmates, boy?
14849God will not seek thy race, Nor will he ask thy birth; Alone he will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth?
14849Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
14849Have we not darkened and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
14849Have we not groveled here long enough eating and drinking like mere brutes?
14849Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
14849Have you an ancient wound?
14849Having eyes, see ye not?
14849He said:"My child, do you yield?
14849He went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
14849How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
14849How many smiles?--a score?
14849How to constitute oneself a man?
14849I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?
14849If a man die, shall he live again?
14849If heard aright It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
14849If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?
14849In the hour of distress and misery the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is your want?
14849Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
14849Is life a noxious weed which whirlwinds sow?
14849Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
14849Is n''t it interesting to get blamed for everything?
14849Is not God in the height of heaven?
14849Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
14849It is not worth the keeping: let it go: But shall it?
14849Josephine born 1763 Could we by a wish Have what we will and get the future now, Would we wish aught done undone in the past?
14849Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God?
14849Look full into thy spirit''s self, The world of mystery scan; What if thy way to faith in God Should lie through faith in man?
14849Loved the wild rose, and left it on the stalk?
14849NOVEMBER Who said November''s face was grim?
14849O God, can I not save One from the pitiless wave?
14849Say, dost thou understand the whispered token, The promise breathed from every leaf and flower?
14849Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
14849Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights at my side, In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
14849Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar as me?
14849Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
14849Shall days spring up as wild vines grow, Unheeding where they climb or cling?
14849Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
14849Shall we have ears on the stretch for the footfalls of sorrow that never come, but be deaf to the whirr of the wings of happiness that fill all space?
14849Summer and flowers are far away; Gloomy old Winter is king to- day; Buds will not blow, and sun will not shine: What shall I do for a valentine?
14849Temptation sharp?
14849The great Gods pass through the great Time- hall; Who can see?
14849Then why, my soul, dost thou complain?
14849Then why, my soul, dost thou complain?
14849There is sunshine without and within me, and how should I mope or be sad?
14849Though you have but a little room, do you fancy that God is not there, too, and it is impossible to live therein a life that shall be somewhat lofty?
14849Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?
14849Unarmed faced danger with a heart of trust?
14849Was it hard for him?
14849Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside?
14849Was the trial sore?
14849Well, what of that?
14849Well, what of that?
14849What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
14849What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a single ray of hope?
14849What does your anxiety do?
14849What have you done with your soul, my friend?
14849What if no bird through the pearl rain is soaring?
14849What if no blossom looks upward adoring?
14849What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
14849What is the essence and life of character?
14849What is your life?
14849What shall we do with it?
14849What though to- night wrecks you and me If so to- morrow saves?
14849What would be the use of immortality for a person who can not use well half an hour?
14849What''s hallowed ground?
14849When I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of high genius, the first question I ask about him is always-- Does he work?
14849When the heart overflows with gratitude or with other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance?
14849Whence comest thou?"
14849Where else can we live?
14849Who is the happiest person?
14849Who is wise and understanding among you?
14849Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?
14849Who said her voice was harsh and sad?
14849Who stands ready to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor?
14849Who would fail, for a pause too early?
14849Who would fail, for one step withholden?
14849Who would fail, for one word unsaid?
14849Who would not rather have a right to immortality than to be immortal without a right to be?
14849Whose heart hath ne''er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
14849Why are we so glad to talk and take our turns to prattle, when so rarely we get back to the stronghold of our silence with an unwounded conscience?
14849Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
14849Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
14849Why comest thou?"
14849Why drooping seek the dark recess?
14849Why drooping seek the dark recess?
14849Why, why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasures slipped away?
14849Will ye leave the flowers for the crown?"
14849are they thine, When round thy brow the wreaths of glory shine; While rapture gazes on thy radiant way,''Midst the bright realms of clear mental day?
14849each a space Of some few yards before his face; Does that the whole wide plan explain?
14849little loveliest lady mine, What shall I send for your valentine?
14849what do we see?
14849when the eve is cool?
27852Mother,asked a child,"since nothing is ever lost, where do all our thoughts go?"
27852You are never out of temper,was once said to a woman well known to be much tried at home;"is it that you do not feel the injustice, the annoyances?"
27852***** Is_ Passionately_ the word you long for?
27852***** Then if we_ are_ slighted, misunderstood, maligned, or persecuted, what does it matter?
27852***** WHAT WILL BE MY CROSS TO- DAY?
27852***** Why weep, my child?
27852*****_ Hast thou no favors to ask of Me?_ Give Me, if thou wilt, a list of all thy desires, all the wants of thy soul.
27852*****_ Hast thou no interests which occupy thy mind?_ Tell Me of them all.... Of thy vocation.
27852--"You have, then, some special balm?"
27852A disappointment?
27852A fresh rending of the heart?
27852After all... these little troubles, looked at calmly, what are they?
27852Am_ I_ the type of all that is beautiful and right?
27852And for Me hast thou no ardor?
27852And how do you prove to Him your love?
27852And why not?
27852Are there around thee those seemingly less devout than formerly, whose coldness or indifference have estranged thee from them without real cause?...
27852Are there many who try to be of some little help or comfort to the souls with whom they are brought in contact through life?
27852Are they not very much to be pitied?
27852Are those around you wicked?
27852Are you discouraged?
27852Are you full of peace?
27852Are you tempted?
27852BENEATH THE EYE OF GOD, GOD ONLY As you read these words, are you not conscious of an inward feeling of peace and quietness?
27852Beneath GOD''S protecting Hand, is it possible that you can be sorrowful, fearful, unhappy?
27852But is not this a worry, a continual torment?
27852Can you not hear GOD''S Voice speaking to you?
27852Did JESUS CHRIST hesitate to die for you?
27852Do we help him, unseen, towards that act of charity, humiliation, or self- renunciation?
27852Do we pray to GOD that this soul may become humble, pure, devoted?
27852Do we take as much pains to procure him the little devotional book that will really help him, as we should to obtain a transient pleasure?
27852Do you believe harm was intended?
27852Do you know what you have gained?
27852Do you long at each Communion to receive the grace bestowed by CHRIST that shall little by little fit you for heaven hereafter?
27852Do you not feel moved, as if your whole being in these words went forth to GOD, offering to Him life itself?
27852Do you not feel something soothing and consoling in these thoughts?
27852Do you wish to live at peace with all the world?
27852Do your duty as well as you can, as you understand it, as it is given to you; say sometimes to GOD,"My Master, art Thou satisfied with me?"
27852Does it seem too hard for you?
27852Does not GOD love us?
27852Does not this simple thought explain the reason that there is often so little result from our frequent Communions?
27852Does the future in its turn seem to frighten me?
27852Does the past sometimes rise up to trouble me with the thought of the many years spent without GOD?
27852Dost thou not desire to do some good to the souls of those thou lovest, but who are forgetful of Me?
27852During the week has not the heart been wearied with petty strife and discontent, interests marred, bitter words?
27852Each has a mission to fulfil; and as it comes from GOD, why not let it be accomplished in peace?
27852For what reason?
27852Has not GOD promised His pardon for His blessed SON''S sake, to all who truly repent and unfeignedly believe His Holy Gospel?
27852Have I made a full avowal and entire submission?
27852Have I more faith in GOD, and more calmness and resignation in all the events of life?
27852Have I not always opportunity to give?
27852Have we courage not to spare the soul the trial that we know will purify?
27852Have you any further doubts?
27852Have you fallen?
27852Have you reckoned the number of minutes that have elapsed since your birth?
27852He is with you, and to retain Him close, Who is all Purity, will you not be more modest in your behavior?
27852He says:_ Continue another half- hour the work that wearies thee_; and you would stop?
27852He says:_ Do not that_; and you do it?
27852He says:_ Let us tread together the path of obedience_; and you answer: No?
27852Humiliation?
27852I smile at the foolish fancies of my imagination; is not my future in GOD''S Hands?
27852If so, is it not the greater merit?
27852If your duty seems almost_ impossible_ to fulfil, ask yourself,"Is this GOD''S Will for me?"
27852Is all this_ nothing_?
27852Is it Thy Will that lonely and sorrowful I am left on earth, while those I loved have gone to dwell near Thee above?
27852Is it not absurd to think that because another acts and thinks differently to myself, he must needs be wrong?
27852Is not this thought one to make you tremble?
27852Is there not a thought in this that should make us reflect?
27852Listen to the story of a simple shepherd, given in his own words:"I forget now who it was that once said to me,''Jean Baptiste, you are very poor?''
27852Make them the subject of our morning prayers, and say to ourselves, Here is my daily cross, do I accept willingly?
27852My child, tell Me of all thy weariness_: who has grieved thee?
27852My friend, do you know why the work you accomplish fails either to give pleasure to yourself or others?
27852Not to bestow thine affection on one who is not devout, and whose presence steals the peace from thy soul?
27852One more solemn thought: How old are you?
27852Poor child, why do you tell a flower the thought that troubles you?
27852Provocation?
27852SATURDAY EARNESTNESS You love GOD, do you not, dear one, whom GOD surrounds with so much affection?
27852Shall I see myself misjudged, falsely suspected, despised?
27852Sufferings?
27852THE POWER OF AN ACT OF LOVE TOWARDS GOD Have you ever reflected upon this?
27852The thought of GOD is never wearisome; why not always cherish it?
27852Then to whom can I speak of Thee this day?
27852Then, why not shake off all this, that only chills affection?
27852To be constantly employed, and never asking,"What shall I do?"
27852To spare them trouble, we sacrifice our own ease and enjoyment.... Oh, that is all very beautiful, very right; but what should we do for the soul?
27852To whom do you owe all this?
27852What counsels can I give?
27852What does it signify if some unexpected command upsets all my previous plans?
27852What dost thou desire?
27852What dost thou think?
27852What is so often the one thing wanting to some devout person devoted to doing good?
27852What matters the tone or the harshness of the order?
27852What moments may I seize, in which, without wounding the feelings, or parading my zeal, I may be allowed to speak a few words of piety?
27852What must I suffer, LORD?
27852What wilt Thou send me to- day?
27852What wouldst thou this day, My child?...
27852When have I ever been more_ zealous in labor_ than those days when I had fulfilled all my religious duties?
27852When have I felt_ more free, more happy_, than when having fulfilled all the duties of my social position?
27852When more_ loving and devoted_ than on the days of my Communions?
27852Which of us have not felt the same?
27852Who can describe all the joy, strength, and consolation it reveals?
27852Who is anxious for a beloved one''s eternal welfare?
27852Whom wouldst thou have to help thee?
27852Why be anxious about the future?
27852Why cause any one pain?
27852Why imagine evil intentions against yourself?
27852Why need I be disquieted?
27852Why not prepare the heart, even as we do the body?
27852Will you, receiving thus the GOD of_ Peace_ within, have for those around you kind words that shall fill them with calmness, resignation, and peace?
27852Wilt thou go now and be loving and forbearing towards one who has vexed thee?...
27852Would you be at peace with your conscience?
27852Would you become holy?
27852Would you call it_ torture_ or_ constraint_, the energy with which you shatter some poisoned cup you were almost enticed to drink?
27852Would you live peaceably with the members of your family, above all with those who exercise a certain control of you?
27852Would your mother have given you a bitter dose merely for the sake of causing you suffering?
27852Wouldst thou give pleasure to thy mother, thy family, those in authority over thee?
27852_ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee?
27852_ Art thou fearful of the future?_ Is there in thy heart that vague dread that thou canst not define, but which nevertheless torments thee?
27852_ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination?
27852_ Art thou resolved to avoid all occasions of sin?_ To renounce that which tempts thee; never again to open the book that excites thine imagination?
27852_ Hast thou no promises to make to Me?_ I can read thy heart; thou knowest it; thou mayst deceive man, but thou canst never deceive God.
27852_ Leave my friend always at liberty to think and act for himself in matters of little importance._ Why compel him to think and act with me?
27852am I better?
27852am I happier?
27852and am I not willing to fulfil whatever I am advised in GOD''S Name to do for the future?
27852can I never recall them?
27852can not you see how the thought troubles and disquiets you?
27852have you no mother?
27852have you not GOD to prepare it for you, as tenderly as eighteen years ago your mother prepared your cradle?
27852how can those live peacefully who never pray?
27852however heavy may be the burden you have to bear, does it not at once become light beneath the gaze of that FATHER''S eye?
27852if I try to please and imitate Thee thus, wilt Thou indeed bless me?
27852is it because this word does not please you?
27852no doubt the shame and grief are sharp and keen, but why need they disturb my peace of mind?
27852then what more can I do, good angel, thus addressing me, what can I do to show my love to GOD?
27852to thank?
27852treated thee with contempt?
27852what dost Thou require of me to- day?
27852what matters then ingratitude, forgetfulness, contempt, and scorn?
27852what wouldst thou do for them?
27852when He says:_ Bear this, I am here to aid thee_; you will refuse?
27852who can tell all that passes between the soul and its GOD?
27852why always such seeking for some one to_ see_ me, to_ understand_,_ appreciate_,_ praise_ me?
27852wounded thy self- love?
20711And why not a sudden death, Sir John? 20711 And you ca n''t help being a little fond of him still?"
20711But, Master Yeo, a sudden death?
20711Can you tell me, my pastor, what part of God''s likeness clings to a man longest and closest and best? 20711 Eh?
20711How can we become One? 20711 How do ye expect,"said Sandy,"ever to be happy, or strong, or a man at a'', as long as ye go on only looking to enjoy yersel--_yersel_?
20711How then?
20711Master,said St. John,"we saw one casting out devils in Thy name, and he followeth not us; wilt Thou that we forbid him?
20711Most worshipful sir, you surely would not wish God_ not_ to have mercy on his soul?
20711My welfare? 20711 No-- Eh?
20711Then, my dear sir, if_ you_ feel for him still, in spite of all his faults, how do you know that God may not feel for him in spite of all his faults? 20711 What better can the Lord do for a man, than take him home when he has done his work?"
20711And does not love teach us two things?
20711And even now, in fasting and mortification, am I not sorrowing for my sin and for its dreary chastisement?
20711And how did He keep it?
20711And how_ deep_ is the Cross of Christ?
20711And how_ high_ is Christ''s Cross?
20711And if God honours His servants, shall not we honour them likewise?
20711And if the heart answers impatiently,"My good?
20711And our very griefs and disappointments-- have they been useless to us?
20711And the verra idea of the modern tragedy, man conquering circumstance?
20711And what do they do, these blessed beings?
20711And what is the_ breadth_ of Christ''s Cross?
20711And what is the_ length_ of Christ''s Cross?
20711And who is He?
20711Are there no more worlds?
20711Are we more educated than were the ancient Greeks?
20711Are we selfish?
20711But Himself?
20711But after all, what is speculation to practice?
20711But shall I then despond and die?
20711But what is true rest?
20711But where?
20711But why?
20711Can there be a more glorious truth to carry out-- one which will lead us more into all love and beauty and purity in heaven and earth?
20711Can we go wrong if we keep our Passion- week as Christ kept His?
20711Christ''s cross says still, and will say to all Eternity,"Wouldst thou be good?
20711Content or Happy?
20711Dark, dark night, wilt thou never wear away?
20711Death, beautiful, wise, kind Death, when will you come and tell me what I want to know?
20711Do I mean, then, that this or any text has nothing to do with us?
20711Do we indulge our passions?
20711Do we neglect our duty?
20711Do you wish Him to be any nearer?
20711Does the age seem to you dark?
20711Else why is there a resurrection of the body?
20711Even fools long for a short life and a merry one, and shall not the Lord''s people pray for a short death and a merry one?
20711Fond of him?
20711Fools may hold fast to their scanty stock through life, and we must be very cautious in drawing them from it-- for where can they supply its place?
20711For till then they can find no explanation of the three great human questions-- Where am I?
20711For what more beautiful sight on earth than a young mother with her babe upon her knee?
20711God''s Mercy or Man''s?
20711Has our Lord Jesus Christ answered it, or has He not?
20711Has the evil one touched this alone?
20711Hatred and sin-- is not that hell itself, wherein dwells all that is opposed to God?
20711He who has never loved, what does he know?
20711Heaven and hell-- the spiritual world-- are they merely invisible places in space which may become visible hereafter?
20711How can we attain to the blessed and noble state of mind-- the mind of Christ, who must needs be about His Father''s business, which is doing good?
20711How did St. Paul look on his past life?
20711How shall I get true knowledge?
20711How shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves?
20711How was He, The blessed One, made perfect?
20711However miraculous they may seem, are they so very much more so than the daily fact of memory?
20711If a man is busy, and busy about his duty, what more does he require for time or for eternity?
20711If we say simply,"I am wretched-- I ought to be wretched;"then we shall perhaps hear a voice,"Who made thee wretched but God?
20711Is it merely a fancy that we are losing that love for Spring which among our old forefathers rose almost to worship?
20711Is it not our business to bring it back to light and joy?
20711Is it not self- conceit which makes us think the redemption of this earth the one event of eternity?
20711Is no the verra idea of the classic tragedy defined to be man conquered by circumstance?
20711Is not that a joy, a prize, which wealth can not give nor poverty take away?
20711Is that a hard word?
20711Is there a Holy One, whom I may contemplate with utter delight?
20711Is there a living God in the universe, or is there not?
20711Is there one such poor soul over whom Christ does not grieve?
20711It is but pride and self- will which says,"Give me something huge to fight and I shall enjoy that-- but why make me sweep the dust?"
20711Know ye not your God is with you, guiding with a Father''s hand?
20711Knowledge which I shall know accurately and practically too, so that I can use it in daily life, for myself and others?
20711Let me ask-- of what period of youth and manhood does it not hold true?
20711Love and righteousness-- is not that the heaven itself wherein God dwells?
20711Mackaye?"
20711Man?
20711May it not be so?
20711May not they be near us though unseen?
20711No?
20711Religion or Godliness?
20711Sacrifices to be made-- are there none now?
20711Shall we therefore be dark too?
20711That inborn delight of the young in all that is marvellous and fantastic-- has that a merely evil root?
20711Then what can He mean but thy good?"
20711There were daring deeds to be done then-- are there none now?
20711Though blind, shall we be afraid to follow?
20711To do God''s will, or merely suffer it?
20711True or False Toleration?
20711Verily, when the Son of God cometh shall He find faith in the earth?
20711What can a man do more than_ die_ for his countrymen?
20711What does God ask?
20711What does God require of us, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him?
20711What else is meant by becoming as a little child?
20711What if I had discovered that one law of the spiritual world, in which all others were contained, was Righteousness?
20711What if a man''s idea of"The Church"be somewhat too narrow for the year of grace 18--, is it no honour to him that he has such an idea at all?
20711What is Theology?
20711What is love worth that does not show itself in action?
20711What is sensuality?
20711What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism?
20711What is the sin which most destroys all men and nations?
20711What is there in this world worth having without religion?
20711What is this strange thing, without which even the true knowledge of doctrine is of no use?
20711What is true rest?
20711What matter?
20711What must I do?
20711What surely is a woman''s calling but to teach man?
20711What was Christ''s life?
20711Where Christ is they are; and, therefore, if Christ be there, may not they be there likewise?
20711Which is Love?
20711Whither am I going?
20711Who can hear it?
20711Who, save the Cause and Maker and Ruler of all things past, present, and to come?
20711Whom can I love?"
20711Why did Christ take up the cross?
20711Why expect Wisdom with love in all?
20711Why is not eternity to have action and change, yet both like God, compatible with rest and immutability?
20711Why need we suppose that heaven is to be one vast lazy retrospect?
20711Why not in you, my toiling brother?
20711Why not?
20711Why should they not feed our children''s?
20711Why speak of the God of Nature and the God of grace as two antithetical terms?
20711Why these fears?
20711Wild, wild wind, wilt thou never cease thy sighing?
20711Will there not be incident and action springing from these when the fate of this world is decided?
20711Would you be humble, daughter?
20711Wouldst thou be like God?
20711Wrongs to be redrest-- are there none now?
20711Yes, great railroads, and great railroad age, who would exchange you, with all your sins, for any other time?
20711You ask,"What is the Good?"
20711You will not see people as they seem-- as they have become, no doubt; but why?
20711and God frowning, and the devil grinning?
20711and if so, where is He?
20711and more, which does not show itself in_ passion_ in the true sense of that word: namely, in suffering?
20711and to teach him what?
20711and why does the Eucharist"preserve our body and soul to everlasting life?"
20711canna ye see it there?
20711dreary March month, is this then a time for building wearily?
20711for am I not''a part of all I see''?
20711how long before Thou come again?
20711in daring, in struggling, in grieving, in agonising, and, if need be, in dying for the object of its love?
20711is there no the heaven above them there, and the hell beneath them?
20711oh, where?
20711or are they not rather the moral world of right and wrong?
20711that righteousness, and it alone, was the beautiful, righteousness the sublime, the heavenly, the God- like-- ay, God Himself?
20711that thou hadst known-- even thou-- at least in this thy day-- the things which belong to thy peace"?
20711where art Thou?
20711why crush that voice in any heart?
20711without which either a man or a nation is poor, and blind, and wretched, and naked in soul, notwithstanding all his religion?
8534Do n''t you see,he said to her,"that by giving up your own way, you will be virtually putting a cross on the grave?
8534What is my next duty? 8534 What shall I do to gain eternal life?"
8534Who is thy neighbor?
8534''Tis enough that Thou wilt care; Why should I the burden bear?
8534''Tis true, He hath chastened thee with rods and sore afflictions; but did He ever take away His loving- kindness from thee?
85341, is our"bodies"?
8534A myriad homes,--a myriad ways,-- And God''s eye over every place?
8534Am I acting in simplicity, from a germ of the Divine life within, or am I shaping my path to obtain some immediate result of expediency?
8534Among so many, can He care?
8534And am I what I am pretending?
8534And doth not the love, the rest, the peace, the joy felt, swallow up all the bitterness and sorrow of the outward condition?
8534And how shall we know this?
8534And sound my word and thought the same?
8534And what will thy heavenly Father do but what that father did in the parable?
8534And when any special thing is repugnant to you, ask"Wouldst Thou have me do it?
8534Any cup at our home- table whose sweetness we have not fully tasted, although it might yet make of our daily bread a continual feast?
8534Appear I always what I am?
8534Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?
8534Art thou not the"Living Garment"of God?
8534As to what may befall us outwardly, in this confused state of things, shall we not trust our tender Father, and rest satisfied in His will?
8534Ask"What should I like myself, if I were hard- worked, or sick, or lonely?"
8534August 23_ Seekest thou great things for thyself?
8534Be quiet, soul: Why shouldst thou care and sadness borrow, Why sit in nameless fear and sorrow, The livelong day?
8534Be quiet, why this anxious heed About thy tangled ways?
8534Because you are forced to be outwardly inactive, do you think you, also, may not be, in your years of quiet,"about your Father''s business"?
8534Because you are not sent out yet into your labor, do you think God has ceased to remember you?
8534Believ''st thou in eternal things?
8534Bore I not helm of pride and glittering sword?
8534But how will you find good?
8534But let that love flow out upon all around you, and what could harm you?
8534But shall we be less ready for these, if any of them are His appointments for to- day?
8534But what says the Psalmist?
8534But you will go forth, and what will you find, my daughter?
8534Can special love be everywhere?
8534Can we be unsafe where He has placed us?
8534Can we walk with God in the shop, in the office, in the household, and on the street?
8534Can you not cease to regard whether you do or not, whether you be bewildered, whether you be happy?
8534December 19_ And now, Lord, what wait I for?
8534December 21_ Hast thou not known?
8534Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?
8534Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it?
8534Difficult enough, you think?
8534Do thy steps drag heavily?
8534Do we not already know that the name of the Infinite is GOOD, is GOD?
8534Do you not see that a person who truly loves is one with the Infinite Being-- cannot be uncomfortable or unhappy?
8534Does any one complain, that the best affections are transient visitors with him, and the heavenly spirit a stranger to his heart?
8534Dost thou ask when comes His hour?
8534For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple?
8534Have you ever thought seriously of the meaning of that blessing given to the peacemakers?
8534His children,--how can he make the day sweeter to them?
8534His wife,--what needs has she for help, for sympathy, that he can meet?
8534How are you to attain self- control, if you shun all occasions of practising it?
8534How can charity towards all men fail to follow, being the mere affectionateness of innocence and peace?
8534How can we come to perceive this direct leading of God?
8534How couldst thou hang upon the cross, To whom a weary hour is loss?
8534How do you know what you may lose by neglecting this duty, which you think so trifling, or the blessing which its faithful performance may bring?
8534How does our will become sanctified?
8534How shall thou bear the cross that now So dread a weight appears?
8534How shall we rest in God?
8534I looked thereon with the eye of my understanding, and thought,"What may this be?"
8534I would have you, one by one, ask yourselves, Wherein do I take up the cross daily?
8534If He appoints me to wait in- doors to- day, am I to be annoyed because I am not to work out- of- doors?
8534If He appoints me to work there, shall I lament that I am not to work here?
8534If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
8534If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldest, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
8534If we can not work out the will of God where God has placed us, then why has He placed us there?
8534If we forget them not, shall they not remember us with God?
8534If we have a cold heart towards a servant or a friend, why should we wonder if we have no fervor towards God?
8534In"pastures green"?
8534Is it Thy will that I should be in a public or a private condition, dwell here, or be banished, be poor or rich?
8534Is it not His own precious treasure, and a small thing with Him to forgive thee thy trespasses, if thou believe in Him?
8534Is it possible for any of us in these modern days to so live that we may walk with God?
8534Is it want of strength?
8534Is not such self- choosing a greater fault than those into which you fear to fall?
8534Is there nothing you know you ought not to do?
8534Is there nothing you neglect?
8534Is this, indeed, the tone and tenor of your prayers?
8534Is thy burden hard and heavy?
8534Is thy cruse of comfort wasting?
8534July 4_ Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded?
8534July 7_ The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
8534June 10_ Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
8534June 23_ Why art than cast down, O my soul?
8534June 8_ Who hath despised the day of small things_?
8534Know I what way my course is bending?
8534Let us lift up our hearts and ask,"Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?"
8534May 5_ If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
8534Never delay To do the duty which the hour brings, Whether it be in great or smaller things; For who doth know What he shall do the coming day?
8534November 30_ Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
8534November 9_ Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above?
8534Now, Lord, what wait I for?
8534O God, what offering shall I give To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies?
8534O Heavens, is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
8534O child, hast thou fallen?
8534October 17_ Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
8534Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear The burden of to- morrow?
8534Oh, how shall I, most gracious Lord, This mark of true perfection find?
8534Oh, my friend, look not_ out_ at what stands in the way; what if it look dreadfully as a lion, is not the Lord stronger than the mountains of prey?
8534Oh, my soul, why art thou vexed?
8534Or how the thorns and scourging brook, Who shrinkest from a scornful look?
8534September 15_ Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?
8534September 30_ Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle?
8534Shall anything hurt us?
8534Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives?
8534Shall they forget us because they are"made perfect"?
8534Shall they love us the less because they now have power to love us more?
8534So here hath been dawning another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
8534So, whether on the hill- tops high and fair I dwell, or in the sunless valleys, where The shadows lie, what matter?
8534Still heavy is thy heart?
8534Still sink thy spirits down?
8534Supposing that you were never to be set free from such trials, what would you do?
8534Take Thy hand, and fears grow still; Behold Thy face, and doubts remove; Who would not yield his wavering will To perfect Truth and boundless Love?
8534That Thy great love should shelter me, And guide my steps so tenderly Through every changing day?
8534Thou knowest what is best; And who but Thee, O God, hath power to know?
8534To whom?
8534Unhappy am I, because this has happened to me?
8534Was I not girded for the battle- field?
8534What can come amiss to a soul which is so in accord with God?
8534What can cross your will, when it is one with His will, on which all creation hangs, round which all things revolve?
8534What can harm thee, when all must first touch God, within whom thou hast enclosed thyself?
8534What can make so much as one jarring tone in all its harmony?
8534What channel needs our faith, except the eyes?
8534What duties have I left undone?
8534What had she done?
8534What have I done that''s worth the doing?
8534What have I learnt where''er I''ve been, From all I''ve heard, from all I''ve seen?
8534What have I sought that I should shun?
8534What heart can comprehend Thy name, Or, searching, find Thee out?
8534What if the wicked nature, which is as a sea casting out mire and dirt, rage against thee?
8534What is Nature?
8534What is fulness of joy but_ peace_?
8534What is it that makes us unable to persevere?
8534What is the thing that lies nearest to me?"
8534What know I more that''s worth the knowing?
8534What matter how miserable one is, if one can do that?
8534What shall be our reward for loving our neighbor as ourselves in this life?
8534What was the secret of such a one''s power?
8534When did we ever set ourselves sincerely to any work according to the will of God, and fail for want of strength?
8534When the shore is gained, who will heed the toil and the storm?
8534When thou hast thanked thy God For every blessing sent, What time will then remain For murmurs or lament?
8534Where then is_ our_ God?
8534Which of us feels or knows that he wants peace?
8534Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil?
8534Who hath created these things-- that bringeth out their host by number?
8534Why go about to grieve and to despair?
8534Why is it that we are so busy with the future?
8534Why make a real calamity of it by resistance?
8534Why seek it afar forever, When it can not be lifted away?
8534Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul?
8534Why should I vex myself because another hath vexed me?
8534Why should we desire to meet difficulties prematurely, when we have neither strength nor light as yet provided for them?
8534Why shouldst them fill to- day with sorrow About to- morrow, My heart?
8534Why weep now through thy Future''s eyes, and bear In vain to- day to- morrow''s load of care?"
8534Will not the same love which prompts you to give a good, prompt you to keep back an evil, thing?
8534Will then this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, secure against inconsiderate opinions and falsehood?
8534Would you know the blessing of all blessings?
8534Wouldst Thou have me serve Thee in the lowest ministries of Thy house?
8534You are surprised at your imperfections-- why?
8534_ There be many that say, Who will show us any good?
8534_ Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?
8534_ Who can understand his errors?
8534_ Who_ is it that is your shepherd?
8534_ Why are ye so fearful?
8534_ Why dost thou judge thy brother?
8534and why art thou disquieted in me?
8534and why art thou disquieted within me?
8534hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
8534how many of_ you_ are content with_ such_ faithfulness as this on the part of your heavenly Father?
8534if a little pain overcomes us, how could we endure a cross?
8534in what sorrow lose yourself in His"more exceeding"joy?
8534my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?"
8534or did His faithfulness ever fail in the sorest, blackest, thickest, darkest night that ever befell thee?
8534or did any abide in His fear, and was forsaken?
8534what am I, that all Thy mercies sweet like sunlight fall So constant o''er my way?
8534whether we have slavish fears, or are possessed of that perfect love which casteth out all fear that hath torment?
8534who shall dwell in Thy holy hill?
8534why by passing clouds oppressed, Should vexing thoughts distract thy breast?
40482Ca n''t you?
40482Dreamer of dreams? 40482 Good morning,"said the friend,"and how is John Quincy Adams today?"
40482My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
40482Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?
40482Oh, why,said a young professional man, whom Professor Coe quotes,"why did my parents try to equip me with a doctrinal system in childhood?
40482Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
40482What will_ you_ do it with?
40482Why was there ever anything at all?
40482Why?
40482[ 4] Is one of these answers more true than the other? 40482 ''How long were you looking into the water?'' 40482 15:13.== For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? 40482 5:8);If_ God_ is for us, who is against us?"
4048263:9);"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
40482= And what shall I more say?
40482= But what think ye?
40482= Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
40482= Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?
40482= Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God?
40482="My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show?
40482An outgrown custom of the early Church does not now seem so strange as it did a generation ago:= Is any among you suffering?
40482And his sisters, are they not all with us?
40482And if you say, Saved from Hell-- what is Hell but the final subjugation of the soul to such sins as you now are cherishing?
40482And the religious man answers: What world is this I am to bow before?
40482And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins?
40482And when one turns to the supreme Character, could the dark background be eliminated and still leave Him?
40482And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in?
40482And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40482And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
40482And why are ye anxious concerning raiment?
40482Are not ye of much more value than they?
40482Are we asking for a perfectly happy world?
40482Ask_ now_ the question, What makes it rain?
40482Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat?
40482Browning''s bishop asks his friend:"Like you this Christianity or not?
40482But are we not also sure that it is wrong to lie and right to tell the truth?
40482But in much of the universe we do see meaning; and how can intelligence find sense where intelligence has not put sense?
40482But is Christian faith thus the child of man''s happy days?
40482But is belief in God always such a blessing as we have pictured?
40482But look at the innumerable schools of medicine-- shall one on their account decide that health is a fruitless study?
40482But prove it by the methods of a laboratory?
40482But so understanding the sea, shall the pool claim equality with it?
40482But supposing that the facts of science were all of reality and the laws of science all of truth, what sort of prayer could Carlyle have offered?
40482But who, considering our generation''s life as a whole, would call it diffident or desperate?
40482But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?
40482By what analogies?
40482By what other element in their experience could they interpret the greatness of their Lord?
40482Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him?
40482Can his faith save him?
40482Can it be that this intelligible world, readable by mind, is itself essentially mindless?
40482Can one who has seen a home be happy in a hovel?
40482Can the same spring send forth sweet water and bitter?
40482Canst Thou not visit us again?__ We hush our thoughts to silence, we school our spirits in sincerity, and here we wait.
40482Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
40482Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
40482Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?
40482Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
40482Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
40482Consider the infinite variety of taste in food-- shall we say that therefore hunger and its satisfaction is a futile question to discuss?
40482Couldst thou refrain the earth from quaking And rest thy heart on_ Me_?"
40482Cries Jeremiah from the Old Testament,"Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?
40482Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?"
40482Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
40482Do not I fill heaven and earth?"
40482For now when we face our universe of magnificent distances and regal laws has religion really suffered?
40482For what am I destined?
40482For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him?
40482For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
40482For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
40482From the time when Gideon, in a mood like that of multitudes today, cried,"Oh, my Lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us?"
40482Get warm, get food,''without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?
40482Has a flat and stationary earth proved essential to Christianity, as Protestants and Catholics alike declared?
40482Has it your vote to be so if it can?"
40482Hast thou not known?
40482He and his Hell were the nightmare of my childhood; I hated him while I still believed in him, and who could help but hate?
40482He has come appealing to our little insight with his own clear vision,"Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?"
40482His God was compassionately concerned for Africa, spoke about black folk as Hosea heard him speak concerning Israel,"How can I give thee up?
40482How am I to give thee up?
40482How am I to let thee go, O Israel?
40482How can I let thee go?"
40482How did we come by this significant knowledge that the immoral system was dispensable?
40482How reasonable and how assured shall they be?
40482How shall a man be seriously in earnest about great causes in a world like that?
40482How shall they try otherwise to describe the universe?
40482How should they name this greatness in their Lord?
40482How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
40482How then shall we turn back again and see with eyes that fear has filmed?
40482How was the world made?
40482I believe in all the Christian truths, says one; and the curious question rises, how did these beliefs of his come into his possession?
40482If the Psalmist, in an exultant mood, sang,"Jehovah is my shepherd,"he also cried,"Jehovah, why casteth thou off my soul?
40482If we turn to the prophets, we find Hosea, interpreting the beating of God''s heart:"How am I to give thee up, O Ephraim?
40482If we_ affirm_ God, then_ evil_ is a mystery, for why, we ask, should love create a world with so much pain and sin?
40482In what terms?
40482Is any among you sick?
40482Is any cheerful?
40482Is anyone in a position to deride that?
40482Is it not life at its sublimest elevation?
40482Is it not the universe which my mind knows and whose laws my intellect has grasped?
40482Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?
40482Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
40482Is man responsible for that?
40482Is not its solacing power a deceptive sleight of hand, by which our pleasing fancies and desires are made to look like truth?
40482Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
40482Is not this always the right missionary method?
40482Is not this the carpenter''s son?
40482Is one perplexed that God, who is invisible, should be pictured in the similitude of human persons?
40482Is the God of such a universe to be conceived in terms of a magnified man?
40482Is there any doubt, then, what we most believe in when we are at our best?
40482Is there not a thin veil laid over Thy Word, which is more rarified by reading, and at last wholly worn away?
40482It is high as heaven; what canst thou do?
40482It may be false, but will you wish it true?
40482Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
40482Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?
40482Met with derision by a doubter, as though his experience were no proof at all, how shall he proceed?
40482Moses cries:"Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people?
40482Music once had stirred the depths, but now our spirits tally with the scoffer''s jest,"What are you crying about with your Wagner and your Brahms?
40482O, what means this strange bewilderment, this never- ending war between our worse and better thoughts?
40482One need only read such books of his as"Can the Old Faith Live with the New?"
40482Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
40482Or who hath given understanding to the mind?
40482Out of what, then, did the Master make his apostles?
40482Plenty of folk of elevated character and admirable lives grant, sometimes impatiently, that the Christian faith is beautiful-- but is it_ so_?
40482Preachers delight to illustrate their thought of God with figures drawn from nature''s invisible energies--"Who has seen the wind?
40482Said the other, seeing how little this negation solved the problem,"Well, what_ is_ it that ai n''t?"
40482Saved from what?
40482Saved from_ what_?
40482Says Oliver Wendell Holmes,"Did you ever happen to see that most soft- spoken and velvet- handed steam- engine at the Mint?
40482Shall the practical unserviceableness of such an idea for the purpose of life, awaken no suspicion as to its truth?
40482Shall they quarrel because they do not all come alike?
40482Stevenson sings in"the saddest and the bravest song he ever wrote":"God, if this were faith?...
40482Such folk want to believe in God, but-- can they?
40482The curious"Why?"
40482The further our thought proceeds the more clear it becomes that the question is not, shall we have churches?
40482The question is rather-- By what faiths shall we live?
40482Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee?
40482There man enquires,"Canst thou by searching find out God?
40482They may not dare to say what James Thomson did, but they think it--"Who is most wretched in this dolorous place?
40482They might easily steady their hearts to endure and overcome, were only one question''s answer clear-- is there any_ sense_ in life''s suffering?
40482They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God?
40482They stand rather like unconverted Gideon, facing backwards and lamenting,"Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of?"
40482Third Week, Sixth Day= For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
40482Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me....== Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
40482To many such, were candor courteous, one would wish to say: Saved?
40482To one in perplexity about belief, this proper question therefore rises: What do we think about the Christlike character?
40482Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
40482Was such clemency an occasion for lax character?
40482Was this Thyself, and have we turned from Thee?
40482What could such a mind understand of modern science''s faith in the universal regularity of law?
40482What is a pebble?
40482What is a sunset?
40482What range and depth and quality shall they have?
40482What recourse is there in such a case?
40482What then is Apollos?
40482What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
40482What wonder that inexpressible devotion has been felt for him by all his people?
40482What wonder that the physicist acknowledged to a friend that the retort nettled him, for he did not see just how to answer it?
40482Whatever, therefore, affects_ that_ is his concern, and what is there that does not affect it?
40482When has man ever found solid knowledge in this most important realm of human possibilities, without faith as the pioneer?
40482When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?"
40482When we pray we say"Our Father"; when we seek our duty we ask,"What wilt thou have me to do?"
40482When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
40482Whence then hath this man all these things?
40482Where does the restlessness in nature have its source?
40482Where, then, have the men of faith found the immovable center of their confidence?
40482Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
40482Whether is all- God or occasional God the nobler theory?"
40482Which of the two did the will of his father?
40482Who can avoid seeing the patent contrast between the Father of Jesus and the Creator of such a world?
40482Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
40482Who does not sometimes fall into the Slough of Despond?
40482Who has seen the wind?
40482Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?
40482Whom have I in heaven but thee?
40482Why hidest thou thy face from me?"
40482Why now, and no sooner, did I see it?
40482Why, therefore, should we wonder that his disciples at their best have called Jesus divine?
40482Wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?"
40482With what accuracy his fingers travel the keys, who can tell?
40482Would not the sixteenth chapter of Romans have a similar effect on those who read it?
40482You believe in one God?
40482_ Are we to trust for our guidance the testimony of our worse or better hours?_ We have low moods; so, too, we have cellars in our houses.
40482_ But it does mean that to him reality must be fundamentally spiritual, not physical._ What other hypothesis possibly can fit the facts?
40482_ Is yours the only heart where God is to be found?
40482_ O Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, canst Thou bear to look on us conscious of our great transgression?
40482and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?
40482and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard?
40482and how shall they hear without a preacher?
40482and how shall they preach, except they be sent?
40482and what is Paul?
40482and where is the fury of the oppressor?
40482and wherein have I wearied thee?
40482and your labor for that which satisfieth not?
40482but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?"
40482but rather, since churches are inevitable, of what sort shall they be?
40482hast thou not heard?
40482is not his mother called Mary?
40482or athirst, and gave thee drink?
40482or naked, and clothed thee?
40482or who hath been his counsellor?
40482or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
40482or, What shall we drink?
40482or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
40482shall I come before him with burnt- offerings, with calves a year old?
40482when will the church to which I belong in heart rise into being?
40482will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
23241Do ye not remember the miracle of the loaves?
23241Do ye not remember the miracle of the loaves?
23241Gethsemane can I forget?
23241Has He been seen of thee also?
23241He has promised, and shall He not do it?
23241He may not need us; but does He want us?
23241How many loaves have ye?
23241I will make thee,saith the Lord,"and shall He not do it?"
23241If God be for us, who can be against us?
23241Know ye not that ye are the body?
23241Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit?
23241Lord, how oft shall I forgive? 23241 Lovest thou Me?"
23241O death, where is thy sting? 23241 Said I not unto thee that, if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?"
23241Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of Me?
23241The Lord is on my side, whom shall I fear?
23241The Lord is on my side, whom shall I fear?
23241The bruised reed--is it the impaired musical reed, that can not now emit a musical sound, and can only be thrown away?
23241Untowhat?
23241Where''s thy victory, O grave?
23241Who is he that overcometh... but he that believeth?
23241Who is made to stumble, and I burn not?
23241Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
23241_ And He made a scourge of cords._And is this"the Lamb of God"?
23241_ And the life was the light of men._And what did He not light up?
23241_ And when He rose up from His prayer_--what then?
23241_ Are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of?_They wanted to be the King''s cup- bearers; He offers them to drink of His cup.
23241_ Art thou willing_ to be made whole?
23241_ I dwell with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit._And who are the contrite?
23241_ My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?_In that agonizing cry I am led to the real heart of the atonement.
23241_ My sheep wandered... and none did seek after them._How can we seek them if we have never missed them, if we have no sense that they are lost?
23241_ Wilt Thou not revive us again?_It is the next step in the returning spring.
23241_ Your old men shall dream dreams._And what shall they dream about?
2324131- 39. Who can get between the love of Christ and me?
2324131- 39. Who else is worth naming?
23241A day is of immeasurable preciousness, for what high accomplishment may it not witness?
23241AUGUST The Ninth_ GOD''S REQUIREMENTS_"_ What doth the Lord require of thee?_"--MICAH vi.
23241AUGUST The Twenty- fifth_ IMPOTENT ENEMIES_"_ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?_"--ROMANS viii.
23241AUGUST The Twenty- seventh_ WHAT ABOUT TO- MORROW?_ JOSHUA xxiv.
23241Am I an evil leaven, like the Pharisees, or a holy leaven like the Lord?
23241Am I moving toward the time when nothing shall be particularly hallowed because all will be sanctified?
23241Am I rich in these things or pathetically poor?
23241Am I the nutriment of vice or the sustenance of virtue?
23241Am I thus concerned only with a small section of Jerusalem, or does my intercession sweep the entire city?
23241And did He shut Himself up with the Father?
23241And do I remember her perils, especially those parts of her walls where the defences are very thin, and can be easily broken through?
23241And do I sufficiently remember my own providences,"_ all the way my God has led me_"?
23241And do I sufficiently remember that I, too, am making history for my fellows who shall succeed me?
23241And doth my Lord call me one of His brethren?
23241And how about places?
23241And how can I attain unto this spiritual delight?
23241And how do we recover our lost estate?
23241And how does the Lord comfort us?
23241And how is it with me?
23241And how must he take heed?
23241And how shall we expect the sentence to finish?
23241And how will He guide us?
23241And in what shall their blessedness consist?
23241And is it not well, for thee and me, that our Lord is thus fiercely hostile to our sins?
23241And is the_ entire_ Jerusalem the subject of my supplication?
23241And what does it sing about?
23241And what if that Companion be God?
23241And what is this?
23241And what is to be the spirit of the surgeon?
23241And what shall I think of men who are contented to"search the Scriptures"and"will not come"to the Lord?
23241And what sort of meat is this?
23241And what then?
23241And what then?
23241And what when sorrow or persecution comes?
23241And what will He say to the externalist?
23241And when the red stain has soaked into the very texture of the character, and every fibre is stupefied, what can we do then?
23241And where is he to get it?
23241And who is to be the surgeon?
23241And yet what is the quality of our faith?
23241And"if God is for us, who can be against us?"
23241And( shall I reverently say it?)
23241And, therefore, everyone may apply a clinical test to his own life:"What is the character of my speech?
23241Are my ecclesiastical sympathies large enough to include"outsiders"from afar?
23241Are my foes able to maim my spirit as well as my body?
23241Are my intercessions private enclosures, intended only for the select among my friends?
23241Are the six days of the week becoming increasingly like the seventh, until people can see no difference between my Monday manners and my Sunday mood?
23241Are they spoken in faith?
23241Art thou afraid to"lift high His royal banner"?
23241Before all the doubts and hesitancies of man enable me to answer,"Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?"
23241But can I share his witness,"_ I know that my Redeemer liveth_"?
23241But how are we to love the Lord?
23241But how can we become"children of light,"holy homes of protective and saving radiance?
23241But is it not a strange thing that men can be"at ease in Zion"?
23241But is this God''s way of dealing with His people?
23241But what is a man to do who has got a perverted palate, and who calls sweet things bitter and bitter things sweet?
23241But where shall we get the love wherewith to make our enemy lovely?
23241But why"_ follow_"me?
23241Can He afford to lose a soul?
23241Can He communicate with the world through me?
23241Can I be trusted?
23241Can I confidently give thanks before I receive the gifts of God, before the dish- covers are removed?
23241Can I trust Him?
23241Can I, too, calmly and confidently claim the experience?
23241Can we think of a more beautiful figure than this--"_children of light_"?
23241Could He not have rent the heavens and sent His ministers of calamity and disasters?
23241Could He not have sent fire from heaven?
23241Could any two things be in greater contrast than a worm and an instrument with teeth?
23241Could anything be more tenderly gracious than this figure of hiding under the shadow of God''s wings?
23241Could there be a sweeter chime than the opening music of this psalm?
23241DECEMBER The Fifteenth_ WHAT IS MY TENDENCY?_"_ Whether we live, we live unto_...."--ROMANS xiv.
23241Did He use it that He might reveal its ugliness, and so banish it from human speech?
23241Did I need them?
23241Did I want them?...
23241Did they want to make Him a King?
23241Did you need it?...
23241Did you want it?"
23241Do I carry her on my heart?
23241Do I do it before I begin to live the day?
23241Do I ever open the door to anyone outside my family circle?
23241Do I exercise a sensitive and sanctified imagination, and enter somewhat into the pangs of their cravings?
23241Do I praise God for her heritage, and for her endowment of spiritual glory?
23241Do I reverently listen to the"great voice behind me"?
23241Do I share the compassion of the Lord?
23241Do I sufficiently remember the witness of history?
23241Do I"learn wisdom"from experience?
23241Do my sympathies remain confined within my cedar walls, or do they go out to God''s neglected ones in every land and clime?
23241Do they comprehend my brother''s good as well as my own?
23241Do they go forth in great expectancy?
23241Do they just contain our own families, or is China in them, and India, and"the uttermost parts of the earth"?
23241Do they win their end by making me a smaller man?
23241Does it range over mighty spaces seeking benedictions for a multitude?
23241Does my discipleship multiply His powers of expression?
23241Does my discipleship offer my Lord a limb?
23241Does that seem a weak ending to a powerful beginning?
23241For how else can we cast out evil?
23241For is there any murderer so destructive as carnality?
23241For what is the kingdom?
23241For what song can there be where there is languor and fainting?
23241Grim and full of warning, like the pillar of salt, or winsome and full of heartiness, like some"sweet Ebenezer"built by life''s way?
23241H. P. FAUNCE, D.D._ What Does Christianity Mean?
23241Has He more eyes, more ears, more hands because I am a member of His Church?
23241Has he any place at all?
23241Has that great word been spoken concerning me in the Father''s home of light?
23241Have I a calm assurance that my ruler is not caprice, and that my comings and goings are not determined by unfeeling chance?
23241Have I never preferred him, and sent my Lord to be"crucified afresh,"and"put Him to an open shame"?
23241Have I not sometimes heard the phrase--"He''s just a lump of pride"?
23241Have we been so busy with our preparations, so concerned with many things, and everybody, that we have forgotten our greatest possible Ally?
23241Here is a sentence which describes the anger of the Apostle Paul:"Who is made to stumble and I burn not?"
23241How big are they?
23241How can the Lord sit down at such a table, or make One at such a fireside?
23241How can they when the apportionment is so perverse, when everything is topsy- turvy?
23241How can we deal with glaring sin, with sin that is"scarlet,"that is"red like crimson"?
23241How can we gain this disposition of love?
23241How could it be otherwise?
23241How do I regard them?
23241How do they lose it?
23241How do we complete the sentence?
23241How does it fit me for ordinary affairs?
23241How does my life trend when it touches my brother?
23241How has it all come about?
23241How is he influenced by my example?
23241How is it with our love?
23241How is it with our prayers?
23241How much bird- music is heard in the chambers of my heart?
23241How much does anybody count?
23241How much grace can our unbelief withstand?
23241How much is it ready to spend?
23241How much pure laughter rings in my life?
23241How much will it bleed?
23241How shall we touch this lovely psalm and not bruise it?
23241How we impoverish ourselves by separating these precious gifts from their Giver?
23241How will He do it?
23241How will He let me know which path to take?
23241How, then, shall we live to- day in prospect of the eternal morrow?
23241How?
23241I am a Congregationalist; do I remember the Anglican?
23241I am an Anglican; do I remember the Quaker?
23241I dwell in England, but what about the folk on the Congo?
23241I dwell in a land of ample religious freedom, but what about Armenia?
23241I lay the coping- stone, but who turned the first sod?
23241I lead the water into new ministries, but who first dug the well?
23241I said to the good man who lived in it,"Can you see the castle?"
23241I wonder if I have the manner of a king''s son?
23241I wonder if there is anything in my very"walk"which indicates distinguished lineage and royal blood?
23241I wonder if this word"dogs"was my Saviour''s word, or had He picked it up from the disciples that He might cast it away again for ever?
23241I yearn for"the flesh- pots,""He sends me manna,""Was there ever kindest shepherd half so gentle, half so sweet?"
23241If one golden promise had turned out to be counterfeit, how then?
23241If the sun be on my side, why should I be dismayed at any icy obstacle that may rear itself in my way?
23241If two men are at the wheel with opposing notions of direction and destiny, how will it fare with the boat?
23241In the morning do I thank my God for what I am about to receive?
23241In what direction are we living?
23241In what way does he move because of the impact of my example?
23241Is God on the field, taking sides with us?
23241Is He therefore looking for thee and me?
23241Is He therefore looking for thee or me?
23241Is He therefore seeking thee or me?
23241Is it a thing of the tent or of the sky?
23241Is it all to me as though it had never been, or is it part of the store of counsel by which I shape and guide my life?
23241Is it hallowed with thy Lord''s approval and seal?
23241Is it incited by our own wrongs or by the wrongs of another?
23241Is it set on fire by self- indulgence or by a noble sympathy?
23241Is mine?
23241Is not this"consuming fire"the friend of my soul?
23241Is the note of praise to be found in the streets of my soul?
23241Is there any reasonable ground for assuming that they can accomplish anything?
23241Is there not therefore something half- ironical in our Saviour''s use of the word?
23241Is this my way?
23241Is thy place empty?
23241JULY The Eighth_ WHAT MANNER OF MAN?_ MATTHEW xi.
23241JUNE The Fifteenth_ THE KING''S GUESTS_"_ Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?_"--PSALM xxiv.
23241MAY The Fifteenth_ GOD IS WIDE- AWAKE_"_ Jeremiah, what seest thou?
23241May I not do this for my Lord?
23241May I not make a place for Him in all my affairs-- my choices, my pleasures, my times of business, my season of rest?
23241May we reverently wonder if it was a season of temptation?
23241My soul, art thou secretly ashamed of thy Lord?
23241O grave, where is thy victory?"
23241On what quiet farm is the coming deliverer now labouring?
23241Or am I altogether depending upon another man''s sight, and are my own eyes unillumined?
23241Or am I in the pay of the evil one?
23241Or am I like a vagrant who has no possessions and no heartening expectations?
23241Or am I magnanimous even on the cross?
23241Or are my prayers weighted with sincere desire?
23241Or do I only think of a corner of it, just that part where my own little synagogue is placed?
23241Or do they become relaxed and demoralized?
23241Or does it dwell in selfish seclusion, imprisoned in merely selfish quest?
23241Or----?
23241Possibly"Vision of Sin"was meant?
23241SEPTEMBER The Tenth_ CRITICISM AND PIETY_"_ Thinkest thou, that judgest them that do such things, that thou shalt escape?_"--ROMANS ii.
23241Shall I find it a castle of gloom, or is there another gate through which I shall emerge into the fair, sweet paradise of God?
23241Shall I travel north or south?
23241Shall we know Him?
23241Shall we say that in that palm there was something akin to the pierced hands of the Lord?
23241Supposing one word had failed, how then?
23241That they can play the beast in the holy place?
23241Then why do so many spiritual cripples leave the synagogue cripples still?
23241There is rottenness in its foundations, and there is built into it"wood, and hay, and stubble,"How can it stand?
23241These hands of mine, the symbols of conduct, the expression of the outer life, what are they like?
23241Till seven times?"
23241To the swamps of transgression or to the fields of holiness?
23241Towards liberty or towards license?
23241Unto what?
23241Was our human Lord assailed by"the destruction that wasteth at noonday"?
23241What about peace and joy, and hallowed and blessed carelessness?
23241What am I doing in the kingdom?
23241What are my prayers like?
23241What are my treasures of contentment?
23241What brave music can be born in an organ which is short of breath?
23241What can a branch do apart from the vine?
23241What do I do with"the stranger"?
23241What do my words indicate?
23241What do they suggest as to the depths and background of the soul?"
23241What has He done for thee and me?
23241What if I see"no pastures green"?
23241What if the Transfiguration was the type of the purposed consummation of every life?
23241What if the two are one?
23241What if they are only two names for the same thing?
23241What is He doing?
23241What is left in the circle of obedience?
23241What is my stock of godliness?
23241What is the quality of our anger?
23241What is the size of my sanctuary?
23241What kind of a witness will it be?
23241What kind of forgiveness is this?
23241What kindles it?
23241What matter?
23241What part of us will remain alive, singing or jarring in men''s remembrance?
23241What shall I say when death comes, to me or to my loved one?
23241What shall be the issue of so vast a consciousness?
23241What shall he find in the ways of obedience?
23241What shall it be?
23241What shall we do to escape this great disaster?
23241What sharp dividing minister can cleave the two in twain, and leave me like a dismembered and dying branch?
23241What then?
23241What then?
23241What will men hear when they turn their thoughts toward us?
23241What will the Lord do with my sin, if in true humility I come into His Presence?
23241What, then, am I called to do?
23241What, then, can we do?
23241What, then, shall we do in the days of our prosperity, when all our trees are in full leaf?
23241When He spake of the woman as a"dog,"and of the disciples as"the children,"would there not be something significant in His very looks and tones?
23241When a day is over, do I carry its helpful lamp into the morrow?
23241When death knocked at my door, did I know that the King had sent him?
23241When little children feed on my presence do they grow in strength and beauty?
23241When new circumstances confronted him, his first question was this--"Where is Christ in all this?"
23241When some cherished scheme toppled into ruin, had I any thought that the Lord''s hand was concerned in the shaking?
23241Where are the morally and spiritually anà ¦ mic?
23241Where has the truth its waving flag?
23241Where''s the piccolo?"
23241Which of the causes provides a tent for the Lord of Hosts?
23241Which of the two opposites shall I love-- God or the world?
23241Whither are we going?
23241Who can lead us into the bright realm where smiles are born?
23241Who can trace the real springs of a tear and lay his hand on the emotion that gave it birth?
23241Who cares for food if presented by unclean hands?
23241Who has a cup of bitterness to drink?
23241Who knoweth the way of a frown, or who can uncover the secrets of fear?
23241Who knows?
23241Who shall be permitted to pass into the sanctuary of the cloud, and have communion with the Lord in the holy place?
23241Who will build his house at the foot of Mount Sinai?
23241Who will feed upon me to- day, and what will be the end of it?
23241Who would have expected that Goliath''s antagonist would emerge from the quiet pastures?
23241Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child?
23241Why choose a man when the arch- angel Gabriel stands ready at obedience?
23241Why did He weep?
23241Why not"go before"?
23241Why seek for palms in arctic regions, or for icebergs in the tropics?
23241Why should I fear?
23241Why should I fume and fret and worry as to what the sealed envelope contains?
23241Why, then, not seek it in the right place?
23241Will a tent contain them, or do they move with the scope and greatness of the heavens?
23241With what voice shall we speak when we are dead?
23241Yes, but how can I keep them?
23241Yes, but over what area shall I look for them?
23241Yes, has my Church any place in my prayer, or am I robbing her of part of her intended possessions?
23241Yes, indeed, what space has"the stranger"in my supplications?
23241_ If I were God, could I listen to them?_ Are they mere pretences at prayer, full of nothing but sound?
23241_ If I were God, could I listen to them?_ Are they mere pretences at prayer, full of nothing but sound?