It is a trite saying that “money commands all things.” This can only be accepted with many qualifications, but certainly anger is among the things over which it not unfrequently does exhibit its power.

Therefore if, for your own and others’ profiting, you desire to be “filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,” remember that prayer is your best means of study.

God give me now the spiritual power to “hear that (my) soul may live” and so to “behold the Lamb of God,” that when every eye shall see Him, and all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, I may behold the King in His beauty, and drink in His words of love!

Let us arise with His resurrection and in fellowship with His glorious ascension learn henceforth to live above.

Christianity, be it remembered, proposes not to extinguish our natural desires, but to bring them under just control, and direct them to their true objects.

How is it that the Almighty God permitted it to enter into the world? This perplexing question is raised by many when they are hard pressed in their consciences and want a convenient corner in which to hide.

“MEADOWS may be occasionally flooded, but the marshes are drowned by the tide at every return thereof.”

He loved thee so as to die for thee. He loved thee so as to shed his blood for thee. He loved thee so as to wash thee from thy sins in his blood. He loveth thee now, so as to appear in the presence of God for thee.

The thought of being made instrumental in the hand of the Lord in calling sinners to Jesus, made holy Paul willing to wait in a sinful world, and put off his own happiness.

LET me be mindful of Thy Name, O Lord, in the night, And keep Thy law.

PARADOXICAL though it be, only that man is at rest who attains it through conflict.

It was a stirring greeting which the Lord of Life spake to His first disciples on the morning of the resurrection.

Every true life is death-born, and the deeper the dying the truer the living.

Death is but for a moment. Life is forevermore.

Man, in the central chamber of his thoughts and feelings, has sorrows which are fully known to God and himself only.

“The horse is prepared against the day of battle; but safety” (victory, vide margin) “is of the Lord.”—Proverbs 21:31....

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How hard it often is to restrain anger, and how many excuses rise up to justify its indulgence!

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”—Proverbs 12:15 (13:10; 15:22)....