DIRECTION,

"Toward the sea." Do not go towards the dry land if you want rain, or in
other words, if you want success in soul-saving, look not for it from
those who get up entertainments and seek to make money by gambling in
bazaars. Do not expect conversions from mere eloquence or rhetoric.
Large congregations do not always mean abiding success. Beautiful
chapels are not always remarkable for attracting those who need a
Saviour. Look at the place from whence Wesley, Whitfield, and the others
who were to win souls derived their power.

DO NOT LET FAITH BE CHILLED BY WAITING!

If you wait upon the Lord you have a right to be of good courage. "They
shall not be ashamed that wait for Me, saith the Lord." If our trust is
in the Lord, we can afford to wait. The longer He keeps us waiting, the
more He will give us. Never mind if the servant says, "There is
nothing." It is not the Master's voice. Go again. Don't talk to me of
nothing! Go again! Leave me to pray in peace till there is something to
praise God for.

I CAN PRAISE HIM FOR THE SMALLEST SIGN.

Only "a man's hand," sayest thou? but what Man? It is the same Hand that
wrote on the wall the sentence of Belshazzar. It is the Hand of which
David sang "Thou openest Thine Hand and satisfiest the desire of every
living thing." We who look for Jesus remember that when He left us He
did not clench His fist at the world that had treated Him so ill. "He
lifted up his hands and blessed them." He has not closed them yet, but
sends blessings on even the rebellious. Faith sees in the open hand of
Jesus the promise of great gifts for those who wait upon Him. We read,
directly, "the heaven was black, and there was a great rain."

If we pass over a few years we see the end of these men, the end so far
as this world is concerned. They both ride in chariots. He who rose up
to eat and drink, rides disguised, but is not able to deceive the winged
messengers of death. The murderer is found out, and dies in his chariot.

GOES TO HELL IN HIS CHARIOT!

So perish those who prefer to eat when others starve, though they might
unite with those who bring blessings on the perishing!

A year afterwards, the man who prayed walks along the road; there is one
by his side who watches him with eager glance, and now comes the chariot
of heaven.

GOD SENDS HIS CARRIAGE TO MEET

the man who climbed the hill to pray, and soon he is parted from his
young friend; but see! his