sions to it. The Heavenly Bridegroom wants a companion who
will understand Him. This cold, hard, flinty, wicked world does not.
"He came unto His own and His own received Him not." He knocked at the
door of His own vineyard and the husband-men said, "Come, let us kill
the Son." The divine Lord hungers for some one who will not misjudge
His purposes nor impute to Him base motives.

THE UNAPPRECIATED.

We have all seen people who were never appreciated. Those who were near
to them by blood and kindred always thought them strange and visionary.
What a sad thing if Christ's bride does not appreciate His aims for the
world, His sorrow over perishing souls, His heart-ache over dying men!
"The fellowship of His sufferings"--what can it mean? It means that we
mourn over the sin in the world which makes Christ weep; sob over the
evil that makes Him hang His fair head and groan. It means that ever
and always we shall look at things from the Christ standpoint.

THE SHEEP AND THE SHEPHERD.

"My sheep know [recognize] my voice," says the Shepherd. He states the
principle that "sheep" always hear when He speaks. "Lambs" may be at
times mistaken as to the voices that cry in the soul, but Christians
whose experience entitles them to the designation, "sheep," do not err
as to the speaker. Watch a good shepherd collect his flock at evening.
Every sheep knows him. It is getting dark, and the quiet animals are
busily feeding in the fragrant clover, but the tender cadences of the
voice of their guide and protector pierce their delicate ears and enter
their gentle hearts, and the white flock comes bounding toward the
shepherd. A sportsman in golf suit and plaid cap and with a fine
baritone voice may call earnestly, but "a stranger will they not
follow." The shepherd holds the key to their confidence, and no one
else can unlock the door to their love.

CHRIST HAS THE KEY.

Christ has the key to our hearts. He stands in the dusk of evening in
the falling dew and sends His sweet voice out across the billowing
fields of clover, and all His sheep leap toward "the Good Shepherd."

THE COW AND THE SUNSET.

Sanctification brings out the power of appreciation in the soul. What
God does for you fills your soul with gratitude, and you can get
blessed any time of day or night by simply reflecting on the mercies
and lovingkindnesses of the Lord. The natural human heart does not
appreciate God, and sees nothing especially lovely in Him. A cow and