er he chooses to start his rake. The sky
is full of Pentecosts. Power enough, but how shall we belt on? By
fasting, prayer, and by willing to do the will of God. We have so much
haste that we do not tarry at Jerusalem for fullness of power. Moses
was forty years in the wilderness: Daniel fasted and prayed for one and
twenty days. We are told to pray without ceasing, and that there are
kinds of devils that go not out except at the command of those who fast
and pray.

"More things are wrought by prayer than
This world dreams of."

The Bible is a record of achievements impossible to man. They are
achievements of leaderships, emancipations, governments, getting money
for building God's houses, making strong the weak, waxing valiant in
fight, and turning the world upside down. The trouble with many of our
modern saints is that they seek for purity only instead of power,
ecstasy instead of excellence, self-satisfaction in a garden of spices
instead of a baptism that straightens them out in a garden of agony.
They are seekers of spiritual joys instead of good governments, cities
well policed and sewered, with every street safe for the feet of
innocence. The next revelation of new possibilities of grace that will
break out of the old Word will be that of power.

How will this divine aid manifest itself? In the giving of wisdom for
our plans and their execution. God will not help in any foolish plans.
He wants no St. Peter's built in a village of six hundred people, no
temple, except on a Moriah to which a whole nation goes up. Due
proportion is a law of all his creations. The disciples planned not
only to begin at Jerusalem, but to stay there. Their plans were wrong,
and they had to be driven out by persecutions and martyrdoms (Acts
viii, 4). But Africa, Europe, and Asia eagerly received the light
which Jerusalem resisted. Some ministers to-day stay by their fine
Jerusalems when the kitchens of the surrounding country wait to welcome
them. The Spirit suffered not Paul to go into Bithynia, but sent him
to Macedonia. Had he then persisted in going to Asia his work would
have been in vain.

We may expect wisdom in the choice of the human agents we select. Half
a general's success lies in his choice of lieutenants. No class leader
should be appointed nor steward nominated till after prayer for divine
guidance. God has more efficient men for his Church than we know of.
He is thinking of Paul when we s