tful by stopping its beating. Belladonna will
do that, but that is not rest. Let the breath of life come--God's life and
strength--and there will be sweet rest. Home ties and family affection will
not bring it. Deliverance from trouble will not bring it. Many a tried
heart has said: "If this great trouble was only gone, I should have rest."
But as soon as one goes another comes. The poor, wounded deer on the
mountain side, thinks if he could only bathe in the old mountain stream he
would have rest. But the arrow is in its flesh and there is no rest for it
till the wound is healed. It is as sore in the mountain lake as on the
plain. We shall never have God's rest and peace in the heart till we have
given everything up to Christ--even our work--and believe He has taken it
all, and we have only to keep still and trust. It is necessary to walk in
holy obedience and let Him have the government on His shoulder. Paul said
this: "This one thing I do." There is one narrow path for us all--Christ's
will and work for us.

MAY 28.

"He humbled Himself" (Phil. ii. 8).

One of the hardest things for a lofty and superior nature is to be under
authority, to renounce his own will, and to take a place of subjection.
But Christ took upon Him the form of a servant, gave up His independence,
His right to please Himself, His liberty of choice, and after having from
eternal ages known only to command, gave Himself up only to obey. I have
seen occasionally the man who was once a wealthy employer a clerk in the
same store. It was not an easy or graceful position, I assure you. But
Jesus was such a perfect servant that His Father said: "Behold, My Servant
in whom My soul delighteth." All His life His watchword was, "The Son of
Man came to minister." "I am among you as He that doth serve." "I can do
nothing of Myself." "Not My will, but Thine, be done." Have you, beloved,
learned the servant's place?

And once more, "He became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross." His life was all a dying, and at last He gave all up to death, and
also shame, the death of crucifixion. This last was the consummation of
His love.

MAY 29.

"The body is for the Lord and the Lord for the body" (I. Cor. vi. 13).

Now, just as it was Christ Himself who justified us, and Christ Himself
who was made unto us sanctification, so it is only by personal union with
Him that we can receive this physical life and redemption. It is, indeed,