me and called me one glad day,
"Arise, my love, my fair one, arise and come away,"
I listened to His pleading, I gave Him all my heart,
And we are one forever and nevermore shall part.

JULY 18.

"Ye are complete in Him" (Col. ii. 10).

In Him we are now complete. The perfect pattern of the life of holy
service for which He has redeemed and called us, is now in Him in heaven,
even as the architect's model is planned and prepared and completed in his
office. But now it must be wrought into us and transferred to our earthly
life, and this is the Holy Spirit's work. He takes the gifts and graces of
Christ and brings them into our life, as we need and receive them day by
day, just as the sections of the vessel are reproduced in the distant
Continent, and thus we receive of His fulness, even grace for grace, His
grace for our grace, His supply for our need, His strength for our
strength, His body for our body, His Spirit for our spirit, and He just
"made unto us of God wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and
redemption."

But it is much more than mere abstract help and grace, much more even than
the Holy Spirit bringing us strength, and peace, and purity. It is
personal companionship with Jesus Himself!

Lord, help us receive from Thee to-day, that grace in all trial that shall
mean our perfecting in Thee.

JULY 19.

"Nevertheless, David took the castle of Zion" (I. Chron. xi. 5).

Many of you have so much fighting to do because you do not have one sharp,
decisive battle to begin with. It is far easier to have one great battle
than to keep on skirmishing all your life. I know men who spend forty
years fighting what they call their besetting sin, and on which they waste
strength enough to evangelize the world.

Dear friends, does it pay to throw away your lives? Have one battle, one
victory and then praise God. So they had rest from their enemies round
about. There is labor to enter in. The height is steep. The way of the
cross is not an easy way. It is hard to enter in, but having entered in
there is perfect rest. May God help us and give us His perfect rest.

O come and leave thy sinful self forever
Beneath the fountain of the Saviour's blood;
O come, and take Him as thy Sanctifier,
Come thou with us and we will do thee good.

Come to the land where all the foes are vanquished,
And sorrow, sin, disease and death subdued;
O weary soul! by Satan bruised and baffled,
Come thou with