ou ministering to Christ? Are you doing it with your hands?
Are you doing it with your substance and with what you have? Is He getting
the best of what is most real to you? Has He a place at your table? And
when He does not come to fill the chair, is it free to His representative,
His poor and humble children? Your words and wishes are cheap if they do
not find expression in your actual gifts. Even Mary did not put Him off
with the incense of her heart, but laid her costliest gifts at His feet.

Ye busy women, who work so hard to dress your children and furnish your
houses and tables, what have your hands earned for the Master, what have
you done or sacrificed for Jesus? "Can you afford it?" was asked of a
noble woman, as she promised a costly offering for the Master's work.
"No," was her noble reply, "but I can sacrifice it." Let us to-day look
around us and see, what we do and give more to the loving Saviour, who
gave up His whole life for us.

JULY 23.

"Bring them hither to Me" (Matt. xiv. 18).

Why have ye not received all the fulness of the Holy Spirit? And how may
we be anointed with "the rest of the oil?" The greatest need is to make
room when God makes it. Look around you at your situation. Are you not
encompassed with needs at this very moment, and almost overwhelmed with
difficulties, trials and emergencies? These are all divinely provided
vessels for the Holy Spirit to fill, and if you would but rightly
understand their meaning, they would become opportunities for receiving
new blessings and deliverances which you can get in no other way.

Bring these vessels to God. Hold them steadily before Him in faith and
prayer. Keep still, and stop your own restless working until He begins to
work. Do nothing that He does not Himself command you to do. Give Him a
chance to work, and He will surely do so, and the very trials that
threatened to overcome you with discouragement and disaster, will become
God's opportunity for the revelation of His grace and glory in your life,
as you have never known Him before. "Bring them (all needs) to Me."

JULY 24.

"The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us" (Rom. vii. 4).

In our earlier experiences we know the Holy Ghost only at a distance, in
things that happen in a providential direction, or in the Word alone, but
after awhile we receive Him as an inward Guest, and He dwells in our very
midst, and He speaks to us in the innermost chambers of