hat it fits it for the abode of God Himself, and makes
it dependent upon the sun, as the child upon the mother. The highest
spirituality, therefore, is the most utter helplessness, the most entire
dependence and the most complete possession of the Holy Spirit. Therefore,
the beautiful act of Christ in breathing upon His disciples, and imparting
to them from His own lips the very Spirit that was already in Him,
expressed in the most vivid manner the crowning glory of the new creation.
And when the Holy Spirit thus possesses us, He fills every part of our
being.

AUGUST 5.

"If any man hear My voice and open the door I will come into him and will
sup with him and he with Me" (Rev. iii. 20).

Some of us are starving, and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill
us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not give it out. Give out the
blessing you have, start larger plans for service and blessing, and you
will soon find that the Holy Ghost is before you, and He will "prevent you
with the blessings of goodness," and give you all that He can trust you to
give away to others.

There is a beautiful fact in nature which has its spiritual parallels.
There is no music so heavenly as an Aeolian harp, and the Aeolian harp is
nothing but a set of musical cords arranged in harmony, and then left to
be touched by the unseen fingers of the wandering winds. And as the breath
of heaven floats over the chords, it is said that notes almost divine
float out upon the air, as if a choir of angels were wandering around and
touching the strings.

And so it is possible to keep our hearts so open to the touch of the Holy
Spirit that He can play upon them at will, as we quietly wait in the
pathway of His service.

AUGUST 6.

"As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God" (Rom.
viii. 14).

The blessed Holy Spirit is our Guide, our Leader, and our Resting-place.
There are times when He presses us forward into prayer, into service, into
suffering, into new experiences, new duties, new claims of faith, and
hope, and love, but there are times when He arrests us in our activity,
and rests us under His overshadowing wing, and quiets us in the secret
place of the Most High, teaching us some new lessons, breathing into us
some deeper strength or fulness, and then leading us on again, at His
bidding alone. He is the true Guide of the saint, and the true Leader of
the Church, our wonderful Counsellor, our unerr