y Scriptures, and to make Divine realities vivid and clear to our
spiritual apprehension. He comes as a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of Christ, to "enlighten the eyes of our understanding, that
we may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the
glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding
greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of
His mighty power."

Spirit of Power! with heavenly fire,
Our souls endue, our tongues inspire;
Stretch forth Thy mighty Hand,
Thy Pentecostal gifts restore,
The wonders of Thy power once more
Display in every land.

AUGUST 16.

"I am with you alway" (Matt. xxviii. 20).

Oh, how it helps and comforts us in the plod of life to know that we have
with us the Christ who spent the first thirty years of His life in the
carpenter shop at Nazareth, swinging the hammer, covered with sweat and
grimy dust, physically weary as we often are, and able to understand all
our experiences of drudgery and labor! and One who still loves to share
our common tasks and equip us for our difficult undertakings of hand and
brain!

Yes, humble sister, He will help you at the washboard and the kitchen-sink
as gladly as at the hour of prayer. Yes, busy mechanic, He will go with
you and help you to swing the hammer, or handle the saw, or hold the plow
in the toil of life, and you shall be a better mechanic, a more skilled
workman, and a more successful man, because you take His wisdom for the
common affairs of life. There is no place or time where He is not able and
willing to walk by our side, to work through our hands and brains, and to
unite Himself in loving and all-sufficient partnership with all our needs
and tasks and trials, and prove our all-sufficiency for all things.

AUGUST 17.

"Speak ye unto the Rock" (Num. xx. 8).

The Holy Ghost is very sensitive, as love always is. You can conquer a
wild beast by blows and chains, but you cannot conquer a woman's heart
that way, or win the love of a sensitive nature; that must be wooed by the
delicate touches of trust and affection. So the Holy Ghost has to be taken
by a faith as delicate and sensitive as the gentle heart with whom it is
coming in touch. One thought of unbelief, one expression of impatient
distrust or fear, will instantly check the perfect freedom of His
operations as much as a breath of frost would wither the petals of the
most