feeble resources, and yet, while so depending, to be absolutely faithful
and diligent, and not allow our trust to deteriorate into supineness and
indolence. We find no sloth or negligence in Gideon, or his three hundred;
though they were weak and few, they were wholly true, and everything in
them ready for God to use to the very last. "Faint yet pursuing" was their
watchword as they followed and finished their glorious victory, and they
rested not until the last of their enemies were destroyed, and even their
false friends were punished for their treachery and unfaithfulness.

So God still calls the weakest instruments, but when He chooses and
enables them they are no longer weak, but "mighty through God," and
faithful through His grace to every trust and opportunity; "trusting," as
Dr. Chalmers used to say, "as though all depended upon God, and working as
though all depended upon themselves."

Teach me, my blessed Master, to trust and obey.

SEPTEMBER 22.

"We see not yet all things put under Him, but we see Jesus" (Heb. ii. 8,
9).

How true this is to us all! How many things there are that seem to be
stronger than we are, but blessed be His name! they are all in subjection
under Him, and we see Jesus crowned above them all; and Jesus is our Head,
our representative, our other self, and where He is we shall surely be.
Therefore when we fail to see anything that God has promised, and that we
have claimed in our experience, let us look up and see it realized in Him,
and claim it in Him for ourselves. Our side is only half the circle, the
heaven side is already complete, and the rainbow of which we see not the
upper half, shall one day be all around the throne and take in the other
hemisphere of all our now unfinished life. By faith, then, let us enter
into all our inheritance. Let us lift up our eyes to the north and to the
south, to the east and to the west, and hear Him say, "All the land that
thou seest will I give thee." Let us remember that the circle, is
complete, that the inheritance is unlimited, and that all things are put
under His feet.

SEPTEMBER 23.

"I am the Lord that healeth thee" (Ex. xv. 26).

It is very reasonable that God should expect us to trust Him for our
bodies as well as our souls, for if our faith is not practical enough to
bring us temporal relief, how can we be educated for real dependence upon
God for anything that involves serious risk? It is all very well to ta