ties will prove incentives to faith and prayer, and occasions for
God becoming more real to us.

We shall get out of our troubles not only deliverance but triumph, and in
all these things be even more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

Our security depends not upon our unchanging love, but on the love of God
in Christ Jesus toward us. It is not the clinging arms of the babe on the
mother's breast that keep it from falling, but the strong arms of the
mother about it which will never let it go. He has loved us with an
everlasting love, and although all else may change, yet He will never
leave us nor forsake us.

OCTOBER 22.

"Touched with the feeling of our infirmities" (Heb. iv. 15).

Some of us know a little what it is to be thrilled with a sense of the
sufferings of others, and sometimes, the sins of others, and sins that
seem to saturate us as they come in contact with us, and throw over us an
awful sense of sin and need.

This is, perhaps, intended to give us some faint conception of the
sympathy that Jesus felt when He had taken our sins, our sicknesses and
our sorrows. Let us not hesitate to lay them on Him! It is far easier for
Him to bear them off us than to bear them with us. He has already borne
them for us, both in His life and in His death. Let us roll the burden
upon Him, and let it roll away, and then, strong in His strength, and
rested in His life and love, let us go forth to minister to others the
sympathy and help which He has so richly given us.

The world is full of sorrow, and they that have known its bitterness and
healing are God's ministers of consolation to a weeping world.

O, the tears that flow around us,
Let us wipe them while we may;
Bring the broken hearts to Jesus,
He will wipe their tears away.

OCTOBER 23.

"How long halt ye between two opinions?" (I. Kings xviii. 21).

It is strange that people will not get over the idea that a consecrated
life is a difficult one. A simple illustration will answer this foolish
impression. Suppose a street car driver were to say, "It is much easier to
run with one wheel on the track and the other off," his line would soon be
dropped by the public, and they would prefer to walk. Of course, it is
ever so much easier to run with both wheels on the track, and always on
the track, and it is much easier to follow Christ fully than to follow
with a half heart and halting step. The prophet was right in his pungent
qu