t them for and all in which they stood by us, and then as we
concentrate the whole weight of recollection and affection, let us put God
in that place of confidence and think He is all that and infinitely more.

Our Friend! The one who is personally interested in us; who has set His
heart upon us; who has come near to us in the tender and delicate intimacy
of unspeakable fellowship; who gave us such invaluable pledges and
promises; who has done so much for us, and who is ever ready to take any
trouble or go to any expense to aid us--to Him we are coming in prayer, our
Heavenly Friend.

NOVEMBER 4.

"Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings as in obeying the voice
of the Lord?" (I. Sam. xv. 22).

Many a soul prays for sanctification, but fails to enter into the blessing
because he does not intelligently understand and believingly accept God's
appointed means by Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Spirit. Many a
prayer for the salvation of others is hindered because the very friend
takes the wrong course to bring about the answer, and resorts to means
which are wholly fitted to defeat his worthy object.

We know many a wife who is pleading for her husband's soul, and hoping to
win him by avoiding anything that may offend him, and yielding to all his
worldly tastes in the vain hope of attracting him to Christ. Far more
effective would be an attitude of fidelity to God and fearless testimony
to Him, such as God could bless.

Many a congregation wonders why it is so poor and struggling. It may be
found that its financial methods are wholly unscriptural and often
unworthy of ordinary self-respect.

When we ask God for any blessing, we must allow Him to direct the steps
which are to bring the answer.

NOVEMBER 5.

"I in them, and Thou in Me" (John xvii. 23).

If we would be enlarged to the full measure of God's purpose, let us
endeavor to realize something of our own capacities for His filling.

We little know the size of a human soul and spirit. Never, until He
renews, cleanses and enters the heart can we have any adequate conception
of the possibilities of the being whom God made in His very image, and
whom He now renews after the pattern of the Lord Jesus Himself.

We know, however, that God has made the human soul to be His temple and
abode, and that He knows how to make the house that can hold His infinite
fulness. We know something of this as all our nature quickens into spring