resist accepting it. During her
trip, he came, inquired as to her absence, and left. Returning she found
this note: "My life has been a struggle for you, might you not have waited
one week for me?" More she never heard, and her life of plenty became one
of want. Jesus has not fixed the day or hour of His return, but He has
said, "Watch," and should He come to-day, would He find us absorbed in
thoughtless dissipation? May we be found each day, in the expectant
attitude of those watching for a loved one.

NOVEMBER 30.

"In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves" (Phil.
ii. 3).

When the apostle speaks of "the deep things of God," he means more than
deep spiritual truth. There must be something before this. There must be a
deep soil and a thorough foundation.

Very much of our spiritual teaching fails, because the people to whom we
give it are so shallow. Their deeper nature has never been stirred.

The beatitudes begin at the bottom of things, the poor in spirit, the
mourners, and the hungry hearts. Suffering is essential to profound
spiritual life. We need not go to a monastery or a leper hospital to find
it. The first real opportunity for unselfishness will bring into your life
the anguish of crucifixion, unless you are born of some different race
from Adam's.

It is because men and women have not faced this that they know so little
of suffering and death. We must have deep convictions. Truth must be to us
a necessity, and principle a part of our very being. Lord, make me poor in
spirit. Lord help me to be even as Thou wert when on earth, always the
lowest, and therefore "highly exalted."

DECEMBER 1.

"As He is, so are we in this world" (I. John iv. 17).

Jesus will come into the surrendered heart and unite Himself with it,
impart to it His own life and being and become anew from day to day, the
supply of its spiritual needs and the substitute for its helplessness.

Our part is simply to yield ourselves fully recognizing our own
worthlessness and then take Jesus Himself to live in us and be, moment by
moment, our strength, purity and victory.

One in His death on the tree,
One as He rose from the dead;
I from the curse am as free
E'en as my glorious Head.

One in His merits I stand,
One as I Pray in His name,
All that His worth can demand
I may with confidence claim.

One on the Throne by His side,
One in His Sonship divine,
One as the Bridegroom a