the body for the Lord."

There is healing in the promise,
There is healing in the blood,
There is strength for all our weakness
In the risen Son of God.

And the feeblest of His children,
All His glorious life may share;
He has healing balm in Gilead,
He's the Great Physician there.

DECEMBER 9.

"Launch out into the deep" (Luke v. 4).

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the
spirit Of boldness. One of the most essential qualities of the faith that
is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is
holy audacity. Where we are dealing with a supernatural Being, and taking
from Him things that are humanly impossible, it is easier to take much
than little; it is easier to stand in a place of audacious trust than in a
place of cautious, timid clinging to the shore. Like wise seamen in the
life of faith, let us launch out into the deep, and find that all things
are possible with God, and all things are possible unto him that
believeth.

Let us to-day attempt great things for God, take His faith and believe for
them and His strength to accomplish them.

The mercy of God is an ocean divine,
A boundless and fathomless flood;
Launch out in the deep, cut away the shore-line,
And be lost in the fulness of God.

Oh, let us launch out in this ocean so broad,
Where the floods of salvation o'erflow,
Oh, let us be lost in the mercy of God,
Till the depth of His fulness we know.

DECEMBER 10.

"According to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed" (II.
Cor. x. 13).

According to thy faith be it unto thee was Christ's great law of healing
and blessing in His earthly ministry. This was what He meant when He said,
"With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again." These
mighty measures are limited by the the measures that we bring. God deals
out His heavenly treasures to us in these glorious vessels, but each of us
must bring our drinking cup, and according to its measure we shall be
filled.

But even the measure of our faith may be a Divine one. Thank God, the
little cup has become enlarged through the grace of Jesus, until from its
bottom there flows a pipe into the great ocean, and if that connection is
kept open we shall find that our cup is as large as the ocean and never
can be drained to the bottom. For He has said to us, "Have the faith of
God," and surely this is an illimitable measure.

Let us