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get their hats and see how quick they can get out of the church, but
will begin to shake hands with one another, and there will be liberty
there. A good many go to the prayer-meeting out of a mere cold sense
of duty. They think "I must attend because I feel it is my duty." They
don't think it is a glorious privilege to meet and pray, and to be
strengthened, and to help some one else in the wilderness journey.

What we need to-day is love in our hearts. Don't we want it? Don't we
want hope in our lives? Don't we want to be hopeful? Don't we want
liberty? Now, all this is the work of the Spirit of God, and let us
pray God daily to give us love, and hope, and liberty. We read in
Hebrews, "Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus." If you will turn to the passage and
read the margin--it says: "Having, therefore, brethren, liberty to
enter into the holiest." We can go into the holiest, having freedom of
access, and plead for this love and liberty and glorious hope, that we
may not rest until God gives us the power to work for Him.

If I know my own heart to-day, I would rather die than live as I once
did, a mere nominal Christian, and not used by God in building up His
kingdom. It seems a poor empty life to live for the sake of self.

Let us seek to be useful. Let us seek to be vessels meet for the
Master's use, that God, the Holy Spirit, may shine fully through us.

"Know, my soul, thy full salvation;
Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care;
Joy to find, in every station,
Something still to do or bear.

Think what Spirit dwells within thee;
Think what Father's smiles are thine;
Think that Jesus died to win thee:
Child of heaven, canst thou repine?

Haste thee on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer,
Heaven's eternal day's before thee:
God's own hand shall guide thee there.

Soon shall close thy earthly mission,
Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days,
Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise."

"I AM so weak, dear Lord! I can not stand
One moment without Thee;
But oh, the tenderness of Thy enfolding,
And oh, the faithfulness of Thine upholding,
And oh, the strength of Thy right hand!
That strength is enough for me.

I am so needy, Lord! and yet I know
All fullness dwells in Thee;
And hour by hou