blessing if it make me humble, if it make Christ more precious, if it make me useful, if it make me more like Christ, if it make me live more to God. Lord bless me, first; then "enlarge my coast." "Oh that Thou would'st bless me indeed; bless me in my soul, bless me with more love to God, bless me with a holy life, bless me by making me a new creature in Christ Jesus."

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Then, ask for whatever your wants may beEnlarge my coast."

"And that Thy hand may be with me to keep me and lead me in the right way, to make me a growing Christian, a shining light, to make me like Christ. Thy hand with me to keep me from evil that it may not injure me. We need the hand of God on us, and the presence of the Spirit to sustain us, and hold us every moment. "Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe.” We want God to keep us, to be with us, to bless us, to fill our souls with light and life, peace and joy; to bring us into communion with Him, and to make us walk with Him. If you have God's presence with you, then you are all right. We are going through a world where we see many things that suggest evil thoughts, and what we need is to be so kept from the evil by which we are surrounded that it may not hurt us. If God keeps your soul evil will do you no harm. Oh, let this be your prayer: "Lord, keep me; keep my soul that it may not take in sin; keep my heart and spirit that

it may not be contaminated; do not let this evil world hurt me; keep me from its power and influ

ence.

If you take this prayer and offer it up in all sincerity, God will answer you as He did Jabez. Keep Christ before you. It is Christ you must address; it is Christ you must honour, if your own soul would be blessed. We all have something we want, some more than others, only take care you make it second. Ask first for your own soul; then for your "coast." There is nothing too little for Him.

"That Thine hand may be with me," to show me which way to go, how to speak and how to act. O God, keep me from all the sights and sounds of wickedness around me, that they may not hurt my soul and drag me away from Thee!

We speak too much to friends. We all want more speaking to God. Speak to Him now. Be men and women of prayer. Never go from your bedroom in the morning, never lie down at night, no matter how late it is, without prayer. By all the value you set on your soul, talk to God; make this prayer yours: and it will be your experience -"God granted him his request."

"LIFE is thine, but not to trifle, or to idly fling away,

Let thy heart's inherent manhood turn from childhood's toys and play;

God would have His heavenly music rolling grandly through thy soul,

Uttered-not in broken fragments-but in one harmonious whole.

Let the master-hand of JESUS Sweep across the strings of life Till it wakes Divine responses, softly soothing pain and strife.

“TIME is thine, but time is passing, like a streamlet in its flow, Earth's mist-clouds are swiftly fleeting in the dawning's rosy

glow;

Give thy precious store of moments to the service of thy Lord, Let each hour tell of His mercies and the sweetness of His

word.

Speak! while speech is thine, and pleading can win sinners to His side,

Tell them of a Lord that loved them; tell them of a Christ that died.

"HAND AND HEART are thine to yield HIM; linked in service, joined in love,

Swift through all the mesh of labour willing heart and hand will move;

Feet must follow, daily walking in the path that He has

planned,

Faith can trust Him in the darkness, though it may not understand.

Christ has trod the path so lately, that the warm heart-cheering glow

Has not faded from the footsteps that we love to trace below.

"ALL IS THINE, but all to give Him, who has given all to thee,

He has poured on thee His riches, love and mercy, sweet and free,

Give Him, then, thy heart's best treasures, give Him all thy

earthly store,

And when all thou hast is given, long to give Him more and more !

Win thou crowns, but win them only thy most gracious Lord

to greet,

Cast them down in sparkling splendour at His Royal Piercèd

Feet."

EVA TRAVERS POOLE.

"REST IN THE LORD.”

PSALM XXXVii. 7.

Do you know what There are two kinds.

READER, have you found rest? it is to be perfectly satisfied? of rest. Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest," rest from the burden of sin, which Jesus gives to all those who come to Him, who find salvation through faith in His blood.

But there is another and a more perfect rest— "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls". -a rest from self, from all the doubts and fears which fill our minds: a rest in Him.

"Come unto Me is the secret of the first rest; "Learn of Me" is the secret of the second rest.

As sinners, we need the first rest. In the midst of the world, fast bound in one or other of its mighty chains, perhaps pleasure, or excitement, or it may be earthly affection, yet we feel sometimes a thirst for something better, which nothing earthly can satisfy. Jesus knows we have this thirst, and

He yearns to quench it. "In that last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink.” And again, to the woman of Samaria: "Whosoever drinketh of this water "the water drawn from the wells and broken fountains of this world-" shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." And His last words, as if He could not close His message without once more pleading with us to come to Him: "Let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely." And having come to Jesus and found salvation, then learn of Him. Having come, come

nearer.

See the difference in our position as we seek the two rests! We go to Jesus for the first rest, weary and heavy laden, thirsty and unsatisfied; seeking Him more for what He can give us, than for Himself. We see Him taking the sin, the restlessness, the weary longings, all away, and giving us instead His robe of spotless righteousness, quenching the burning thirst with "the water of life," and giving us peace and rest. And we are safe then, because henceforth we belong to Him, because our life is "hid with Christ in God."

And then we seek for the second rest, no longer