private Bible reading; and remember that God is speaking to you, and you are to believe and act upon what He says. 3. Never let a day pass without aiming to do something for Jesus; every morning reflecting on what Jesus has done for you. 4. If you are ever in doubt as to a thing being right or wrong, consider whether you can do it in the name of Jesus, and ask God's blessing upon it. 5. Never take your Christianity from Christians, but ask yourself, "How would the Lord have me act?" and follow Him. 6. Never trust your feelings or the opinions of men, if they contradict God's Word. 7. In deciding questions of truth and duty, remember that the wrong side has a crafty and powerful advocate in your own heart.

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."-St. Paul.

ROUBLE is the engine in God's hands to lift us up to heaven.-Adam.

If we stand right with heaven, every cross is a blessing, and every blessing a pledge of future happiness; if we be in God's disfavour, every one of His benefits is a judgment, and. every judgment makes way for perdition.-Hall.

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Will I venture nothing, suffer nothing for the "crown of glory that fadeth not away?" My dog will follow my horse's heels from morning till night, take many a weary step through mire and dirt, rather than leave me, though at night all he gets by it is but bones and blows. If my soul had any true greatness, any sparks of generosity in it, how would it despise the sufferings of the way for the glory of the end! How would it break down all difficulties before it, whilst, by an eye of faith, it sees the

Forerunner, who is already entered, standing as it were upon the walls of heaven, with the crown in his Hand, saying, "He that overcometh shall inherit all things." Come on, then, my soul; come on.—Flavel.

Afflictions scour us of our rust. Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.-Arrowsmith.

David's pen never wrote more sweetly than when dipped in the ink of affliction.-Mason.

God breaks the cistern to bring us to the fountain. He withers our gourds, that He Himself may be our shade.-M'Cheyne.

The diamond of piety never sparkles so brightly as when the Christian is surrounded with the darkness of affliction.-Anon.

When the flail of affliction, O Lord, is upon me, let me not be as the chaff that flies in thy face, but as the corn that lies at thy feet.-P. Henry.

Suffering is an unfailing badge of discipleship. — M'Cheyne.

Afflictions are God's most effectual means to keep us from losing our way to our heavenly rest. Without this hedge of thorns on the right and left, we should hardly

keep the way to heaven. If there be but one gap open, how ready are we to find it, and turn out at it! When we grow wanton, or worldly, or proud, how doth sickness or other affliction reduce us.—Baxter.

God brings us into straits, that He may bring us to our knees.—Henry.

A black cloud makes the traveller mend his расе, and mind his home; whereas a fair day and a pleasant way waste his time, and that stealeth away his affections in the prospect of the country. However others may think of it, yet I take it as a mercy, that now and then some clouds come between me and my sun, and many times some troubles do conceal my comforts; for I perceive if I should find too much friendship in any inn in my pilgrimage, I should soon forget my Father's house, and my heritage.-Dr. Lucas.

The way to get clear of the evil of trouble is to keep clear from the evil of sin; and to them that do so, trouble has no real evil in it.-Henry.

In those disappointments which to us are very grievous, God has often designs that are very gracious.-Henry.

When God makes the world too hot for His people to hold, they will let it go.-Powell.

It is not the suffering, but the cause, that makes the martyr.-Henry.

How many have we seen who with Jeshurun (Deut. xxxii. 15) have waxed fat, and kicked against the Almighty in the pampered time of their prosperity, who, in the time of their trouble, have, with broken hearts and bended knees, sought their God, and found Him to their unspeakable comfort.-Bp. Hall.

Learn how vain and weak a thing human nature is, which is pulled down to the gates of death, and clothed with rottenness and corruption, by a little disorder in the blood, in a nerve, in a vein, in an artery.-Sir M. Hale.

Losses and disgraces are the wheels of Christ's triumphing chariot. In the sufferings of His own saints, as He intendeth their good, so He intendeth His own glory, and that is the butt His arrows shoot at.-Rutherford.

Where sin sits heavy, affliction sits light.-Henry.

That which gives us occasion for sorrow should give us occasion for prayer.-Henry.

Afflictions are God's brine and pickle to preserve the saints from putrefying.-Dyer.