In His Presence in Whom We Live and Dwell

November 1.


Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

EPHESIANS 3, verse 15.


One family, we dwell in Him;
One church above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream,--
The narrow stream of death.
One army of the living God,
To His command we bow:
Part of His host has crossed the flood,
And part is crossing now.

C. WESLEY.


Let us, then, learn that we can never be lonely
or forsaken in this life. Shall they forget us
because they are "made perfect"? Shall they
love us the less because they now have power
to love us more? If we forget them not, shall
they not remember us with God? No trial, then,
can isolate us, no sorrow can cut us off from
the Communion of Saints. Kneel down,
and you are with them; lift up your eyes, and
the heavenly world, high above all
perturbation, hangs serenely overhead; only
a thin veil, it may be, floats between. All
whom we loved, and all who loved us, whom
we still love no less, while they love us
yet more, are ever near, because ever in
His presence in whom we live and dwell.

H. E. MANNING.