In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being

November 10.

In Him we live, and move, and have our being.

ACTS 17, verse 28.


Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? or
whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

PSALM 139, verse 7.


Yea! In Thy life our little lives are ended,
Into Thy depths our trembling spirits fall;
In Thee enfolded, gathered, comprehended,
As holds the sea her waves--
Thou hold'st us all.

E. SCUDDER.


Where then is our God?
You say, He is everywhere:
then show me anywhere that you have
met Him. You declare Him everlasting:
then tell me any moment that He has
been with you. You believe Him ready
to succor them that are tempted, and to
lift those that are bowed down: then in
what passionate hour did you subside
into His calm grace? in what sorrow lose
yourself in His "more exceeding" joy?
These are the testing questions by which
we may learn whether we too have raised
our altar to an "unknown God"and pay
the worship of the blind; or whether we
commune with Him "in whom we live,
and move, and have our being."

J. MARTINEAU.