Look Not at What Stands in the Way, Look In Where the Will of the Lord is Revealed

November 23.

I have taught thee
In the way of wisdom;
I have led thee in rightpaths.

PROVEBS 4, verse 11.


We know not what the path may be
As yet by us untrod;
But we can trust our all to Thee,
Our Father and our God.

WM. J. IRONS.


We have very little command over the
circumstances in which we may be called
by God to bear our part--unlimited command
over the temper of our souls, but next to no
command over the outward forms of trial.
The most energetic will cannot order the events
by which our spirits are to be perilled and tested.
Powers quite beyond our reach--death, accident,
fortune, another's sin--may change in a moment
all the conditions of our life. With to-morrow's
sun existence may have new and awful aspects
for any of us.

J. H. THOM.


Oh, my friend, look not out at what stands
in the way; what if it look dreadfully as a lion,
is not the Lord stronger than the mountains
of prey? But look in, where the law of life
is written, and the will of the Lord revealed,
that thou mayest know what is the
Lord's will concerning thee.

I. PENINGTON.