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UR talents differ with the gift that is given us; . . if the talent is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching; the speaker, his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal; the superintendent must be in earnest; the sickvisitor must be cheerful. Let your love be without insincerity, with a loathing for evil, and a bent for what is good. Put affection into love for the brotherhood; be alert to honor one another; your zeal, never let flag; keep alive your spiritual fervor; serve the Lord; let your hope be a joy to you; be steadfast in trouble; devote yourselves to prayer, make a practice of hospitality. . . . Cultivate the spirit of harmony. Instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk. Be not wise in your own conceit. Render not evil for evil. Let not evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good. (Rom. xii:6-21.)

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HY art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me? He that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know? In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. He that believeth shall not make haste. His soul shall dwell at ease. By faith in his spirit hath his spirit made this man strong-yea, hath given him this perfect soundness. The work of righteousness shall be peace: and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. (Ps. xlii; Prov. xxiv:12; Isa. xxx:15; Isa. xxviii:16; Ps. xxv:13; Acts iii:16; Isa. xxxii:17.)

HAST thou not known? hast thou not heard the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isa. x1:28-31).

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FOR as rain cometh not thither, but watereth

the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; SO shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off (Isa. lv:10-13).

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lot. The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will thank the Lord for giving me warning. . . . Thou shalt show me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore (Ps. xvi:6, 7, 12).

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HE stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt (Lev. xix:33, 34). When thou reapest thine harvest in thy field, and has forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands (Deut. xxiv:19).

And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee (Num. x:32).

Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thine outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house; then hear thou from heaven, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they

may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name (2 Chron. vi:32, 33).

ISRAEL, fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord, thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins (Isa. xliii:1-3, 25). For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee (Isa. liv:10). They that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as Mount Zion, which may not be removed, but standeth fast forever. The hills stand about Jerusalem: even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore (Ps. cxxv:1, 2).

HERE is sprung up a light for the righteous, and

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joyful gladness for such as are true-hearted (Ps. xcvii:11). O hold Thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. As for me, I will behold thy presence in righteousness; and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it (Ps. xvii: 5, 15). Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness; make

thy way plain before my face (Ps. v:8). I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go: and I will guide thee with mine eye (Ps. xxxii:8). I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them (Isa. xlii:16). Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off (Isa. xxxiii:17). The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life: of whom then shall I be afraid? . . . One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea, in the secret place of his dwelling shall He hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone. .. O hide not Thou thy face from me, nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succor: leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in the right way. I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living (Ps. xxvii:1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13).

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Y soul, wait thou in silence for God only (Ps. lxii:5).