Evening Journal

Just A Moment

DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.

Compiled by John G. Quinius, (The Sunshine Man)

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.-James iv. 8.

There is not a moment, not a talent, not a possibility of our being that should not be consecrated entirely to God and that should not be surrendered in tender, grateful, humble submission to his authority. We should feel that we could not afford to go out into the world and engage in its pleasures, its pursuits, and its ambitions, not because we have not the money, but because we cannot afford the peril, the temptation, the risk to the soul's peace and progress. Our ambition, our pleasure, should be to get nearer to God-H. W. Webb-Peploe.

Conversion and consecration stand in marked contrast. In conversion the believer receives the testimony of God and sets his seal to it that it is true. In consecration God receives the gift we place upon the altar and sets his seal upon the believer that he is true.-J. Wilbur Chapman.

God is the critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and I hardly can conceive of a better way of achieving saintliness than every night to sit still and let God say to you whatever he has to say. By the touch of his Spirit he seeks to mold men, but you must give the Spirit of God time. More blessing has been obtained among the hills and woods about Keswick than in the tent, though it has been the scene of the meeting of God and the soul in thousands of cases.-F. B. Meyer.

We are to help others bear their burdens,

Mutual helpfulness brings joy and cheer.

Selfish indulgence ends in destruction.

It is impossible to deceive God.

A divine law: We reap what we sow.

When all Thy mercies, O my God!

My rising soul surveys,

Transported with the view, I'm lost

In wonder, love and praise.

Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

Our daily thanks employ.

Nor is the least a cheerful heart

That tastes those gifts with joy.

Amen.

Dayton, Ohio.