they know him well
enough to love him for his own.

"ENCOURAGE HIM,"--by being at the services regularly, and in time, and
especially at the Prayer-Meeting. Stay to the Sunday night one, and go
to the one held in the week. What a comfort for the Minister to see the
vestry filled when he gets to the Weekly Prayer-Meeting! and when you are
there, or on your knees at home, pray for him; for if Paul needed the
prayers of the Church, much more do the Preachers to-day.

"ENCOURAGE HIM!" by taking the advice he gives you when he is in the
pulpit. A doctor would feel it if his medicine was treated as many
sermons are. What would the medical man think if he saw the bottle of
physic poured down the sink, or left in the bottle untasted, till there
was a cupboard full of bottles? He would not feel like preparing any
more. How a preacher is encouraged to make fresh sermons, when he sees
that his last was taken into the heart and life of some of his hearers.

"ENCOURAGE HIM!" by letting him know of anyone who has received good from
his preaching or visits. You need not be afraid of making him proud. He
has had enough of the other kind, or, as we sometimes say, he is sure to
have "a stone in the other pocket." We remember visiting one of our sick
class-leaders one Monday, who said, "Who was the young man who preached
here last night?" "Why, that was the new Minister!" "Well, you must
tell him a woman was converted." It will "ENCOURAGE HIM," and James
says, "If one convert him, LET HIM KNOW!"

XV. "WE HAVE NO MIGHT."
2 CHRON. xx. 12.

YET WE NEED IT VERY MUCH. We are in great weakness, and we need power,
for there is a great multitude come against us. It is not the wisest
policy to ignore the strength of our enemy. Jehoshaphat did not. It is
well for us to know the strength of our foes, but let it not lead us to
despair. Who shall number the host of the foes against whom we must
fight? They come to rob us of our inheritance, and if we submit, we
shall be enslaved.

WE have no might, but WE KNOW WHO HAS. The pious king said (verse 6),
"In Thine hand is there not power and might, Art not Thou God?" Is there
more than one God? Some Christians talk as though the Lord had been
obliged to give up some of His power to Bradlaugh & Co. Where is the
sign of a divided kingship? Could all the host of God's foes have
prevented the earthquakes? Do they know when the next will take place?
It is still true that