est fellowship, if we would keep our
perfect communion with Christ Himself. Sometimes we will find that an
altered attitude to one Christian will bring us into the flood-tides of
the Holy Ghost. It seems impossible to have faith without love, or to have
Christ alone without the fulness of fellowship with all His dear saints;
and if one member suffer, all suffer together, and if one rejoice, all are
blessed in common.

APRIL 7.

"In Him we live and move" (Acts xvii. 28).

The hand of Gehazi, and even the staff of Elisha could not heal the
lifeless boy. It needed the living touch of the prophet's own divinely
quickened flesh to infuse vitality into the cold clay. Lip to lip, hand to
hand, heart to heart, he must touch the child ere life could thrill his
pulseless veins.

We must come into personal contact with the risen Saviour, and have His
very life quicken our mortal flesh before we can know the fulness and
reality of His healing. This is the most frequent cause of failure. People
are often trusting to something that has been done to them, to something
that they have done, or something that they have believed intellectually;
but their spirit has not felt its way to the heart of Christ, and they
have not drawn His love into their being by the hunger and thirst of love
and faith, and so they are not quickened. The greatest need of our souls
and bodies is to know Jesus personally, to touch Him constantly, to abide
in Him continually.

May we this day lay aside all things that could hinder our near approach
to Him, and walk hand in hand, heart to heart, with Jesus.

APRIL 8.

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" (Prov. xvii. 22).

King Solomon left among his wise sayings a prescription for sick and sad
hearts, and it is one that we can safely take. "A merry heart doeth good
like a medicine." Joy is the great restorer and healer. Gladness of spirit
will bring health to the bones and vitality to the nerves when all other
tonics fail, and all other sedatives cease to quiet. Sick one, begin to
rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your
cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear,
distrust, care, are all poison drops; joy is balm and healing; and if you
will but rejoice, God will give power. He has commanded you to be glad and
rejoice; and He never fails to sustain His children in keeping His
commandments. Rejoice in the Lord always, He sa