r troubles are His
troubles, and that in all our afflictions He is afflicted. It is not a
sympathy of sentiment, but a sympathy of suffering.

There is much help in this for the tired heart. It is the foundation of
His Priesthood, and God meant that it should be to us a source of
unceasing consolation. Let us realize, more fully, our oneness with our
Great High Priest, and cast all our burdens on His great heart of love. If
we know what it is to ache in every nerve with the responsive pain of our
suffering child, we can form some idea of how our sorrows touch His heart,
and thrill His exalted frame. As the mother feels her babe's pain, as the
heart of friendship echoes every cry from another's woe, so in heaven, our
exalted Saviour, even amid the raptures of that happy world, is suffering
in His Spirit and even in His flesh with all His children bear. "Seeing
then we have such a great high Priest, let us come boldly to the throne of
grace," and let us come to our great High Priest.

JUNE 27.

"Be filled with the Spirit" (Eph. v. 18).

Some of the effects of being filled with the Spirit are:

1. Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human
nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

2. Fulness of joy so that the heart is constantly radiant. This does not
depend on circumstances, but fills the spirit with holy laughter in the
midst of the most trying surroundings.

3. Fulness of wisdom, light and knowledge, causing us to see things as He
sees them.

4. An elevation, improvement and quickening of the mind by an ability to
receive the fulfilment of the promise, "We have the mind of Christ."

5. An equal quickening of the physical life. The body was made for the
Holy Ghost, as well as the mind and soul.

6. An ability to pray the prayer of the Holy Ghost. If He is in us there
will be a strange accordance with God's working in the world around us.
There is a divine harmony between the Spirit and Providence.

JUNE 28.

"Leaning upon her beloved" (Songs of Solomon viii. 5).

Shall you make the claim most practical and real and lean like John your
full weight on the Lord's breast? That is the way He would have us prove
our love. "If you love me lean hard," said a heathen woman to her
missionary, as she was timidly leaning her tired body upon her stalwart
breast. She felt slighted by the timorous reserve, and asked the
confidence that would lay all its