your workshop, factory, kitchen, nursery, editor's room and
printing-office, as much as your pulpit and closet. He wants you to be
just as holy at high noon on Monday or Wednesday, as in the sanctuary on
Sabbath morning.

SEPTEMBER 30.

"In the secret places of the stairs" (Song of Solomon ii. 14).

The dove is in the cleft of the rock--the riven side of our Lord. There is
comfort and security there. It is also in the secret places of the stairs.
It loves to build its nest in the high towers to which men mount the
winding stairs for hundreds of feet above the ground. What a glorious
vision is there obtained of the surrounding scenery. It is a picture of
ascending life. To reach its highest altitudes we must find the secret
places of the stairs. That is the only way to rise above the natural
plane. Our life should be one of quiet mounting with occasional resting
places; but we should be mounting higher step by step. Everybody does not
find this way of secret ascent. It is for God's chosen ones. The world may
think you are going down. You may not have as much public work to do as
formerly. "Blessed are the poor in spirit." It is a secret, hidden life.
We may be hardly aware that we are growing, till some day a test comes and
we find we are established. Have you got above the power of sin so that
Christ is keeping you from wilful disobedience? Does it give you a shudder
to know the consciousness of sin? Are you lifted above the world?

OCTOBER 1.

"That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace"
(Eph. ii. 7).

Christ's great purpose for His people is to train them up to know the hope
of their calling, and the riches of the glory of their inheritance and
what the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe.

Let us prove, in all our varied walks of life, and scenes of conflict, the
fulness of His power and grace and thus shall we know "In the ages to come
the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Jesus Christ."

Beloved, are you thus following your Teacher in the school of faith, and
finishing the education which is by and by to fit you for "a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory"? This is only the School of Faith.

Little can we now dream what these lessons will mean for us some day, when
sitting with Him on His throne and sharing with Him the power of God and
the government of the universe. Let us be faithful scholars now and soon