RY 24.

"Freely ye have received, freely give" (Matt. x. 8).

When God does anything marked and special for our souls, or bodies, He
intends it as a sacred trust for us to communicate to others. "Freely ye
have received, freely give."

It has pleased the Master in these closing days of the dispensation to
reveal Himself in peculiar blessing to the hearts of His chosen disciples
in all parts of the Christian Church; but this is intended to be
communicated to a still wider circle, and every one of us who has been
brought into these intimate relations with God, becomes a trustee, or
witness for these higher truths to every one we can influence.

If God has revealed Himself to us as our Sanctifier, it is that we may
help others to know Him as a Sanctifier.

If He has become our Healer, it is because there are sick and suffering
lives to whom we can bring some blessing.

In like manner, if the hope of the Lord's coming has become precious to
us, it would be worse than ingratitude for us to hide our testimony to
this truth, and hold it only for our own personal comfort.

JANUARY 25.

"Hold fast that which is good" (I. Thess. v. 21).

It is a great thing to be able to receive new truth and blessing without
sacrificing the truths already proved, and abandoning foundations already
laid.

Some persons are always laying the foundations, and they present at last,
the appearance of a lot of abandoned sites and half constructed buildings,
and nothing is ever brought to completion.

The fact that you are abandoning to-day for some new truth the things that
a year ago you counted most precious and believed to be divinely true,
should be sufficient evidence that you will probably a year from to-day
abandon your present convictions for the next new light that comes to you.

God is ever wanting to add to us, to develop us, to enlarge us, to teach
us more and more, but it is ever in the line of things which He has
already taught us, and in which we have been established.

While we are to "prove all things," let us "hold fast that which is good,"
and "whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let
us mind the same thing."

JANUARY 26.

"I called him alone and blessed him" (Isa. li. 2).

When we were in the East we noticed the beautiful process of raising rice.
The rice is sown on a morass of mud and water, ploughed up by great
buffaloes, and after a few weeks it springs up and ap