tide life at the coming of the Holy Spirit, and as from time to time new
baptisms awaken the dormant powers and susceptibilities that we did not
know we possessed.

Oh, let us give Him the right to make the best of us, and, with wonder
filled, we shall some day behold the glorious temple which He has reared,
and shall say, "Lord, what is man that Thou hast set Thine heart upon
Him?"

NOVEMBER 6.

"Bless the Lord, O, my soul" (Ps. ciii. 1).

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me be stirred up to
magnify His holy name. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits; who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Who so well can
sing this thanksgiving song as we, rejoicing as most of us do, we trust,
in this full salvation, and praising God for the glorious health of a
risen Lord and a continual youth?

This psalm and its opening verses is in the very center of the Scriptures
by an exact count of letters and verses. So let it stand in our lives, as
we look backward and forward and upward in grateful thanksgiving as we
sing in its closing strains, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is
within me, bless His holy name." Lord, center my heart in Thee and in the
spirit of love and praise.

NOVEMBER 7.

"I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee"
(Isa. xli. 10).

God has three ways of helping us: First, He says, "I will strengthen
thee"; that is, I will make you a little stronger yourself. And secondly,
"I will help thee"; that is, I will add My strength to your strength, but
you shall lead and I will help you. But thirdly, when you are ready, "I
will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness"; that is, I will
lift you up bodily and carry you altogether, and it will neither be your
strength or My help, but My complete upholding. Hence it must be quite
true, that when we come to the end of our strength, we come to the
beginning of His, and that in Him the weakest are the strongest, and the
most helpless the most helped. "He giveth power to the faint," but to
"them that have no might" at all "He gives more strength," and His word
forever is, "My grace is sufficient for thee." The answer is a paradox of
contradictions, and y