last burned to
ashes.

But we must get the victory through faith. The moment you cease to fear
it, that moment it ceases to harm you. He says, "The flames shall not
kindle upon you."

FEBRUARY 15.

"Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus" (II. Tim. ii. 1).

How to enjoy this day. This will never come by trying to be happy and yet
we are responsible for the conditions of real joy.

1. Be right with God; for "Gladness is sown for the upright in heart." "It
is His joy that remains in us that makes our joy to be full."

2. Forget yourself and live for others; for "It is more blessed to give
than to receive."

3. When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances and states, "rejoice
in the Lord," and "count it all joy, when ye fall into divers
temptations."

Finally, obey the Lord and be faithful to your trust; and again and again
will His blessed Spirit whisper to your heart, "Well done, good and
faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord."

"Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end or way,
But to act that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.

"Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."

FEBRUARY 16.

"We will give ourselves continually to prayer" (Acts vi. 4).

In the consecrated believer the Holy Spirit is pre-eminently a Spirit of
prayer. If our whole being is committed to Him, and our thoughts are at
His bidding, He will occupy every moment in communion and we shall bring
every thing to Him as it comes, and pray it out in our spiritual
consciousness before we act it out in our lives. We shall, therefore, find
ourselves taking up the burdens of life and praying them out in a wordless
prayer which we ourselves often cannot understand, but which is simply the
unfolding of His thought and will within us, and which will be followed by
the unfolding of His providence concerning us.

Want of faithfulness and obedience to the faintest whisper of His will
will often hinder some blessing which He meant for us until after a while
we may get so dull and negligent that He will not be able to trust us with
His whispers and we shall thus stumble on in the darkness and miss His
highest thoughts.

Lord, teach us to pray in the Spirit, to pray without ceasing and to lose
nothing of Thy will.

FEBRUARY 17.

"Your life is hid" (Col. iii. 3).

Some Christians loom up in la