e three, and wherever there are
three there are four, and the additional one present is the Spirit of
God waiting to help us in our praying and to present our prayers unto
the Father in the name of Jesus Christ.

He must inspire the singing of the church. In Ephesians the fifth
chapter and the nineteenth verse we read, "Speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord." One reason why there is such a lack of power in
many churches in this country is due to the fact that the singing is
simply used as filling for the services. Hymns are used in a haphazard
way with little thought as to their bearing upon the theme to be
presented. I am quite persuaded that when the preaching, praying and
singing are all submitted to his control, whatever may be man's opinion
of the service, he himself will give to it his hearty amen.

IV

We are the sons of God. In Romans the eighth chapter the sixteenth and
seventeenth verses we read, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together." To this truth he will
say amen. A careful study of the Scriptures will reveal the fact that,

1. We are heirs. If therefore this be true we have but to claim our
birthright privilege, and there is no weakness in our lives but may be
offset by the strength of his. Whatever Christ has received as the
head of the church he has received in trust for the body and we may
have our possession in him if we but appropriate it.

A man in England died the other day in the poorhouse. He had a little
English farm upon which he could raise no grain and he let it go to
waste and died a pauper. His heirs discovered that on this little
English possession there was a copper mine and they are living in
luxury to-day in the possession of that which belonged to their
ancester [Transcriber's note: ancestor?] all the time but was not
appropriated and used by him.

2. Being sons of God, we are not free from trial; but there is this one
thing to say about our Christian experience: "Our light afflictions
which are but for a moment work for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory," and God's presence with us in trial is infinitely
better than his absence from us in the time of prosperity. Our trials
are but t