me as we must, yes, _must_, make and take for the Bible, if
we are not to starve our people and ourselves. Suffer me to repeat it
with deep earnestness; we must, we absolutely must, not merely
devotionally read but devotionally search and penetrate this divine
Book. And what shall come of the effort? By the grace of God, sought in
the deep joy of a profound submission, it shall come that we shall each
one realize, with a vernal newness and delight, that Christ is mine;
that the springs and secrets of this life in Him are mine, for the
realities of my home, my parish, my study, my soul. I go (it is for each
one of us to say it) with renewed thirst and certainty to Him the
eternal Fountain; I live, I live, yet not I; and therefore I can work.
It will be 'with fear and trembling,' as I know myself to be indeed in
the eternal Presence; yet it will be also in the power-giving 'peace
that passeth understanding, keeping the heart and thoughts, in Christ
Jesus,' a keeping that is not meant to vanish outside holy places and
holy hours, but to do its strongest and serenest work in the midst of
crookedness and perverseness, under the stress of toils and burthens, as
truly for me to-day as for the Philippians and their Teacher then."

"_The Spirit breathes upon the Word
And brings the truth to sight;
Precepts and promises afford
A sanctifying light._

"_My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of Him I love,
Till glory breaks upon my view
In brighter worlds above._"

COWPER.

CHAPTER IV.

_THE DAILY WALK WITH OTHERS_ (i.).

_When the watcher in the dark
Turns his lenses to the skies,
Suddenly the starry spark
Grows a world upon his eyes:
Be my life a lens, that I
So my Lord may magnify_

We come from the secrecies of the young Clergyman's life, from his walk
alone with God in prayer and over His Word, to the subject of his common
daily intercourse. Let us think together of some of the duties,
opportunities, risks, and safeguards of the ordinary day's experience.

A WALK WITH GOD ALL DAY.

A word presents itself to be said at once, about the connexion between
the secret and the common walk of the servant of God. The former is
never to _give way to_ the latter; it is to _run into_ it, underground.
"To walk with God _all day_" is to be our distinct and practical
purpose, and not merely a sweet sentiment and holy aspiration of the
hymn-book. The man who prays in secre