got new truths that lift him up over every obstacle, and he mounts
over difficulties higher and higher, like a man I once heard of who
had a bag of gas fastened on either side, and if he just touched the
ground with his foot, over a wall or a hedge he would go; and so
these truths make us so light that we bound over every obstacle.

BIBLE STUDY.

How Moody was Blessed--"Mark Your Bible."

I want to tell you how I was blessed a few years ago, upon hearing a
discourse upon the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs. The speaker said the
children of God were like four things. The first thing was: "The ants
are a people not strong," and he went on to compare the children of God
to ants. He said the people of God were like, ants. They pay no
attention to the things of the present, but go on steadily preparing for
the future. The next thing he compared them to was the conies. "The
conies are but a feeble folk." It is a very weak little thing. "Well,"
said I, "I wouldn't like to be as a coney." But he went on to say that
it built upon a rock. The children of God were very weak, but they laid
their foundation upon a rock. "Well," said I, "I will be like a coney
and build my hopes upon a rock." Like the Irishman who said he trembled
himself, but the rock upon which his house was built never did. The next
thing the speaker compared them to was a locust. I didn't think much of
locusts; and I thought I wouldn't care about being like one. But he went
on to read, "They have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands."
There were the Congregationalist, the Presbyterian, the Methodist bands
going forth without a king, but by and by our King will come back again,
and these bands will fly to Him. "Well, I will be like a locust; my King
is away," I thought. The next comparison was a spider. I didn't like
this at all, but he said if we went into a gilded palace filled with
luxury, we might see a spider holding on to something, oblivious to all
the luxury below. It was laying hold of the things above. "Well," said
I, "I would like to be a spider." I heard this a good many years ago,
and I just put the speaker's name to it, and it makes a sermon. But take
your Bibles and mark them. Don't think of wearing them out. It is a rare
thing to find a man wearing his Bible out now-a-days--and Bibles are
cheap, too. You are living in a land where they are plenty. Study them
and mark them, and don't be afraid of wearing them.

Mood