er. They bear
no testimony for Christ. There are so few who can go to the homes of
the sick and read the Bible to them, pray with them, and minister
comfort to their souls. How few can go to the abode of the drunkard,
and tell him of Christ's power to save! How few there are who are
wise in winning souls to Christ!

It is the low spiritual state of so many in the Church of Christ
that is the trouble. We are not living up to our privileges. As you
go through the streets of London you will see here and there the
words, "Limited Company." There are many Christians who practically
limit the grace of God. It is like a river flowing by; and we can
have all we need: but if we do not come and get a continual supply,
we cannot give it out to others.

Mother! father! are you not longing to see your children won to
Christ? What is the trouble? Is it the fault of the minister? I
believe that though ministers were to preach like angels, if there
is a low standard of Christian life in the home, there will be
little accomplished. What we want, more than anything else, is more
grace in our lives, in our business affairs, in our homes, in our
daily walk and conversation. I cannot but believe that the reason of
the standard of Christian life being so low, is that we are living
on stale manna. You know what I mean by that. So many people are
living on their past experience--thinking of the grand times they
had twenty years ago, perhaps when they were converted. It is a sure
sign that we are out of communion with God if we are talking more of
the joy, and peace, and power, we had in the past, than of what we
have to-day. We are told to "grow in grace;" but a great many are
growing the wrong way.

You remember the Israelites used to gather the manna fresh every
day: they were not allowed to store it up. There is a lesson here
for us Christians. If we would be strong and vigorous, we must go to
God daily and get grace. A man can no more take in a supply of grace
for the future than he can eat enough to-day to last him for the
next six months; or take sufficient air into his lungs at once to
sustain life for a week to come. We must draw upon God's boundless
stores of grace from day to day, as we need it.

I knew a man who lived on the banks of Lake Erie. He had pipes laid
to his house from the lake; and when he wanted water, all he had to
do was to turn the tap and the water flowed in. If the Government
had presented him with the lake,