with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that
we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the
presence of God.

Oh, that God might make every minister what Moses was at the foot of Mount
Sinai; "Moses led the people out to meet God," and they did meet Him until
they were afraid. Let every minister ask with all the earnestness his
soul can command, that God may deliver him from the sin of preaching and
teaching without making the people feel first of all: "The man wants to
bring us to God Himself." It can be felt, not only in the words, but in the
very disposition of the humble, waiting, worshiping heart. We must carry
this waiting into all our worship; we will have to make a study of it; we
will have to speak about it; we will have to help each other, for the truth
has been too much lost in the Church of Christ; we must wait upon God about
it. Then we shall be able to carry it out into our daily life. There are so
many Christians who wonder that they fail; but think of the ease with which
they talk and join in conversation, spending hours in it, never thinking
that all this may be dissipating the soul's power and leading them to spend
hours not in the immediate presence of God. I am afraid this is the great
difficulty: that we are not willing to make the needed sacrifice for a life
of continual waiting upon God. Are there not some of us who would feel it
an impossibility to spend every moment under the covering of the Most High,
"in the secret of His pavilion?" Beloved, do not think it too high, or too
difficult. It is too difficult for you and me to attain, but our God will
give it to us. Let us begin even now to wait more earnestly and intensely
upon God. Let us in our homes sometimes bow a little in silence; let us in
our closets wait in silence, and make a covenant, it may be, without words,
that with our whole hearts we will seek God's presence to come in upon us.

What is religion? Just as much as you have of God working in you, that
alone is religion. And if you want more religion, more grace, more strength
and more fruitfulness, you must have more of God. Let that be the cry of
our hearts,--More of God! More of God! More of God! And let us say to our
souls, "My soul, wait thou upon God, for my expectation is from Him."

ENTRANCE INTO REST.

IV.

_Hebrews 4: 1_.--_Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of
entering into His rest, any of you