accomplished by "tick, tick,
tick," it took fresh courage to go its daily journey. So it is the
special privilege of the Christian to commit himself to the keeping
of his heavenly Father and to trust Him day by day. It is a
comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work
without also finishing it.

There are two kinds of sceptics--one class with honest difficulties;
and another class who delight only in discussion. I used to think
that this latter class would always be a thorn in my flesh; but they
do not prick me now. I expect to find them right along the journey.
Men of this stamp used to hang around Christ to entangle Him in His
talk. They come into our meetings to hold a discussion. To all such I
would commend Paul's advice to Timothy: "But foolish and unlearned
questions avoid; knowing that they do gender strifes." (2 Tim. ii.
23.) Unlearned questions: Many young converts make a woful mistake.
They think they are to defend the whole Bible. I knew very little of
the Bible when I was first converted; and I thought that I had to
defend it from beginning to end against all comers; but a Boston
infidel got hold of me, floored all my arguments at once, and
discouraged me. But I have got over that now. There are many things
in the Word of God that I do not profess to understand.

When I am asked what I do with them. I say, "I don't do anything."

"How do you explain them?" "I don't explain them."

"What do you do with them?" "Why, I believe them."

And when I am told, "I would not believe anything that I do not
understand," I simply reply that I do.

There are many things which were dark and mysterious five years ago,
on which I have since had a flood of light; and I expect to be
finding out something fresh about God throughout eternity. I make a
point of not discussing disputed passages of Scripture. An old divine
has said that some people, if they want to eat fish, commence by
picking the bones. I leave such things till I have light on them. I
am not bound to explain what I do not comprehend. "The secret things
belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed
belong unto us, and to our children, for ever" (Deut. xxii. 29); and
these I take, and eat, and feed upon, in order to get spiritual
strength.

Than there is a little sound advice in Titus iii. 9. "But avoid
foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings
about the law; for they are unprofitable and v