! Then some Sabbaths
there might be many a pulpit without a preacher, and many a Sabbath School
class without a teacher, and many a sphere of Christian labor without its
worker. Why? where are they? Away looking for their axe-heads! Away to the
banks of that river of disobedience, in whose sluggish waters they lost
them! Alas! that there should be so many to-day with an axe-handle, trying
in this way to fell beams for the house of our God! working with the
blessing lost! Hard labor this, and very little to show for it--except
earnestness! "And isn't it a fine thing to be in earnest?" Yes, but it is
a finer to have a little of that uncommon thing--homely common sense, at
the back of the earnestness, and the man who is hewing with an axe-handle
doesn't impress one as being overburdened that way! If we have enjoyed
and have lost the Fullness of the Spirit, let us confess, betake us to
the open fountain and obey, and He will put away our sin; and then, let
us start afresh, let us come to Him again for the Fullness, as at the
first, and we will find that "He abideth faithful: for He cannot deny
Himself" (2 Tim. ii. 13). For the sake of the Sacred Heart, for His Name's
glory, for the sake of souls, and for our own sake, we must not, we will
not try to live and labor without being "FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT."

THE END.

Transcriber's note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected without
comment.

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