morning
when you wake, let your heart go forth with a large faith in this; and
in the watches of the night let this thought be present with you--my
Saviour Jesus is round me and near me, and you can look up and say, "I
want to trust Thee always." You know what trust is. It is so sweet to
trust. And now cannot you trust Jesus; this presence, this keeping
presence? He lives for you in Heaven. You are marked with His blood, and
he loves you; and cannot you say, "My King, my King, He is with me all
the days?" Oh, trust Jesus to fulfill His own promises.

There is a second answer that I think Christ would give if we come to
Him believing, and say, "Is there anything more, my blessed Master?" I
think I can hear His answer:

"_My child, always obey._"

Do not fail to understand the lesson contained in this one word. You
must distinctly and definitely take that word OBEY and obedience, and
learn to say for yourselves: "Now I have to obey, and by the grace of
God I am going to obey in everything." At our recent exhibition at the
Cape, Mr. Rhodes, our Prime Minister, went to the gate, thinking he had
got the fee in his pocket. When he got to the gate, however, he found he
had not enough money, and said to the door-keeper, "I am Mr. Rhodes; let
me in and I will take care you do not suffer." But the man said, "I
cannot help that, sir, I have my orders," and he refused to let Mr.
Rhodes in. He had to borrow from a friend, and pay before he could pass
the gate. At a dinner afterward Mr. Rhodes spoke about it, and said it
was a real joy to see a man stick to his order like that. That is it.
The man had his orders, and that was enough to him, and whoever came to
the gate had to pay his fee before he could enter. God's children ought
to be like soldiers, and be

_Ready to say, "I must obey."_

Oh! to have that thought in our hearts--"Jesus, I love to obey Thee."
There must be personal intercourse with the Saviour, and then comes the
joy of personal service and allegiance. Are you ready to obey in all
feebleness and weakness and fear? Can you say, "Yes, Lord Jesus, I will
obey?" If so, then give yourself up absolutely. Then your feeling will
be, "I am not going to speak one word if I think that Jesus would not
like to hear it. I am not going to have an opinion of my own, but my
whole life is to be covered with the purity of His obedience to the
Father and His self-sacrificing love to me. I want Christ to have my
whole life, my whol