October 1

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Howbear we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of

man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit seacrheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned

15 But he that is spiritual, judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ

Jesus teaches that the Holy Ghost does not add a new verse to the revealed will of God, but takes the Word of God already existing, and gives a clearness and distinctness to it hitherto unknown. This is also Paul's teaching in this chapter. "The Romanist looks to the Pope to interpret the Bible; the Tractarian looks to the Church to interpret it; the Socinian looks to reason to interpret it; the Christian looks to the Holy Ghost to explain and interpret the Bible to him."—Cumming.

"These revealed truths cannot be seen by the eye, heard by the ear, or guessed by the heart; they are visible, audible, imaginable, only to the spirit. By the spiritually prepared they are recognized as beautiful, though they be folly to all the world beside."—F. W. Robertson.

"What a person has experienced within cannot be argued out."—Heubner.

Closet Promise.—For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.—Col. iii. 3.

Into my closet, fleeing as the dove Doth homeward flee, I haste away to ponder o'er Thy love, Alone with Thee.

In the dim woods, by human ear unheard, Joyous and free, Lord, I adore Thee, feasting on Thy word, Alone with Thee.

Amid the busy city, thronged and gay, But One I see;

Tasting sweet peace as unobserved I pray Alone with Thee.

O sweetest life—life hid with Christ in God, So making me,

At home, and by the wayside, and abroad, Alone with Thee.

—Mrs. Elisabeth Prentiss.