June 4

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye be able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.—I COR. x, 13.

Yield not to temptation, For yielding is sin, Each victory will help you Some other to win; Fight manfully onward, Dark passion subdue, Look ever to Jesus, He will carry you through.

H. R. PALMER.

Every temptation in which we have been victorious makes us stronger. The virtue we have struggled for becomes more completely ours. Principles which have stood the test of seducing influences and urgent assaults, become established as settled habits. Our steps are made firm. The effect of temptation, properly met and resisted, is most salutary, not only leading to a steadier grasp of the virtues which have been endangered, but to a firmer trust in the Divine Providence. An army that has not met its foes is diffident and without the steady confidence of veteran troops. So it is with the soul in its spiritual conflicts. When we have endured temptation we know what we can bear, and what we can resist. We have acquired new abhorrence of evil from the very odiousness with which it has pressed itself upon us. But we have also acquired fresh faith in the Lord. We know that though He seemed long in manifesting His power, it came at last, and we have seen that His was the right time.

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