July 13

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.— Ps. xxvii, 14.

Only God knows the trials that we bear,

The weary longing for a different fate,

The daily struggle and the anxious care,—

He knows, and we can wait.

Only God knows,—we have no want beside!

Our Father watches o'er us from above;

We feel our weakness, but His hand will guide,

He knows, and He is Love!

M. L. DICKINSON.

Working or waiting, our souls will hang on Him. And waiting, as we must recognize and remember, is a sacrifice of self, a real martyrdom no less than working. To win the soul in patience, to bear the trial of delay, to watch for the dawn through the chill hours which precede it, to keep fresh and unsullied the great hope that Christ will come, is a witness to the powers of the unseen world, which the Spirit of God alone can make possible.

BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT.