June 20

His wife looked back. — GEN. xix. 26

Remember Lot's wife. — LUKE xvii. 32.

OUR Lord was depicting scenes of the judgment day, and points to the shore of the Dead Sea, where Lot's wife built herself a monument, a piece of statuary, making a complete picture in itself.

Why this injunction? She was the type of the worldly-minded. "Remember," then, "the friends of the world are the enemies of God;" that Christ died "to deliver us from this present evil world," therefore, "he that forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my disciple." "Remember," the time hastens when the world must be abandoned, love it as we may. We can carry nothing away; the things of Sodom taken to Zoar would make a Sodom there, necessitating the fire that burns the world and the worldling.

We must not only leave Sodom, but "linger not in the plain." Remember, if the separation from the world be not complete, it must soon be final, from God, home, friends, all. "Two shall be in the field, one shall be taken and the other left."

"Remember," the love of the world perpetuates itself in the generations that follow; the "lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God," are seen in her daughters and descendants down through Moab and Ammon.

J. M. Cupton.

Once earthly joy I craved,

Sought peace and rest;

Now thee alone I seek,

Give what is best.

This all my prayer shall be,

More love, O Christ, to thee,

More love to thee!

MRS. E. P. PRENTISS.