November 10

Partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stœdfast unto the end. — HER. iii. 14.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. — MATT. xxiv. 13.

A WARNING note the Master sounds as he “sits upon the Mount of Olives.” The love of the majority shall cool, therefore “endure.” To begin is not to finish; profession is not possession, neither is confession conquest. Admiration for the character of Christ is far different from submitting to the will of Christ. “He endured the cross.” “And from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.” The multitudes who shouted. “Hosanna,” cried also, “Crucify.” The disciple who said, “Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee,” likewise declared, “I do not know the man;” and it was “one of the twelve who betrayed him.” “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation,” trial, tribulation, who has patience to submit to the command of his Lord, and who has perseverance to press forward in the face of difficulty and in spite of all opposition. “They starve well,” was the comment of an old commander on his patient troops. “They charge well,” was the encomium which a veteran general gave to his leal-hearted warriors. To starve, to charge, to be patient, to persevere, “to hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown,” and “to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” — this is to endure; “and he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.”

A. M. H. L. L. S. E.

Ne’er think the victory won, Nor lay thine armor down; Thine arduous work will not be done Till thou obtain the crown.

HEATH.