March 11

Purge out therefore the old leaven. — 1 COR. v. 7.

Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. — MATT. xvi. 6.

ACCORDING to Luke's record, the "leaven of the Pharisees" is hypocrisy. A hypocrite is one who acts a part. The signification of the word has only that of evil in it. That being so, it is quite easy to be a hypocrite, — a Pharisee; the difficulty is not to be one. There is constant need of the warning, Beware of hypocrisy. Social influences are ever at work to convince men and women that their business is to make their life a masquerade. Worst of all is this when, as with the Pharisees, one's religion is but acting a part, an outside show, a seeming, a masquerade.

God is light. Light reveals. Shine into our hearts, O Light, that all darkness may be dispelled. Make us children of light, since it is a God of light we serve.

If children, then heirs. God is our Father. He is the living God. He is the God of the living. We are united to his Son. He ever liveth. Every true soul lives with him, lives like him, lives as long as he lives. We will beware of the "leaven of the Sadducees" by always keeping in grateful, happy memory that we belong to the race of which Christ is head; that we are one with his family in heaven and earth.

Hath A. Conkling.

I am trusting thee for cleansing In the crimson flood, Trusting thee to make me holy By thy blood.

I am trusting thee, Lord Jesus, Never let me fall; I am trusting thee forever, And for all.

F. R. HAVERGA: