March 14

Be careful for nothing. — PHIL. iv. 6.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. — MATT. vi. 27, 34.

CHRIST'S teaching is this: "Ask questions: question anxiety out of existence." There is no power equal to a question. A question walks right into the soul and compels it to think. See God amid the majesty of the whirlwind, firing a volley of questions at the self-sufficient Job! That volley did what the combined learning of the Orient failed to do. It brought down self-sufficiency. Christ in the Sermon on the Mount has given us a volley of questions wherewith to bring down anxiety. Ask yourselves. What reason is there for anxiety? God has given you the higher gifts, "life and body." Is it reasonable to suppose that he will deny you the lower gifts, "food and raiment?" Ask yourselves. What profit is there in anxiety? Can it sweep away the limitations in which men find themselves? Ask yourselves. Does anxiety accord with the teachings of nature? What do the flowers, robed in their golden garments, say? What do the birds, picking their daily food out of the ground, say? Does anxiety accord with your divine sonship, or with God's fatherhood, or with the future which God has depicted for his people? That future is all golden. It is full of promises and songs and glories. It carries in it an endless heaven.

David Gregg

We expect a bright to-morrow; all will be well. Faith can sing through days of sorrow, All, all is well. On our Father's love relying, Jesus every need supplying, Or in living, or in dying, All must be well.

MRS. M. B. PETERS.