March 30

Having loved this present world. — 2 TIM. iv. 10.

Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. — LUKE xviii. 22.

LACK of one thing may be fatal. -- lack of one stone in the arch; of attention to one leak in the ship; lack of saving faith in the soul. Lack of one thing led the young ruler to make "the great refusal," and turn his back on the Redeemer.

No sacrifice, needful to the following of Christ, to be withheld; all sacrifice in vain without the following. Seil and follow.

To every life marred by a single sin or by a single imperfection, and to every service of heart, lip, or hand, comes the word, "One thing thou lackest."

Self-denying distribution to the needy in the name of Christ is a deposit laid up in heaven to be received again with usury.

Had this young man obeyed, possibly he had been called to some high and incalculably useful office in Christ's kingdom, — perhaps to be an apostle in the place of Judas; perhaps to write a gospel or an epistle to be read by the godly to the end of time.

No one can foresee to what place in the kingdom the obedient soul may be assigned.

W. P. Breed

God calling yet! I cannot stay;

My heart I yield without delay.

Vain world, farewell! from thee I part;

The voice of God hath reached my heart.

MISS J. BORTHWICK (Translation).