April 7

I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

PSALM Cxix. 45.

If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. — JOHN VIII. 31, 32.

LIKE genius in art. Christian genius comes not so much by endowment as by toil. He who continues in the word of the Master moves in an atmosphere of heavenly inspiration as well as of heavenly aspiration. Only by a faithful adherence to the teaching and example of Christ can one come to a full knowledge of spiritual truth.

Spiritual knowledge thus obtained touches all the powers as by a divine force, and each springs to highest activity along the lines of holy living. Yet not as a child learning to walk, nor as one lame, does a Christian move, nor do the rules of the art of Christian living harass the aspiring effort. Rather with free step and unhindered energy the disciple, trusting, loving, following Jesus, runs and is not weary, walks and faints not. The Christian worker reproduces the divine ideals, and brings forth results which alike are a blessing to humanity and a glory to the Master.

Dear fellow-disciple, it is your privilege to possess the great freedom with which Christ makes his people free, — free from the curse of sin, free from the restrictions of ignorance and weakness, — and in which he impresses on imperfect natures his own spirit, so that you may walk and work and live in the liberty of the sons of God.

J. M. Allis.

Bondsman must each soul remain Unless truth shall break the chain; Truth of God, oh, make me free, Set my soul at liberty.

R. M. O'FORD.