Mary Wilder Tileston

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Loving God and Every Man
       Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets. MATTHEW 7:12 TAKE the trouble to spend only one single day according to God's commandments, and you will see yourself, you will feel by your own heart, how good it is to fulfil God's will (and God's will in rela ...read

Loving Others
      If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. --JAMES 2:8 DO you feel yourself alone and empty-hearted? Then you have necessity indeed for fortitude and brave endurance, but above all and before all you must get out of your solitude. You cannot command for yourself the love you wo ...read

Loving Our Neighbor on Our Knees
       Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you. I SAMUEL 12:23 MORE things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, ...read

Made For a Purpose
      I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. --ISAIAH 48:17 JUST as God leads me I would go; I would not ask to choose my way; Content with what He will bestow, Assured He will not let me stray. So as He leads, my path I make, And step by step I gladly take, A child in Hi ...read

Maintaining Trust
      Teach me Thy way, 0 Lord; I will walk in Thy truth; unite my heart to fear Thy name. PSALMS 86:11 IF thou but suffer God to guide thee, And hope in Him through all thy ways, He'll give thee strength, whate'er betide thee, And bear thee through the evil days; Who trusts in God's unchanging love, Builds on the rock that nought can move. ...read

Make It Your Problem
      As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. GALATIANS 6:10 She hath done what she could. MARK 14:8 VERY consoling words, if we can be sure they apply to us. Very pungent condemnation if they apply not, and we suffer opportunities to go by. The rule de.mands no impossibilities; but it does demand that every sphere, howev ...read

Marching Together
      Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? --HEBREWS 1:14 NEAR you in sympathy the angels stand, Their unseen hosts encompass you around; Strong and unconquerable the glorious band, And loud their songs and hymns of victory sound. And near you, though invisible, are those, The ...read

Meeting God Daily
      Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord. Zephaniah 3:8 That you might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:19 What is our work when God a blessing would impart? To bring the empty vessel of a needy heart. RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH In praying, we are often occupied with ourselves, with our own needs, and our own efforts in ...read

Members of the Kingdom
      Who hath delivered us from the power of dark-ness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. COLOSSIANS 1:13 IT is right that we should have an aim of our own, determined by our individuality and our surround-ings; but this may readily degenerate into exclusive narrowness, unless it has for a background the great thought that th ...read

More Value
      Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? LUKE 12:6 Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. MATTHEW 10:31 The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon which He hath planted; where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her ...read

Moving Forward With God
      I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong, and of a good courage. JOSHUA 1:5,6 And all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. EXODUS 24:3 OUR Lord teaches us not to shrink from the consequences which we may see to be involved in any course of duty which we have undertake ...read

Music of the Lord
      Our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. --PSALMS 33:21 ON our way rejoicing as we homeward move, Hearken to our praises, O Thou God of love! Is there grief or sadness? Thine it cannot be! Is our sky beclouded? Clouds are not from Thee! On our way rejoicing as we homeward move, Hearken to our praises, O ...read

No Change
      Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also with all that therein is. DEUTERONOMY 10:14 FATHER, there is no change to live with Thee, Save that in Christ I grow from day to day; In each new word I hear, each thing I see, I but rejoicing hasten on my way. JONES VERY THE immediate result of the ...read

No Fear on the Journey
      Let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them. DEUTERONOMY 20:3 SON of the living God! Oh, call us Once and again to follow Thee, And give us strength, whate'er befall us, Thy true disciples still to be. And if our coward hearts deny Thee, In inmost thought, or deed, or word, Let not ...read

No Matter the Circumstances
      I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. --ISAIAH 45:3 GOD! Thou art Love! I build my faith on that! I know Thee, Thou hast kept my path and made Light for me in the darkness--tempering sorrow, So that it reac ...read

Not As We Will
      Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. MATTHEW 26:39 THY will, not mine, 0 Lord, However dark it be! Lead me by Thine own hand, Choose out the path for me. I dare not choose my lot; I would not, if I might; Choose Thou for me, my God; So shall I walk aright. HORATIUS BONAR CHOOSE but the will of God, and thou willest with His wisdom, t ...read

Not Attained
      Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Jesus Christ. PHILIPPIANS 3:12 LET no man think that sudden in a minute All is accomplished and the work is done;-- Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it, Scarce were it ended ...read

Not Despised
      My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. PSALMS 73:26 O, LITTLE heart of mine! shall pain Or sorrow make thee moan, When all this God is all for thee, A Father and thine own? FRUERICK W. FABER MAKE allowance for infirmities of the flesh, which are purely physical. To be fatigued, bo ...read

Not Separated from Service
      Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart. PSALMS 119:111 GIRT with the love of God on every side, Breathing that love as heaven's own healing air, I work or wait, still following my Guide, Braving each foe, escaping every snare. HORATIUS SONAR THE Lord preserve us near unto Himse ...read