Mary Wilder Tileston

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He Will Teach His Ways
      That which I see not teach Thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more. JOB 34:32 He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths. ISAIAH 2:3 YES, take my heart, and in it rule; Direct it as it pleaseth Thee; I will be silent in Thy school, And learn whate'er Thou teachest me. GERHARD TERSTEFGEN PEOPLE cann ...read

Helping Our Neighbor
       Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good. ROMANS 15:2 Let us consider one another. HEBREWS 10:24 LOOK around you, first in your own family, then among your friends and neighbors, and see whether there be not some one whose little burden you can lighten, whose little cares you may lessen, whose little pleasures you can prom ...read

He's Still Glorified
      That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death. PHILIPPIANS 3:10 WHAT within me and withoutHourly on my spirit weighs, Burdening heart and soul with doubt, Darkening all my weary days; In it I behold Thy will, God, who givest rest and peace; And my heart ...read

Hide Your Pain
      Let all that ye do be done in love. 1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 (R. V.) IF thou art blessed, Then let the sunshine of thy gladness rest On the dark edges of each cloud that lies Black in thy brother's skies. If thou art sad, Still be thou in thy brother's gladness glad. ANNA E. HAMILTON WHAT can be more unkind than to communicate our ...read

His Love, Not Ours
      In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. --ISAIAH 63:9 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. --PSALMS 103:13 GOD only knows the love of God: Oh, that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart; For love I sigh, for love I pine; This only portion, Lord, be mine, Be mine this be ...read

His Will Becomes Mine
      As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him. COLOSSIANS 2:6 We have the mind of Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16 NEVER further than Thy cross; Never higher than Thy feet; Here earth's precious things seem dross; Here earth's bitter things grow sweet. Here we learn to serve and give, And, rejoicing, self den ...read

His Will in Your Surroundings
      As bond-servants [margin] of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. EPHESIANS 6:6 (R. V.) LORD Jesus, turn us from the noise Of endless strivings and empty joys, To find forever Thy one true peace, Rest from sorrow, from sin release! HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL CAN He not enable you to do that will from your heart, in your surround ...read

His Will is Done
      Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. LUKE 11:2 THY Father reigns supreme above, The glory of His name Is Grace and Wisdom, Truth and Love, His will must be the same. And thou hast asked all joys in one, In whispering forth, "Thy will be done." FRANCES R. HAVERGAL IN heaven God's will is done, and the Master teaches the ...read

Hold on to the Hand
      I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee. ISAIAH 42:6 DON'T be content with spending all your time on your faults, but try to get a step nearer to God. It is not He who is far away from us, but we from Him. If you ask me the best means to persevere, I would say, if you have succeeded in get ...read

How Love for Christ Frees Us
      I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved. PSALMS 119:47 THIS everlasting and compunctious study of duty, duty to everybody, everywhere, every day,--it keeps you questioning all the while, rasping in a torment of debates and compunctions, till you almost groan aloud for weariness. It is as if your life itself were slaver ...read

How to Think of God
      God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:6 Surely, He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. ISAIAH 53:4 THE way to think of God so as to know Him, is to think of Christ. Then we see Him, ...read

Hungering
      Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. PSALMS 107:5,6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. MATTHEW 5:6 THOU hear'st the hungry ravens when they cry, And to Thy children shalt tho ...read

I Have Refined Thee
      Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. JOB 13:15 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ISAIAH 48:10 I WILL not let Thee go; Thou Help in time of need! Heap ill on ill, I trust Thee still, E'en when it seems that Thou wouldst slay indeed! Do as Thou wilt with me, I yet w ...read

I See Your Sorrows
       And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. Exodus 3:7 THOU knowest, Lord, the weariness and sorrow Of the sad heart that comes to Thee for rest; Cares of today, and burdens for tomorrow, Blessings implored, ...read

In Not Of
      I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. JOHN 17:15 IN the hour of trial, Jesu, plead for me; Lest by base denial I depart from Thee. JAMES MONTGOMERY OUR Lord would have His people to be in the world, and yet to be separate from it. He would have them be separated, not ...read

In the Fighting
      Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a people for His own possession, zealous of good works. TITUS 2:14 (R. v.) LOVE only can the conquest win, The strength of sin subdue; Come, O my Saviour, cast out sin, And form my soul anew. CHARLES WESLEY LIVING and victorious faith is that ...read

Increasing Glory
      For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy work: I will triumph in the works of Thy hands. PSALMS 92:4 CONSIDER it (This outer world we tread on) as a harp,-- A gracious instrument on whose fair strings We learn those airs we shall be set to play When mortal hours are ended. JEAN INGELOW EVERY year has been to me a softening of t ...read

Inheritance of the Saints
      Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. COLOSSIANS 1:12 NOT their own, ah! not from earth was flowing That high strain to which their souls were tuned; Year by year we saw them inly growing Liker Him with whom their hearts communed. Then to Him they passed; but still ...read

Inner Change
      Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. . . . Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. --PHILIPPIANS 2:2, 5 JESUS, Thy all-victorious love Shed in my heart abroad; Then shall my feet no longer rove, Rooted and fixed in God. My steadfast soul, from falling free, S ...read