It is blessed indeed to be learning more of God each day of our lives. With all earthly knowledge and enjoyment there is a consciousness of want, a sense of weariness and unrest. But when ye are having to do with God, when we are learning His love and grace, learning that God is for us, then we find real joy and true peace and rest of soul, Then we are truly at rest, and it is by the truth that we are thus set free from rest and doubt, fear and uncertainty. The more a Christian learns of God's way, the more he comes to love it. Before he knows what a blessed way it is, he shrinks from it often, because it is many times a way hedged up, apparently, with difficulties,-a way hard for the flesh to walk in, and a way of trial. But God deals with us so as to reveal His love, strengthen our faith, and lead us on to greater trust in Himself and His word, We should desire this knowledge of God, and of His way. It is not gained by doing or suffering some great thing:we learn of God and His way just where He has placed us, and in our daily work, our joys, our cares, and our responsibilities. We should always remember that God can come to us and make Himself known to us wherever we are. We may be shut up, be alone, or be in a place where the rush and hurry of the world are all about us. In any place we must come to know that we cannot keep ourselves or learn anything of ourselves. We must learn our own helplessness, and that God can keep and teach His people in any place where He has put them. And if we are not sure whether we are where He has placed us, we are to go to Him for wisdom, and to be shown His way.

Is it not very sad for a child of God to be living on, year after year, and gaining little or almost nothing in the knowledge of God and love of His way ? How little Jacob learned about God in the twenty years that he was with Laban! On the other hand, Abraham's daily life was a walk with God, a continual learning more and more of God. God was watching over Jacob all those years (Gen. 28:15), but how little he learned of God's care! He acknowledged it, and realized it in a measure (Gen. 31:5, 7, 9, 42), but his desire was not to know and enjoy God, but to have God give him flocks and herds. God Himself was Abraham's portion. God Himself satisfied the heart of Abraham. And when you turn over to Paul, you find a man who loved God's way above all else. You never find Paul settling down; he was pressing on. We cannot, and need not, be Pauls or Abrahams, but we can so yield to God and trust in Him that we shall be learning more of Him each day. We can so know Him that things which come troubled us greatly we can leave with Him, and each care and burden we can cast on Him. We can come to love His way, and delight in it, no matter how hard it may be for the flesh. We can cling to Him, rest in Him, submit to Him. We can see His hand all the time, can praise Him for His mercies, can ask and receive wisdom day by day and hour by hour. We can live either in abundance or in want, and rejoice in Him.

We ought to so yield ourselves to God, and trust in Him, that He will be more and more to us. What is the getting of money, for which men toil and strive, when compared with growing in the knowledge of God and in the love of His way ? But if we cling to our own way and seek to do our own wills, if we are careless and slothful, if we love the world and neglect God's word, we shall not know the peace and joy of loving God's way. Chastening may be our portion ; God may in mercy afflict us to bring us to Himself; He may remove some cherished object on which our hearts were set, but He will in all show His infinite love. J. W. N.