When Antigones was ready to encounter Ptolemy's armada in a sea-fight, the pilot cried out, "How many are they!-more than we!" " Tis true," said the courageous king, "if you count their numbers, they surpass us; but for how many do you value me?" As another has said, "If the ground of our assurance rested upon ourselves it might justly be called presumption; but the Lord and the power of His might being the ground thereof, they either know not what is the might of His power, or else too lightly esteem it, who account assured confidence thereon as presumption."

Faith asks triumphantly:"If God be for us, who can be against us?" "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith," writes the apostle. "Where is your faith?" the Lord once asked His timid disciples. The same question might be put to many a "fearful saint" today. If my faith is not in man, not in myself, but in God, in Christ, what can I, what need I fear?

Take""fresh courage," then, O timid soul. "Be still," your Saviour says, "and know that I AM GOD!" C. K.