Calendar:Feb. 154/1 to March 15th.

DAILY BIBLE READING:……..Feb. 15th, Heb. 9th; Feb. 28th, 1 Pet. 4; March 15th, Rev. 3. MEMORY WORK:John, ch. 2. Memory Outline of Luke.
GOOD READING………….John, J. G. B., continued.

Daily Reading

It is a great encouragement to hear from various ones that they are beginning the reading of our daily chapter. Out here in California, where I am now, the young people are interested and I hope for a good number to be with us in this daily happy privilege of beginning the day, if possible, with the "chapter a day." We have much of the greatest value this month, completing the Epistle to the Hebrews where the supremacy of our Lord Jesus Christ is the theme. What a remedy for and preventive of worldliness. Then the intensely practical Epistles of James and Peter, with the heart-breathings of the beloved John, and the warnings of Jude. May we love it all and obey it more fully than ever.

Memory Work

I haven't had time to hear how you have done with John. The second chapter is so short that it will be easier to review the first also and make sure of it all. Then the Memory Outlines-I am hoping for a great many more in Luke than in Matthew, and am glad to say a number hope to do this. I am very thankful for those who responded to our first offer, and I know they have been great gainers, with the outlines of Matthew in their minds and Mr. Kelly's valuable book as a souvenir.

The month of December closed the period when the offer of the premium held good, and I think we shall make another for Luke, and in order that you may not be over-pressed for time, the offer for Luke is extended to the 31st day of March. As a token of our appreciation of your work, we will be glad to give Mr. Darby's Notes on Luke, called "The Man of Sorrows." So let us see how many of you will earn this valuable addition to your library. Here is our honor list of those who made the memory outlines of Matthew.

Mildred Howard, Dorothy Howard (Baltimore); Evelyn Eames (Miami); Georgianna D. White, Sara Murdock (Philadelphia); Carrie Schwartzel (Detroit); Grace I. Reber (Pottstown) ; Harold D. Gessner (Reading); Edna Sassaman (Boyertown).

Correspondence

"Dear bro. R., I am awfully ashamed of myself. I procrastinated, and Jan. 1st found the last 3 chapters of memory outlines of Matthew not memorized. The enclosed Greek lesson is late for the same reason. But I am very thankful that you encouraged that work. What I have learned that way will stay by me, I think. I hope to get Luke done in about a month. Many thanks to you.-E."
Well, dear brother E., I can sympathize with you, for putting off is so easy. Possibly a few more can join us in this. But I am so glad you are girding your loins for the next work. Do it now is a good motto.

"I suppose you are getting further and further away from us now; but it is good to hear from you now and then through your notes on our Greek papers, and also through Y. B. D. It seems like a nice long letter to each of us. What you said about the Greek Testaments, in Dec. help and food, sounds good, we certainly are going to try hard for high marks. We were glad to see that Luke is to be next for the memory outline. We certainly did not regret having worked hard on Matthew; it is worth so much to have those outlines of the chapters. We are anxious to know how many others took up that work. I do trust that, if the Lord tarries, we shall be able to do Luke also.-M."

I am quite sure you will succeed in both Greek and Luke, and wish you good success.

"DEAR bro. R.-A year has rolled around since I took a special interest in our little department; and I should not say little, for it is so full. The more I go on, the more I enjoy it, and I have been greatly helped in many ways. As we go on in the study of God's word, we surely realize our weakness and are brought to realize more of the help of the Holy Spirit, for He it is who is here to help and guide us, and everything we learn from God's word is in some way the fruit of His work.-E. b."

"I was agreeably surprised with the marks on my Greek papers. Since the offer in December, I'll have to try real hard to keep them as accurate as I can. I got my Kelly on Matthew. I haven't read all of it, but I'm at it, and enjoying it.-e. s."

"I am so sorry to have kept you looking for some Greek lessons. I fully intended to begin again, but-how often one little 'but' spoils one's whole plans! My school lessons keep me so busy, and I have a great deal of sewing, besides clerking in a Department store on Saturdays and during vacations. Any 5 minutes I have I feel that I should study my Bible and learn to walk here among the temptations, of which college life is full, with Christ my Saviour, and to please Him. I'm afraid my Greek will have to be set aside until, may be, next summer; then if nothing happens, I intend to start in good earnest… Those who are studying I envy and admire, especially little E. who is quite as busy as I, and is not blessed with the good health that I have been given. How thankful I can be to Him who has blessed me so richly, and who has endured so much for me; how I should love and praise Him who first loved me! I know you'll be glad that W. has asked to remember our Saviour with us, as He requested. We are all very happy as he has for some time been trusting and loving Him.-L."

You may be sure, my dear L., I shall be very glad for those promised lesson papers, and I quite sympathize with you in all your work, but-there is a different kind of "but"-let us seek grace to help, and we will find the great mountain of difficulty becoming a plain.

"A few of us have planned to do a little gospel work on Christmas morning. We will go out about 5 o'clock in the morning, and go to as many streets as possible and try to stir some up with a few good gospel hymns, and put tracts at the doors. We did this last year, and had an enjoyable time early in the morning.-h. d. g."

A Motto For the Year

"When we read this month's Help and Food, we saw you asked for a motto for the coming year. My wife suggested Col. 3:17:'Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus'"

Another brother suggests Prov. 3:5,6:"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths."

Another suggestion is Phil. 4:13:"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

These are all good, and they blend nicely together:For Him, in His way, and by His strength. May we prove the reality of this in our daily life. Let us take all three and keep them as a kind of motto for the year.

The Question Box

Ques. 13.-"I studied on this question, in Nov. H. & F., for a long time, and even now cannot frame my thoughts into a helpful answer to it. Our brother gives us a nice thought in Dec. number. I find much help in 'digging' into God's word for answers."

Ques. 14.-The word translated "deep" in Luke 8:31 is the same word translated "bottomless pit" in Rev. 20:1, and both refer to the same place. See note, page 25, in the pamphlet "Hades and Eternal Punishment," by A. J. Pollock.

Ques. 15. "Turning to Rom. 8:20-26 (R. V.) we see that man has been made subject to vanity, having rebelled against God. It is God who has thus subjected him, and he is given over to bondage to Satan. But God has provided a way whereby He can set him free from this bondage. The Spirit joins His help in our infirmities (the same word as in Luke 13:11). Sickness is not spirit-possession, but is the result of the whole race being in bondage to Satan."

Ques. 16.-"Mark 9:38-40 is the record of one who cast out devils in Jesus' name. Acts 19:13 refers to some who belonged to a class of Jews who professed to cast out demons. History records that there were many who professed to have this power, called exorcists, but they did not use the name of Jesus."-e. w. b.

Answers to other questions are deferred.

Increased Circulation.

Please do not forget the word about getting new subscribers, in Dec. number. I wonder if a number of you couldn't get one new subscriber each, and if one or more could not join together to send Help and Food to some Christian you know, perhaps some preacher in your neighborhood.

United Prayer

8.-Pray for two young women, who professed to have been saved, but who have gone into the world.

9.-Pray for a young man who is interested in the Word of God, that he may come out boldly and confess the Lord.

Correspondence for "Y. B. D." Address,

S. R., c/o Loizeaux Bros., 1 E. 13th St., New York City.