A SMILE FOR JESUS.
BY MRS. M. RUSHMORE.
To speak to Jesus, is to believe in Him. I would say to my sisters in
affliction, let this be an evidence of your faith, that your heart is drawn to
speak to Him. And now, would you like to have me tell you something helpful
when clouds and doubts cast a shadow over the spirit? “Wear a smile, even when
alone, for Jesus knows, and He loves you.” This is praise, and seemeth a little
window to the soul, where the bright shining of His face enters in. Dear
sisters, let us ask Him to help us wear a smile for the sake of His sparing
mercies, and for the hope we have in Him. To the Christian there is nothing small; and a simple act, faithfully
performed, reveals, ofttimes, those things of the Kingdom which words cannot
express.
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THE
BODY OF SIN DESTROYED.-
There comes a time when od
having stripped us, and mortified us by the creatures to which we were
attached, exercises us inwardly, in order to draw us from ourselves. It is not
foreign support He then deprives us of, but that very self which was the center
of our love; all the rest we only loved for self, which God would remove. Cut
off the branch of a tree; so far from killing it, you add strength to the sap
and will see it bud with redoubled vigor, but go to the root of it and it will
languish, cast its leaves, and at length will die. Thus would God have our old
man completely destroyed.
-Fenelon.
