Prayer sometimes tarries like a petitioner at the gate, until the King comes forth to fill her bosom with the blessings which she seeks. The Lord, when he has given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered his servants' voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky.

Unanswered petitions are not unheard. By and by your suit shall prevail. Can you not be content to wait a little? Will not your Lord's time be better than your time? By and by he will comfortably appear, to your soul's joy, and make you put away the sackcloth and ashes of long waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition.

We must ever keep in mind that we are only channels for grace, we have no accumulated stores, but depend upon the continual flow of the divine stream. We must have an abiding union with the Fountain of all good, or we shall soon run dry; and become like

the dry beds of mountain torrents filled with earth and stones. Blessed is the promise concerning the living water that it shall always flow; "in winter and summer shall it be."