A Christian ought to be a comforter, with kind words on his lips and sympathy in his heart; he should carry sunshine wherever he goes and diffuse happiness around him. If you see Jesus and abide in the light of his countenance habitually, your faces, your characters, your lives, will grow resplendent,

even without your knowing it. If the tender mercy of God has visited us, and done so much more for us than I can tell or than you can hear, let us ourselves exhibit tender mercy in our dealings with our fellow men. He lives most and lives best who is the means of imparting spiritual life to others.

God's promises are to the Christian as the granaries which Joseph filled against the years of famine, and he resorts to them without fear of their exhaustion. Blessed is he who can take the five barley loaves and fishes of promise and break them until

his five thousand necessities are all supplied, and he is able to gather up twelve baskets full of fragments. God's promises are better than man's performances; one word of God is worth more than the whole world.