YET they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways;

YET

they take delight in approaching to God.

Isaiah Ivili.

D°

Are we not we take delight in approaching to God? too much absorbed in things that perish in the using? Have we not some weak points that need strengthening? Some vulnerable places in the wall of character, where the tempter has made a breach before, and will again, if we are not on our guard? Do we all live as we believe? I know one who does not, and who would keep Lent with you, in the hope that it may help him in coming a little nearer to living as he believes, all the year round. So this Lent shall be to us, not a season of darkness but of Light, of getting and giving Light; and instead of sackcloth and ashes, let us put on the Garments of Praise.

"Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward."

SUPPOSE WE SAY ΤΟ

OURSELVES:

NOT A

DAY OF LENT SHALL PASS IN WHICH WE DO NOT READ SOME WORD OF JESUS, SOME PRECEPT, SOME ACT OF MERCY AND OF LOVE; THAT SO WE MAY TOUCH THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT AND BE "HEALED IMMEDIATELY."