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,o Devotional THE MAS In the still air the ni In the rough marbl To make the music a The Master's touch, Great Master, touch i Let not the music I Great Sculptor, hew j Hidden and lost, th Spare not the stroke! i^et there be naugh Complete thy purpost Thy perfect image ABIDINl Rev. David Smith, ir writes in the British We A. C.?"I am very an: L meaning of the term 'Ab know what that book yc do not wonder you are ] be a sample of its teach renounce any independe trying to think our own tions, or cultivate our f stantly look to Christ t*. torm His purposes in us fections in us." This is r ral doctrine. The locu: Abiding in Christ is Jof 24 may be profitably coi branches of the True Vi and nourished by its sap is this, that the branch its peculiar properties ; plum tree spreading its sunny wall. They grev those 011 this side produt on that side another. I the vines in South Afri< ease, "and it has been 1 cure, but by taking out new ones. The old so American root, and in same stem and branche! roots are new and able 1 the scriptural idea of Ai precise opposite of "reti of our own." Every hu derful thought of God, s the world on a peculiar 1 culiar destiny. This is udits iiic cuaraeierisucs to one dead level of unif present at a gathering impressed by the unifor were some children am something of the touch c the men and women wer onous brand of degrada "renounced any indepen is always the effect of ? r r THE PRESBYTERIAr* and Selections TER'S TOUCH. msic lies unheard; e beauty hides unseen; nd the beauty needs , the sculptor's chisel keen. is with thy skillful hand; that is in us die! ind polish us, nor let y form within us lie! Do with us as thou wilt! t unfinished, broken, marred; i that we may become ?thou, our God and Lord! ?Horatius Bonar. j IN CHRIST. i answer to a correspondent, ekly: <ious to know more about the aiding in Christ.' " 1 do not >u have been reading is, but I puzzled by- it if this quotation ing: "To abide in Christ is to nt life of our own, to give up thoughts, or form our resolueelings, and simply and con. l.L!-1. T TI- A. 1 I.I.- * A _ > iiiuiK. riis uiuugnis in us, to ?f to feel His emotions and afunwholesome and unscriptus classicus on the subject of in 15: 1-10; and Rom. 11: 17mpared with it. Believers are ne, grafted on the living stem, i. Now the wonder of grafting retains its own individuality, and qualities. I once saw a branches along the face of a v out of a common root, but red one sort of plum and those )r. Andrew Murray tells how ra aro attarlcpH hv a rr?r?t Hie. ound that there is no radical . the old roots and providing rt of grape is grafted on an course of time you have the 5 and fruit as before; but the to resist the disease." This is / biding in Christ, and it is the louncing any independent life man soul is a fresh and wont distinct personality sent into errand, and appointed to a pethe curse of sin, that it obliti of souls and reduces them all . ormdif a A ? T ? ? uiiiiiijr. JUI1IC L11I1C 1 Wits of poor outcasts, and I was m type of their faces. There ong them, and they retained >f God's hand; but the faces of e all stamped with one monottion. These poor sinners had dent life of their own." This iin, and grace operates in the I OF THE SOUTH. opposite direction. It conserv uality, develops his personality his peculiar aptitudes. Remen Vine and its branches: it is the indistinguishable?bundles of v ing branches are all unlike?no ter identical. What Christ reqt tion, but the consecration of o bcr how He gathered all sorts o days of His flesh, and employ* in the service of His Kingdom, impetuosity of Peter and the c; claims our whole nature, and, to His dominion. He energizes ploys it to its fullest capacity, to "renounce any independent only by abiding in Christ that live out its possibilities. Abidinj fair of painful self-renunciatior It begins with an act of self-: This is the grafting of th'e branc and thenceforth the sap of the into the branch. It is an act upon Christ, and it is this cons grafts us upon Christ, and it i< faith that keeps us united to ] faith is not always an active an the soul. You know how it is never ceases to love her child when he is out of her sight a brance. The fountain of love deep and full, and it overflows hiin or hears his voice or his absent, other thoughts occupy for him is' there. It slumbers, least touch, and leaps forth ii ments. And so with faith. I never dies. Even when we ar< we are trusting- Christ, and Hi our souls like the sap of the branches. This is the test of o our abiding in Him: Does the it breaks into our employment! our hearts and awaken gladnes pause at any moment and rejoi His and He is ours? You rerr at the close 6f his busy day: " just the same between us." T of our union with Christ if we ment in the midst of our emplc liAOrf c fr? TT1 m xirlfU ~1? A ivmi tu iv nun null gl<&U ciadUli A Catholic paper, The Mor American prelate's visit to Orl the recent "beatification" of Joj "Blessed Maid" as "the perso the French people to victory ? of Catholics in France are no supplication for the salvation < loved country. * * * The people are centered in her to s and God must soon intervene." of Rome tried her as a heretic at the stake. Now the same "i izes her and expects her to sa1 July 21, 1909. cs each man's individ, and gives full play to jber the parable of the dead branches that are withered twigs; the liv4..-.: 1 r i i\% 1^, uu icai, iiu ciustires is not the destrucurselves. You rememf men about Him in the ?d their various talents He found a use for the aution of Thomas. He if only we surrender it r every faculty and em- ( So far from our having life of our own," it is we realize our life, and * in Christ is not an afi and fretful solicitude, surrender?Conversion. :h upon the living stem, stem flows ceaselessly of faith that grafts us tant grasp of faith that ; the constant grasp of Him; but the grasp of d conscious exercise of with Cove. A mother . She loves him even nd out of her rememlo i,1 4- _i io in ni.1 ucai i, diwdys whenever she thinks of footstep. When he is her mind, yet her love but it awakens at the 1 caresses and endeart may slumber, but it e not thinking of Him, is grace is flowing into : living stem into the ?ur union to Christ and thought of Him, when >, send a thrill through is and desire? Can we ce to Know mat we are temfcer Bervgel's prayer Lord Jesus, things are here is no interruption can pause at any mo>yments and lift up our ance. ning Star, telling of an eans, on the occasion of tn of Arc, alludes to this n of her who once led md to whom the hearts ... j f * 1 w uutticu in praycriui of the faith in their behope of the clergy and ave the faith of France, The "infallible" church and witch and burnt her infallible" church canonve France for Rome!