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GOD'S GUIDANCE—INFINITY.

Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.


My faith is, that there is a greater amount of revelation given to guide each man by the principles laid down in the Bible, by conscience, and by providence, than most men are aware of. It is not the light which is defective, it is an eye to see it.


Show me what I have to do,
Every hour my strength renew;
Let me live a life of faith,
Let me die Thy people's death.

Newton.

   Guide us, Love, Peace, and Grace!
      Guide us divinest Light!
Through all our work and care and woe;
Through all the dizzy joys we know,
Through the "dark valley" where we go,
   Guide us Love's dearest light,
      To-day, to-night.


Like His emblem the sun, He has a fullness of light in Himself. Were a thousand million more creatures to crowd the earth, that sun has light and heat for them all; and in God there is a fullness of good infinitely greater than the whole creation or the most capacious of His creatures can require. He is a sun and shield; He will give grace and glory; "no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly."