REVIVAL.
A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
RICHES.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Get rich, if you will—you take great risks. But Christianity does not say to any man, "You must be worth only so much, extend your business only so far." It says, "Use your riches for the glory of God." If they once usurp His place, woe to you!
If by the consecration of my earthly possessions to some extent, I can make the Christian- character practically more lovely, and illustrate, in my own case, that the highest enjoyments here are promoted by the free use of the good things intrusted to us, what so good use can I make of them?
