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 By 
 Virginia Breckinridge Bates 
 
 THE religious PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 192 MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO 
 
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Copyright 1906 
 By Virginia Breckinridge Bates 
 
 PRKSS OF 
 AITKEN «c CURTIS COMPANY 
 CHICAGO 
 
Holy Ghost, unerring guide. 
 Lead me^ lest I turn aside. 
 Let my will so yielded be, 
 I can hear Thee speak to me. 
 
TO THE MEMBERS 
 
 of the 
 
 WEDNESDAY CLASS OF ST. LOUIS 
 
 and the 
 
 TUESDAY CLASS OF CHICAGO 
 
 with deep affection and with the prayer that 
 
 it may carry a helpful thought to each 
 
 heart and life, this little book 
 
 is dedicated. 
 
THE STORY 
 
 This is not a treatise, but a practical talk 
 — a paper prepared and put into permanent 
 form by request. It was read before a young 
 woman's class or club, which has had a thou- 
 sand or more members and has continued 
 with uninterrupted weekly meetings during 
 a long term of years. 
 
 The class was originated by two little girls, 
 who, having become interested in religious 
 matters through evangelistic meetings, were 
 praying together in their own homes. 
 
 Branch classes have been formed and the 
 members are widely scattered, filling the vari- 
 ous avenues of usefulness and of influence. 
 Among them are mothers of families, daugh- 
 
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ters at home, missionaries, wives of ministers, 
 teachers, kindergartners, and many others. 
 Some are actively connected with the Young 
 Women's Christian Association and the Order 
 of the King's Daughters. The children of 
 some of the charter members are old enough 
 to enjoy the meetings. The number of Sun- 
 day school children that have been taught 
 by the members would probably reach into 
 the thousands. 
 
 There are in connection with the class an 
 organized system of benevolence and a cir- 
 culating library. 
 
 A program has been introduced containing 
 subjects for each week of the year. 
 
 The subjects treated in the meetings are 
 exclusively religious, and for years the mem- 
 bers united in repeating the following prayer: 
 
 "Oh, that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and 
 enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be 
 with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from 
 evil that it may not grieve me." 
 
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 GOD'S dealings with us are 
 strange. Even in small 
 things, we are amazed oft- 
 times at His methods, and 
 the fact that I am present- 
 ing this theme to you to-day, 
 my dear friends, is an evidence of it. It is, 
 in a way, an answer to my strong cries in 
 prayer to Him, that He would teach me to 
 know His voice in my own soul, to discern it 
 among the many voices there, and to obey it. 
 In studying for you, I have learned deep 
 lessons for myself, and I long and pray that 
 I may be able to impart them to you. 
 
 In sending you the list of subjects, for 
 which you asked, I did not know that I should 
 be requested to expound this one to you, 
 else I should not have dared to send it. But 
 is it not the most essential question in life, 
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 ^'^ — ^life itself, really, — since to know God **is 
 *"P life eternal," and without this knowledge we 
 are wandering — aimless — with no assurance 
 for this life, and none for the life everlasting. 
 
 As it had been the theme of my own long- 
 ings and my prayers, I thought it would 
 help you to consider it, as I had done, to 
 ponder over and pray about it, hoping for 
 growing light. This light we must seek until 
 we find; this knowledge we are under the 
 deepest obligation to acquire, since life, pres- 
 ent and future, Christian character and 
 Christian influence depend upon our obtain- 
 ing it. 
 
 What difference, then, does it make to you 
 or to me whether or not we know and heed the 
 voice of God — as especially spoken to us — in 
 our souls.'* Ah, my precious friends, it makes 
 every difference — all difference ! Therein lies 
 the very secret of life and hope, or the very 
 sting — hidden but real — the beginning of fail- 
 ure and death. Then we do well to ponder 
 deeply and to know this voice, in the obeying of 
 
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 which is embodied the very essence of success *^^ 
 and blessing. Is it not a wonderful truth that ^<=^ 
 God condescends to speak to us at all? And 
 as He does, should it not be the aim of our 
 existence to hear and to comprehend His 
 voice? 
 
 Our heavenly Father guides us in many 
 ways, though all of the examples we could 
 give should probably be grouped under one of 
 the three following heads: He guides us by 
 His Holy Word— the Bible, by the Holy Spirit, 
 and by His providence. Yet we cannot pur- 
 sue the argument — in each division of the 
 topic — logically to its close, as their lines cross 
 each other at times, finally blending. Thus 
 without the interpretation of the Holy Spirit, 
 the Word of God, in its deeper meaning, is 
 incomprehensible to man; while the Spirit 
 generally uses the words of the Bible as the 
 medium of His communication to the heart 
 of man; and the providences of God are inex- 
 plicable without the light of both the Word of 
 God and the Spirit of God. 
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 ^^ You will remember how our blessed Saviour, 
 *^^c in His hour of temptation, repeated again and 
 again, *'It is written" — quoting the Word of 
 God to the adversary. His example is tran- 
 scendent! We have — we need — no higher 
 proof that God speaks to the soul, through 
 His written word. 
 
 And how many manifestations we have of 
 His speaking thus in our daily experience. 
 The Christians who know God's Word and 
 are familiar with its contents, looking to the 
 Spirit to reveal its meaning to them, need not 
 to be told this. "VVTien I began to think upon 
 our theme of to-day verse after verse came to 
 me, a veritable throng, bearing directly upon 
 it and throwing clear light, showing that God 
 does speak to the soul through His Word. 
 
 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a 
 light unto my path." The Holy Spirit " shall 
 take " of the things of God, and " shew them 
 unto us." Foremost among the verses that 
 came to me was the following, which is an exact 
 Biblical answer to the subject of our lesson. 
 
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 The question we ask is : " How may I know 
 
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 the voice of God in my soul?" The answer ^? 
 
 is : "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the 
 mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a 
 living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, 
 which is your reasonable service. And be not 
 conformed to this world; but be ye trans- 
 formed by the renewing of your mind, that 
 ye may prove what is that good, and accept- 
 able, and perfect will of God." 
 
 It is the will of God that we wish to know 
 in the voice. It is for the purpose of indicat- 
 ing His will that He speaks, and in order that 
 our will may be transformed into the likeness 
 of His own, and that our actions may follow 
 our renewed mind and will. 
 
 Part of another verse is almost as clear a 
 response to our question. "Then shall we 
 know if we follow on to know." It is not for 
 the still small voice we are listening, as did 
 Elijah when he stood forth, we like the scenic 
 effect of the wind, the earthquake and the 
 fire, but God was in none of them. As God 
 
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 ^" manifests Himself to us, even so must we 
 *^P accept Him, else we cannot receive Him at 
 ^^^l all. He has foreordained that in the still 
 small voice — the voice of the Spirit recalling 
 His word — He will reveal Himself to man, 
 and this voice in the soul is inaudible, unless 
 we listen, and stifled if we fail to obey. To 
 follow on means to obey as we know ! Each 
 known wish of God eagerly heard and fulfilled 
 gives a keener ear for His spiritual communi- 
 cations, and a renewed aptness and zeal in 
 obeying the next command. 
 
 May I plead with you a moment from my 
 own experience.^ Personally I have suffered 
 pain which I call anguish, because of failures, 
 long ago past. Out of the years comes the 
 memory of some lack of thoughtfulness, some 
 selfishness, some wrong done; and how often 
 is this repeated now in our daily life! No 
 matter how trifling the circumstances may 
 seem at the time, or how grave, nothing is 
 unimportant when the element of right or 
 wrong is to be considered. 
 
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 Oh, how I should love to save you from this ^•^ 
 suffering, and to lead you once and forever to *^ 
 ask, "What does the voice say, what is God*s ^^'J^* 
 will in this case, what does the trend of the 
 Bible teach me, how does the Spirit apply the 
 teaching to my soul in this instance? Not 
 what I want to do; let me not even consider 
 this question, but only and always what I 
 ought to do." Only in this path are happi- 
 ness and safety. However narrow it may 
 seem to one outside, it is the only way of 
 peace and righteousness. It recalls the sacred 
 words: "An highway shall be there, and a 
 way, and it shall be called The Way of holi- 
 ness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but 
 it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, 
 though fools, shall not err therein." 
 
 God is the great source of power, of force, 
 of helpfulness, of hope. We are standing in 
 a place of danger. Few persons realize this, 
 and when I say realize, I mean few are so 
 convinced of their peril as to take the practi- 
 cal means of protection and safety. God, as 
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 ^'^ He bestows Himself upon us is the only all- 
 "^P powerful helper and protector. 
 ^OUl \Yg. meet each day individually as it comes, 
 not the whole life in one mass, and on the 
 one hand God has warned us of its dangers, 
 and on the other hand has revealed to us His 
 power to succor us. His voice in the Word 
 promises this, through the Holy Spirit He 
 bestows His strength upon us, and in the 
 providences of life He shows us our practical 
 needs and the all-sufficient help which he 
 gives. Since all help comes from God, the 
 first important duty of each day is to go to 
 God and be equipped for that day. 
 
 The day is the life in miniature. If God 
 speaks to us through the Bible, and by laying 
 His words up in our minds, it becomes possi- 
 ble for the Holy Spirit to recall them to our 
 memory later, then, the first duty of each day 
 is to prepare for that day, in all it may bring, 
 by hearing God's voice distinctly in His Word, 
 by being silent before Him and by praying the 
 Spirit to open our hearts to receive His truth. 
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 When in my own experience I feel I must *^^ 
 get great help from our Heavenly Father, I ^^ 
 first implore the intercession of Christ Jesus ^*^^^^ 
 our Lord and Saviour, who *'ever liveth to 
 make intercession for us." Then I ask the 
 Holy Spirit to pray with me, for He " maketh 
 intercession for us with groanings which can- 
 not be uttered." To get into close personal 
 relations with God — to comprehend His voice 
 as He speaks to us in the soul — this is the 
 key note of true Christian living, and it is 
 just here that many Christians fail. They 
 start out to meet the battle of life utterly un- 
 prepared. They do not calculate the abso- 
 lute disadvantage at which they distinctly 
 place themselves. 
 
 There is a burden of life which must be 
 borne, and man's strength is inadequate for 
 it. The cares of life alone will crush a man 
 unaided, and God's voice has so plainly said, 
 "Cast all your care upon Me." "Be careful 
 for nothing; but in everything by prayer and 
 supplication with thanksgiving, let your re- 
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 ^^ quests be made known unto God. And the 
 >a. f peace of God, which passeth all understand- 
 ^UUi jjjg^ shall keep your hearts and minds through 
 Christ Jesus." Only in prayer — real prayer 
 — not the vague repetition that we call 
 prayer, but the prayer that lays hold upon 
 God, can we obtain this help. " Let him take 
 hold of My strength that he may make peace 
 with Me; and he shall make peace with Me." 
 Besides the cares of life, which cover all of 
 our duties and responsibilities, there are the 
 temptations of life, and the enemy to meet. 
 The world, the flesh, and the devil are not 
 unknown to us in their baleful influences, nor 
 has the heavenly voice left us without sug- 
 gestion in regard to them. "The fashion of 
 this world passeth away." "What is a man 
 profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and 
 lose his own soul? or what shall a man give 
 in exchange for his soul?" "This night thy 
 soul shall be required of thee." "Let him 
 that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he 
 fall." "There is a way that seemeth right 
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 unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways "^ 
 of death. Even in laughter the heart is •J;^ 
 sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heavi- S^'UUi 
 ness." Keep thyself "unspotted from the 
 world." "Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill 
 the lusts thereof." 
 
 And concerning the arch tempter, the chief 
 adversary of our souls, we have been strictly 
 charged: "Neither give place to the devil." 
 "Resist the devil and he will flee from you." 
 With some of God's devoted people it is one 
 of the strongest motives in resisting the power 
 of the devil that they have a deep-seated aver- 
 sion to pleasing him, and to becoming his 
 dupes and slaves. From a child I have felt 
 this keenly. Some say they do not believe in 
 his demoniacal power, but they have forgot- 
 ten our Saviour's encounter with the evil one 
 and the intensity of the admonition to us 
 which the Holy Word contains. We have 
 been forewarned that we simply cannot meet 
 him alone and unequipped. "Put on the 
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 ^*^ whole armour of God that ye may be able 
 
 "^<^ to stand against the wiles of the devil, for 
 
 "IJUi ^g wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
 
 against principalities, against powers, against 
 
 the rulers of the darkness of this world, 
 
 against spiritual wickedness in high places." 
 
 When, therefore, a man dares any morning 
 to start out upon his life, unfortified against 
 care and temptation, how can he expect to 
 ** stand" in his place, much less to 'run the 
 race that is set before" him? How can he 
 hope in all the distractions and perils of the 
 way, to hear the still small voice of God, 
 within the soul, unless in the morning — when 
 the soul is empty and receptive — he cares 
 enough to establish the connection with God 
 and to continue it throughout the day, this 
 union begun in faith, that ** faith which cometh 
 by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God"? 
 
 But above all other fears, to the devout 
 heart, is that of dishonoring its Lord. When 
 He comes to us in His Word as the tender 
 Shepherd, laying down His life for His wan- 
 
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 dering sheep, it breaks our hearts to remem- *^ 
 ber our straying away from Him. And for *^ 
 those of us who are within His tender fold, let ™"W* 
 us remember that the test of our being His 
 own sheep is that we know and follow His 
 voice. "And the sheep hear His voice: and 
 He calleth His own sheep by name, and lead- 
 eth them out. And when He putteth forth 
 His own sheep. He goeth before them, and 
 the sheep follow Him; for they know His 
 voice. And a stranger will they not follow, 
 but will flee from him ; for they know not the 
 voice of strangers." 
 
 These last words will reveal to you, my dear 
 friends, why I have so longed to recognize 
 the voice of God in my own soul. For a long 
 time past — it may be for years — this part of 
 the verse has come to me as a refrain: "My 
 sheep know My voice." Its cadence has 
 sounded in my soul, calling me to a clearer 
 discernment of God*s voice and will, and to 
 a closer following. 
 
 My belief is that we should yield to the con- 
 
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 trol of our Heavenly Father at every point of 
 
 "^F our way, and the deep grief of failing to do so 
 
 is that we impair the usefulness of our own 
 lives, wherever our path diverges from the 
 way He leads. 
 
 And how it crushes our hearts to feel we 
 are dishonoring our Lord. We are all con- 
 vinced surely that we do this in small things, 
 if, indeed, there are any small wrongs. Each 
 failure in the life of a Christian seems a reflec- 
 tion upon his God. God has promised to keep 
 us if we will look to Him and trust Him and 
 hear His voice. He has said : " He is able to 
 keep us from falHng," and *'to make all grace 
 abound toward us"; and our failures tend to 
 make others doubt His power. Then we be- 
 come stumbling blocks in their way, and bring 
 discredit upon our Master, while if we will 
 let Him lead us, the evidence of His power 
 in us will draw others to Him. 
 
 The entire life should come under His juris- 
 diction. The Lord Himself makes this plain. 
 " O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known 
 
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 me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine **^ 
 uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar ^? 
 off. Thou compassest my path and my lying ^''^***' 
 down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 
 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, 
 O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether." And 
 realizing our sins and shortcomings, we cry, 
 ''Search me, O God, and know my heart: try 
 me, and know my thoughts: and see if there 
 be any wicked way in me, and lead me in 
 the way everlasting." 
 
 We hear men of the world, who are not 
 overscrupulous, in their idea of right, speak 
 lightly of the joys of a good conscience. This 
 is when no real danger threatens them; for it 
 is true that " Conscience does make cowards 
 of us all," and why? God's voice is especially 
 heard in the conscience of man : " I know that 
 Thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I wash 
 myself with snow water, and make my hands 
 never so clean." Not all consciences are en- 
 lightened, some are "seared with a hot iron," 
 "even their mind and conscience is defiled." 
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 ^"^ Yet even these seem at times to be pierced 
 ***^c to the quick. You remember the scene, when 
 ^OIU Q^j. Lord stooped down and wrote on the 
 ground, saying: "He that is without sin 
 among you, let him first cast a stone." "And 
 they which heard it, being convicted by their 
 own conscience went out one by one, begin- 
 ning at the eldest even unto the last." Not 
 one failed to feel the sting. But Christ calls 
 His own followers to a good conscience — the 
 deepest joy that one can experience on this 
 earth. "Our rejoicing is this, the testimony 
 of our conscience." "Beloved, if our hearts 
 condemn us not, then have we confidence 
 toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we 
 receive of Him because we keep His com- 
 mandments, and do those things that are 
 pleasing in His sight." 
 
 What a clear picture is this of mutual con- 
 fidence. The Eternal King of Heaven holds 
 converse with man, assuring him that He is 
 pleased with his conduct and will especially 
 grant his requests! The Holy Spirit speaks 
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 to the consciences of men always along the 
 Hnes of the revealed Word of God and in full ^^ 
 harmony with it. The peculiar mission of SJ'UUl 
 the Spirit is "to bring to the remembrance" 
 of men the Word of God. Therefore when 
 the Spirit speaks to the soul, through the con- 
 science, His voice is always in unison with 
 Scripture, otherwise it is not the voice of the 
 Spirit. We cannot trust the unenlightened 
 conscience. As the North Star guides the 
 mariners unerringly, so it is the Bible alone, 
 the revealed Word of God, that guides the 
 life of man aright. The mariner's compass 
 must be tested by the North Star, the watch 
 by the sun dial, the conscience by the Holy 
 Book, made plain by the Spirit of God. 
 
 Christians do not all realize that not only 
 are they permitted to have the joy of a good 
 and an enlightened conscience, but they are 
 commanded to have this priceless possession. 
 If any doubt it, the proof is readily given in 
 the following clear commands : " Let us draw 
 near with a true heart in full assurance of 
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^^ faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an 
 ^P evil conscience.*' "Herein do I exercise my- 
 ^^^^ self to have a conscience void of offense toward 
 God and toward man." "Now the end of 
 this commandment is charity out of a pure 
 heart and of a good conscience." "War a 
 good warfare; holding faith and a good con- 
 science." "How much more shall the blood 
 of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit 
 offered Himself without spot to God, purge 
 your conscience from dead works to serve the 
 living God?" *'My conscience also bearing 
 me witness in the Holy Ghost." That con- 
 science which is pure before God is enlight- 
 ened by the Spirit. 
 
 Some one will say : " How may I be assured 
 that God is speaking to me, even when I think 
 I hear His admonitions.^" Being unaccus- 
 tomed to listen for His voice, we do not recog- 
 nize it readily, and some of us must go farther 
 and acknowledge to our shame that, at times, 
 we do not wish to recognize God's voice, lest 
 our plans be interfered with. We are starting 
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 on our way, and do the act contemplated, or 
 that we should at once attend to something 
 neglected. If we wish to know whether or 
 not this is God's warning suggestion, the way 
 to find out is plain: Ask! Stop where you 
 are, and ask Him— pray ! It takes but a mo- 
 ment to lift the heart to God, and we have 
 countless promises that reply will be given. 
 Many of us stifle such convictions, and hasten 
 on our way, sometimes to great danger, from 
 which, in His infinite mercy, God often de- 
 livers us. But there is a distressing descrip- 
 tion of those who utterly reject God's admoni- 
 tions and go on heedlessly in their own evil 
 way. *'I know thy abode, and thy going out, 
 and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 
 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult 
 is come up into mine ears, therefore, I will 
 put mine hook in thy nose, and my bridle in 
 thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way 
 by which thou camest." 
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 upon a certain course, and within us comes a 
 vague sense, that we had better not proceed *j^^ 
 
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 ^" God does not deal thus harshly with us with- 
 "^? out warning. " I will instruct thee and teach 
 thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will 
 guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the 
 horse and mule which have no understand- 
 ing, whose mouth must be held in with bit 
 and bridle." Yet in spite of God's commands 
 and promises we often persist in going on as 
 Balaam did, until he was confronted by the 
 angel with the drawn sword: "Behold I went 
 out to withstand thee, because thy way is 
 perverse before me.'* 
 
 How dare we attempt to go recklessly on, 
 "Lest haply we be found even to fight 
 against God." "What are we that we could 
 withstand God?" That which He ordains 
 we "cannot overthrow." How much simpler, 
 safer, nobler to be as the little child, who at 
 the first suggestion that God was speaking to 
 him said : " Speak, Lord, for thy servant hear- 
 eth," and having heard heeded. To refuse to 
 heed God's voice, speaking to us through the 
 enlightened conscience, to persist in doing, or 
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neglecting to do that about which this intier ^^ 
 monitor warns us, is to "resist" and to "grieve" ^P 
 the Holy Spirit of God! S>OUl 
 
 Our Saviour was in close union with the 
 Holy Spirit and led by Him. Two notable 
 examples were: when the Spirit came upon 
 Him at baptism, and when He was led of the 
 Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. 
 Of Christ it was written, "God giveth not 
 the Spirit by measure unto Him." 
 
 The most deeply spiritual converse that our 
 God ever has with us, is when the ** Spirit 
 beareth witness with our spirit that we are 
 the children of God." A striking illustration 
 of this occurred recently, when a young col- 
 lege girl, being present during a conversation 
 about the Holy Spirit, said sadly: "I think I 
 have never truly heard His voice!" But 
 when she was asked if He had not witnessed 
 with her spirit that she was the child of God, 
 a deep light shone in her eyes, and she bowed 
 her head in reverent acquiescence. 
 
 Another young woman, who had finished 
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 ^^ her academic course, hearing a similar con- 
 "^c versation, said Hghtly: "Oh, I do not believe 
 ^"***' as I used, I am taking the scientifie view ! " — 
 forgetting that "without Christ was not any- 
 thing made that was made " — and unmindful 
 that if she had given up her Saviour, she "had 
 done despite to the Spirit of Grace" and 
 " had trodden under foot the Son of God, and 
 had counted the blood of the covenant, where- 
 with we are sanctified, an unholy thing." She 
 had remained true to her childhood's mother- 
 love, but was too frail to stem the tide of 
 adverse influence and hold fast to her early 
 faith in her Creator — ^her God — her Saviour, 
 for "There is none other name under heaven 
 given among men, whereby we must be saved." 
 Christ "appeared to put away sin by the sac- 
 rifice of himself," for "without shedding of 
 blood is no remission." 
 
 Even more blameworthy than this young 
 girl are those who despoiled her of her child- 
 hood's inheritance. Faith, more than a "good 
 name in man and woman" "is the immedi- 
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 ate jewel of their souls," and he or she ^" 
 that "filched" from her this priceless gem **};c 
 
 "Robbed her of that which not enriched him 
 And left her poor indeed." 
 
 "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones 
 that believe in me, it were better for him that 
 a millstone were hanged about his neck, and 
 that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." 
 
 Youth needs the tender, watchful care of 
 those whom " the Holy Spirit hath made over- 
 seers, to feed the church of God, which He 
 hath purchased with His own blood." 
 
 More sad it seems that we should turn from 
 the Holy One, when He is so gracious, and 
 His gifts are so free. Even the presence of 
 the Spirit is a gift — not earned by us : " Your 
 Heavenly Father shall give the Holy Spirit to 
 them that ask Him. "And it is by" the Spirit that 
 we are sealed unto the day of redemption." 
 
 We hear a great deal of the Spirit-filled life, 
 but surely only that life is filled with the Spirit, 
 which in every direction manifests the fruit 
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 of the Spirit. " If we live in the Spirit let us 
 also walk in the Spirit.'* Christians are far 
 too well satisfied, to have an occasional evi- 
 dence of the presence of the Spirit, while great 
 territories of their inner nature lie, as it were, 
 in darkness unexplored by the light of God, 
 unyielded to the sway of the Spirit. 
 
 The Christian who continues to give way 
 to irritability or ill temper, surely cannot de- 
 ceive herself into believing that she has a 
 Spirit-filled life. In that part of her nature 
 the Spirit is simply not reigning. There may 
 be other regions conquered by Him, held by 
 his loving sway. She may be unselfish and 
 prompt, orderly and neat, and may be more or 
 less faithful in searching the Scriptures and in 
 prayer, but in the place, small or great, where 
 sin reigns, the voice of the Spirit is not obeyed 
 and the conscience is not pure before God. 
 
 Nor could one claim to be following the 
 voice of the Spirit, whose faults were the re- 
 verse of those named. Persons who are care- 
 less, untidy, thoughtless, forgetful, discon- 
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 tented, unforgiving, vain or selfish, false or *^**^ 
 full of pride and self-will, or those who slander •JJc 
 or who **take up a reproach against" others, "'^Wl 
 surely cannot think they are harkening to the 
 Spirit, though their conscience may be sore, 
 almost to the touch, with His continuous re- 
 proachful suggestions, beseeching them to 
 amend their ways. This is, I believe, not in- 
 frequently the case with believers, who have 
 not yet realized their possibilities, and the 
 infinite power of God — to aid them even in 
 their besetting frailties. 
 
 A joyful acquiescence in our life, and a real 
 effort to meet it, in Christ's strength, however 
 hard it may seem, is one of the proofs of 
 hearing the Spirit's voice. God says : " What- 
 soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy 
 might," and, "Be ye perfect even as your 
 Father which is in Heaven is perfect." With 
 the growth in faith and love to God, comes 
 also to the yielded life, an increasing exact- 
 ness in the everyday tasks, and this we should 
 pray for and expect. 
 
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 ^•^ The Holy Spirit is the great character 
 "^J^ builder. It is through His grace, that we are 
 ^'^^ enabled " with all diligence to add to our faith, 
 virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness, 
 patience;" — and this is the "patience which 
 through tribulation worketh experience and 
 hope." Through the power of the Spirit we 
 abandon the old habits and establish the new, 
 and what is character but the accumulation 
 and amalgamation of habits of faith — thought 
 — feeling — speech and action. 
 
 Where the Spirit leads there is neither error 
 nor regret, and if we are led impulsively to do 
 something, feeling we are led of the Spirit, as 
 some misguided persons often are, and later 
 find we must apologize for our error, the proof 
 is conclusive that not the Holy Spirit of God, 
 but another influence guided us. God's 
 Spirit is always right in His guidance, always 
 in accordance with Scripture and therefore 
 not to be repented of. 
 
 Life has many perplexing places, my dear 
 friends, and my heart is full of tenderness 
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 and sympathy for you. I wish I could be ^^ 
 near and put my arms about you, when these *^ 
 times come to you, and let you know how my ^'''***' 
 heart yearns for you. 
 
 The decisions of life are the hardest part of 
 all, and there is no way to escape them; they 
 must be met. Yet we need never meet them 
 alone. God is always near with plain prom- 
 ises. He commands us to "ask," to "seek," 
 and He promises to be near and to answer. 
 But beware that you hear His voice aright, — 
 not by some detached portion of Scripture, 
 found at random by opening the Bible where 
 it chances to part; not by such lottery does 
 He lead His children along the right path, but 
 by the same still small voice, the Spirit re- 
 vealing the Word. We have sometimes to 
 wait, and in cases of deep need we may have 
 to wait long — so long that our patience is 
 deepened and our faith strengthened, but I 
 will quote to you a verse that has helped me 
 at such times: "Who is among you that fear- 
 eth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His 
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 ^*^ servant, that walketh in darkness and hath 
 "^^ no light? let him trust in the name of the 
 ™01U Lord and stay upon his God." 
 
 And let us always remember that: "The 
 steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord," 
 and that He says : " Ye shall hear a word be- 
 hind you saying this is the way, walk ye in it, 
 when ye turn to the right hand and to the left." 
 
 These promises are for our assurance, but 
 the way that God usually guides His people is 
 by the trend of the teachings of the Bible, re- 
 vealing God's will and made plain to us by 
 the Spirit of God in the soul. Little by little 
 we learn to understand God's mind and will 
 concerning the matter in question, and our 
 own wills acquiesce in His. If you should 
 ask me how I have been guided, I could but 
 say that in my deepest perplexity, I have 
 prayed, read my Bible and waited upon the 
 Lord ; and when at last I have seen my way it 
 has been shown me so simply and naturally, 
 so gradually, that I almost wondered why I 
 had hesitated. Nevertheless I know that the 
 
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 power to act and go foreward, in any given 
 
 hindered is also a painful reality. God alone 
 can help in such cases. Then it is that abiding 
 faith, fervent prayer, strong cries, eager and 
 continuous study of the Bible will avail, 
 appealing to the Holy Spirit of God to 
 enlighten us. 
 
 I asked a most devout Christian woman, a 
 dear friend, about her view of God's voice to 
 us and His guidance, and she said the diflBculty 
 often was that we did not come before Him 
 silent so that we could hear Him and empty 
 so that we could be filled with His Spirit and 
 He could lead us. It is only the empty bucket 
 that can be filled with pure water. 
 
 Oftentimes we come only because we are 
 in trouble and we are not accustomed to dis- 
 cerning the inner voice. We cannot hear it, 
 because we do not recognize it. Our spiritual 
 sense is dulled from disuse and past heedless- 
 ness. The voice of the Spirit in such a soul 
 reminds us of the piteous wail of the bird, 
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 case, is a reality, and that the feeling of being ^^ 
 
 ^otU 
 
^*^ warning away Ulysses and his mariners from 
 "^? the fatal shore. Only one of them heard and 
 9UUi heeded the cry. The earth-sounds so en- 
 grossed the rest that they heeded not and 
 were drawn on to their ruin. 
 
 Our age is not characterized by intent lis- 
 tening. The picture of the Indian scout, so 
 vividly described, is a strange one to us : lying 
 upon the ground for hours or days, uncon- 
 scious of the passage of time, abnormally keen 
 to hear or see. History gives us a touching 
 example of eager listening: we see again a 
 crouching female figure, "her ear unto the 
 ground, " we hear her shout of triumph amid 
 the despair and the din of battle — as she alone 
 recognizes reinforcements from afar: 
 
 "O, dinna ye hear 
 The slogan far awa? 
 The McGregors, — O, I ken it weel; 
 It's the grandest o' them a' !" 
 
 These homely examples may help us to 
 realize that we have not thus eagerly awaited 
 succor from our Heavenly Saviour, and when 
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 we do, we shall recognize His first gentle ^^ 
 approach. ^P 
 
 All along the dangerous way we must be ^^'J^ 
 praying. Nehemiah is a strong example of 
 this, as he stood in the presence of the king, 
 while the noble, courageous Joshua is a warn- 
 ing to us all; brave and devout in the great 
 onflow of his life, at one time of crucial testing, 
 he simply used his own judgment, failed to 
 "inquire of God" for light, and brought dis- 
 grace and disaster upon himself and God's 
 people. 
 
 God always guides His children who are 
 willing to be guided. We have but to place 
 our hand in His and He will lead us unerringly. 
 But let us remember that "there can be no 
 new light upon a Divine command" — even 
 our strong cries to Heaven cannot change a 
 plain statement of God's Word. 
 
 The religion of eTesus Christ is no vagary ; it 
 
 is a reality. It is more penetrating than all of 
 
 the sciences, — "piercing even to the dividing 
 
 asunder of the soul and spirit and is a discerner 
 
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 of the thoughts and intents of the heart.** It 
 "^<P has jurisdiction over each act, each thought of 
 
 ^oul 
 
 the hfe. Nothing is too small to come under 
 its dominion. I was surprised when talking 
 to a fervent Christian to find that he always 
 considered questions of health, carelessness in 
 taking cold, imprudence in diet, and the like, 
 as wrongs against the family only, and not as 
 coming under the notice or the judgment of 
 God. This seems a grave mistake, for all the 
 life may hinge upon some cold taken, or some 
 indigestion grown into an illness. Did not the 
 fate of nations hang upon the cackling of 
 geese in one instance, and keeping the powder 
 dry in another.^ 
 
 We meet people with odd views, and if they 
 are shared by any of us, it would help us to 
 consider them. There is an idea entertained 
 by many which is fatalism, and not the teach- 
 ing of God's Word. It would indicate that no 
 effort on our part is needful, that whatever 
 course we pursue, God is with us, aiding us, 
 but this is distinctly wrong. When you or 
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 I go stubbornly on our way — the way of evil — ^^ 
 He certainly does not guide us. If we wish *"^ 
 to be coworkers with God, we must avoid ^'^•** 
 drifting on the one hand, and self-will on the 
 other, and must ask guidance. To be led of 
 God is a reality, only to be achieved by gen- 
 uine spiritual union with Him. 
 
 Our Master was also guided by the provi- 
 dences of God. His great miracles, manifest- 
 ing His power over man and nature, were 
 elicited by the conditions of life about Him. 
 Illustrations of this are the stilling of the 
 storm, the healing of disease and the satisfy- 
 ing of the hungry multitude. 
 
 We, too, are both led and controlled by the 
 providences of God, but we must look to God 
 for His own interpretation in all apparent dis- 
 asters, lest we think we discern in some hap- 
 pening a meaning they were not intended to 
 convey. It is dangerous to take our own view 
 of providences, unaided by the light from God's 
 Word and His Spirit, and even then, we must 
 often wait, simply trusting, for He has said: 
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 in "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou 
 "*P shalt know hereafter." Frequently in His 
 ^ulU deahngs with us. He controls us by closing a 
 door against us, or in a reverse way He leads 
 us, by opening to us a plain and suitable 
 opportunity. God enlightens our intellect, 
 clears our judgment and strengthens our 
 purpose. The whole being is under His sway, 
 if we look to Him and trust Him. 
 
 I have a theory that earnest teachers of 
 God often fail to help others as they 
 might, because they do not reveal to them their 
 own personal experience. Naturally, what we 
 have ourselves gone through is better known, 
 more real and more vivid to us than anything 
 else. This, a humble man thinks too poor to 
 offer to others, yet it is just this, the thing 
 he knows, that we want. I tried to get for 
 you, from Christian friends who are truly liv- 
 ing epistles of God, some of these vital experi- 
 ences, and I value them more than I can tell 
 you and I have myself profited by them. Mak- 
 ing your need an excuse, I learned from these 
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 friends things I had not understood, although ^"^ 
 I have known some of them for years, and I ^^ 
 prize what they told me as hidden treasure. "IJWl 
 
 These friends, whom I quote, may truly 
 be termed successful Christians, otherwise I 
 should not have wished to consult them. It 
 is to those whom we deem successful that we 
 apply for advice, not to those who are incom- 
 petent, discouraged, "down-in-the-mouth," as 
 realistic speakers describe them. When we 
 say successful, we do not necessarily mean in 
 money -making or in the acquisition of worldly 
 power; that man is deemed successful who 
 attains what he seeks, if the things sought for 
 are worthy. St. Paul, for instance, was pre- 
 eminently so, and Peter and numberless of 
 God's people since — among whom are the 
 friends I shall quote. 
 
 One of them is a minister of the gospel, who 
 while wielding a power for God throughout 
 the Church, is personally a humble follower 
 of Jesus, in close communion with Him. You 
 need only to know him to be assured of this. 
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 ^*^ He says concerning the voice of God in the 
 *"'c soul, that if Christ should come to us in per- 
 ^ulU gQjj^ as ^Q ju Quj. perplexity so often wish, 
 He would, after making all things clear to us, 
 say: **My child, all of these questions had 
 been already fully answered in my Word. If 
 you had but known your Bible all would have 
 been as plain to you as now, when I have 
 spoken the words to you myself." He main- 
 tains that God guides His people by bringing 
 to their remembrance through the power of 
 the Holy Spirit the words of His Holy Book, 
 not a verse here and there but the whole trend 
 of the teaching of the Scriptures. He says 
 emphatically that we have no knowledge of 
 God's will except from the Bible. The Quak- 
 ers spoke of a knowledge through the Spirit 
 alone, but whenever they said anything to 
 edification, it was something recalled from 
 the previous reading and study of God's 
 Word. 
 
 In answer to the question : *' How to re- 
 prove a case of flagrant wrong?" this saint of 
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God, with evident reluctance, replied: "After *** 
 long preparation sometimes a word will do it." ^^ 
 When asked if by preparation he meant long ^'^W* 
 continued prayer and reading of God's Word, 
 he bowed his head in reverent assent. It 
 is but another phase of the same truth, the 
 Spirit of God applying the Word of God to 
 our hearts, until He can speak through us. 
 
 I submitted our question also to a man of 
 aflFairs, prominent and successful, a scientific 
 as well as a business man, honored both in the 
 church and in the world. I asked him what 
 he would say about the voice of God in the 
 soul to a young man if he should come to him 
 for advice. Having heard men, both young 
 and old, speak of his influence with them in 
 his counsel as well as in his life, I listened with 
 peculiar interest for his reply. He answered : 
 "I should tell him to read his Bible and to 
 keep on his knees ; he could not expect God to 
 furnish him with a special book of instruc- 
 tions." This he said meditatively, and then 
 breaking ofif, added: "If any one asked me 
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**^ to write upon this subject I should just refuse 
 WtP to do it." 
 290111 Again I referred the question to a minister, 
 a pastor, a godly man, and immediately he 
 replied, that in this question is involved the 
 modern danger — men depending upon their 
 consciousness of the will of God, instead of 
 going to the Bible itself and depending upon 
 the truth revealed there. In this I acquiesced, 
 assuring him I realized that the subject in- 
 cludes the whole question of the realm and 
 work of the Holy Spirit, but that I wanted to 
 know from him, how he personally knew the 
 voice and received His guidance — in regard to 
 his own daily duties. He replied, "I pray, — I 
 begin in the morning, and I pray in the night." 
 Genuine prayer, not a passing light petition, 
 was indicated. He went on to say that he 
 begged to be enabled to choose aright among 
 his many duties, knowing which to place first, 
 and to keep at and fulfill those chosen. He 
 implored, just for that day, to be kept from 
 doing the thing which was easy and which 
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 he preferred, and from leaving the task that ^^ 
 was distasteful to him. I have seen this man ^P 
 live, and I thanked God for this insight into 
 his methods, for it had seemed to me that 
 it must be easy for him to go steadily and 
 successfully on through his many and great 
 diflSculties. 
 
 He said he graded his duties according to 
 the standard laid down in the Bible, placing 
 the purely spiritual first, even among those 
 that were religious. And I dare not fail to 
 add that he placed first of all, the necessity to 
 be a devout Christian himself. Therefore, the 
 most imperative duty of the day was the read- 
 ing and study of the Bible and prayer to 
 God, thus getting into close personal relation 
 with Him. 
 
 Still another friend I consulted, a lady who 
 has amazed many who have watched her live 
 — and those nearest have wondered most — at 
 the great and small duties her frail strength 
 has performed. She replied, "I pray," and, 
 "I begin in the night to implore help and 
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 ^^ strength for the following day." The first 
 ***P hour and a half in the morning is given to 
 her devotions, and after this, those who go to 
 her for spiritual companionship and help, as 
 I have done, find her fully equipped and help- 
 ful. I learned, moreover, that her last con- 
 scious thought at night was of her Saviour 
 and she prayed that her first waking thought 
 might be of Him. 
 
 Will you bear with me a few moments 
 longer, for I feel I should be betraying a 
 trust if, in view of your confidence in me, in 
 asking me to expound this difficult subject to 
 you, I failed to tell you something from my 
 own life which might help you. 
 
 The experience came to me at a time of 
 earnest seeking after God, and I believe special 
 spiritual blessings are apt to come at such 
 times. I had two distinct and unusual ex- 
 periences of the voice of the Spirit in my own 
 heart and Hfe and they were many years apart. 
 — Some might say they were coincidence or 
 imagination, but I will tell you of them and 
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 you may judge. It is certain tliat they have '^^^ 
 left a deep impression upon my Hfe, and I 
 consider them but another direct evidence of 
 the reahty of God and His speaking to man. 
 Nor are they more remarkable than the ordi- 
 nary way in which the Spirit recalls the Bible 
 to our souls day by day. In olden times God 
 spoke often by fire from Heaven; now He re- 
 veals Himself by light in the soul. 
 
 What I am going to tell you occurred sev- 
 eral years ago, before I moved from St. Louis. 
 I was away from home, and was held in the 
 grip of God's pro\ddences, as we always are. 
 Whichever way I turned there seemed diffi- 
 culty and though what I ought to do seemed 
 indicated, I did not feel at peace in going for- 
 ward. My heart was like the sea in a storm — 
 turbulent! Then this exceptional experience 
 came to me, and I have always felt it was the 
 Holy Spirit in His wonderful capacity as Com- 
 forter. No special guidance came to me from 
 it, but simply peace, which enabled me to go 
 on in the difficult place where I found myself. 
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 ^•^ The experience was only thist I wakened 
 mP one morning, repeating the most wonderful 
 ^UlU words — like words from Scripture — though I 
 did not remember ever having heard them 
 before. They were gone when I fully wak- 
 ened, only the beautiful impression remained. 
 All day they eluded me. I could not recall 
 even a clause or a word — not so much as to 
 enable me to search for them in the concord- 
 ance, though I would seek, and almost find 
 them, as when we try to recall a name which 
 has slipped from our memory. The next 
 morning I wakened repeating the words, as 
 the day before, — and this time I could catch 
 just enough to find the verse without doubt 
 in the Bible. 
 
 The third morning as I wakened, I was re- 
 peating the whole passage from beginning to 
 end. And is it not strange that this verse is 
 three times repeated in the Bible, almost 
 verbatim — ^yet not exactly ? There was differ- 
 ence enough for me to discern just which of 
 these three verses was mine ! I doubt whether 
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 you would notice any difference unless your ^*^ 
 attention was called to it, but to me it was *lj^ ^ 
 plain. fs^'Mw* 
 
 My idea that the verse was new to me was 
 dispelled, in this way: you remember one of 
 our dear girls went years ago as a missionary 
 to the Indians; when my letter, telling of this 
 experience was forwarded to her, she replied 
 that before she left us I had given a lesson, 
 taking this verse for the text. It had entirely 
 slipped from my memory, but was no new 
 revelation, just the old story of the loving 
 Spirit bringing to our remembrance the written 
 Word of God, as He does continually to the 
 children of men. 
 
 And these are the wonderful words : " Why 
 art thou cast down, oh, my soul, and why art 
 thou disquieted within me, hope thou in God : 
 for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health 
 of my countenance and my God!" I feel 
 these blessed words are peculiarly mine, and 
 they have come to me time and again — just 
 when I have been in dire need of them. The 
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**^ following are the very similar verses: "Why 
 ••^P art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art 
 ^•^^^ thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God, for 
 I shall yet praise Him for the help of His 
 countenance." "Why art thou cast down, 
 O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within 
 me? hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, 
 who is the health of my countenance and my 
 God." Ps. 42:11; Ps. 42:5; Ps. 43:5. 
 
 The other experience to which I alluded, 
 and which to me was far more remarkable — 
 has been one of the strongest influences that 
 has come into my life — of this I will tell you 
 in the next paper which you have appointed 
 for me. 
 
 Before I close, my dear friends, may I say 
 a word to those, who may be with us to-day, 
 who have never yet really listened to God's 
 voice, nor learned to recognize it? Surely, 
 beloved, you would not want to be closed out 
 from all the blessedness of which we have 
 been speaking. He has a special word for 
 you to-day and the saddest warning of danger 
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 could not be more tender : " To-day if ye will ^'^ 
 hear His voice harden not your hearts." He "^P 
 is near and He longs to speak with you. He ^"Wl 
 says: **Come now, let us reason together, 
 though your sins be as scarlet they shall be 
 as white as snow; though they be red like 
 crimson, they shall be as wool." " I will meet 
 with thee, and converse with thee." *'Lo, I 
 am with you always." "Come unto me and 
 rest." 
 
 THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 
 
 Holy Ghost, unerring guide, 
 Lead me, lest I turn aside. 
 Let my will so yielded be, 
 I can hear Thee speak to me. 
 
 When I'm turning to the wrong. 
 Warn me as with plaintive song, 
 That shall send a quivering fear 
 Through my soul of danger near. 
 
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 ^'^ liCt no hoped-for, longed-for prize, 
 
 WtP That could charm deluded eyes, 
 
 ^OUl Make me cause my Saviour pain, 
 
 Whatsoe'er the fancied gain. 
 
 When I stand with faltering feet 
 Where two ways divergent meet. 
 Show me which is Thine own choice 
 By an inward holy voice. 
 
 Bring to my distracted brain 
 Holy words that there have lain. 
 Learned from Scripture through my life 
 Make them clear amid the strife, 
 
 With them Thine own voice shall be 
 Ever in full harmony. 
 All inspired by Thy rich power, 
 Man's most priceless earthly dower. 
 
 Holy Comforter divine. 
 
 Let me all my care resign. 
 
 Give Thy peace, Thy joy. Thy rest 
 
 While I follow Thy behest. 
 
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 Let me not mine own will seek, IH 
 
 Make me lowly, gentle, meek. Itip 
 
 May the Saviour's holy face ^Ottl 
 Be reflected by Thy grace, 
 
 In my heart, my life, my will, 
 That I may Thy plan fulfill, 
 Trusting every day and hour, 
 Leaning only on Thy power. 
 
 Let my heaven begin while here, 
 Breathe upon me — ever near — 
 In Christ's likeness forming me 
 For Eternity with Thee. 
 
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