care of a Heavenly Father as most little children are of the love and care of an earthly father.

Jesus Christ, His blessed Son, will seem like a near and dear friend to you, to whom you will go in all your troubles, to tell Him about them, and to get His help.

It will become as easy and natural to you to speak to Him in prayer, as it is to speak to those about you; you will believe that He loves you so dearly as to have given His very life to save you and wash you from your sins.

You will try every day to think of Him oftener, to please Him better, and to love Him more. You will long for the time when your eyes will be opened to see Him. This is what is meant by having faith in God.

But perhaps you will say, 'It is so difficult to believe in some one whom one cannot see or know.' True, you cannot see Him, or else you would not need faith; but you can know Him. He speaks to you in the Bible. He sent His blessed Son

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down from Heaven to tell you about Himself, to explain to you what you could never else have understood, to live for you, to die for you and to rise again for your sake. Having done all this, He says to you, Believe in Me, so shall you know Me now, and see Me hereafter.

PRAYER.

O Heavenly Father, I know that Thou art about my path, about my bed, and spiest out all my ways, I beseech Thee to make me feel Thy nearness. May I live remembering that Thine eye is upon me.

I want to know Thee better every day. When I am in trouble may I come to Thee. When I am in want may I trust Thee to provide for me. When I am in difficulty may I look to Thee to guide me. Hide not Thy face from me, and though I cannot see Thee with my bodily eyes, may I see Thee with the eyes of my mind.

Lord, I believe, help Thou my unbelief,

and hear this my prayer for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

HYMN.

Jesus Christ once left His throne in Hea

ven,

And came down on earth that He might

show

God's dear love to us His sinful creatures, Taught us all that wondrous love to know.

He became a little helpless infant,

Took a mortal body like our own,

Suffered cold and hunger, pain and weak

ness,

Death and suffering, for our sakes alone.

And shall we, refusing to behold Him, Turn away unmindful of such love, Heedless of the death He died to save us, All regardless of a Home above?

Let us rather pray His blessed Spirit

To abide with us, and grant us grace So to love and serve Him, that hereafter We for evermore may see His face.

Monday.

MODESTY.

TEXT I PET. III. 3.

'Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.'

ST. PAUL does not mean by this to condemn the wearing of gold and plaiting of hair, as wrong in itself, but he wishes to remind you that in the sight of God, such things as these have no value, however much they may be thought of in the sight of men. Man looks on the outward appearance, God looks on the heart.

If God looks on you and sees you