To be brought to the place where we can say, "Thy will be done," is a blessed thing. It is an experience of the Lord's work. Only the Lord can cause our anxieties, and urgent endeavor to cease, the weight and importance of worldly things, to drop from our minds, and s willingness to come into our hearts to "commit our way unto the Lord," and to ask him with our whole heart to guide us, and to conform us to his will. How restful it is to our souls, to feel that we are saying from the depths of our hearts, "O Lord, lead us: Lord, show us thy will in this thing, and let us walk according to it. Open the way before us." When we have been enabled to trust in the Lord, "delight ourselves in the Lord," and "commit our way unto the Lord," it follows that we do "rest in the Lord."--Psalm xxxvii. 1.

How hard I have tried at times, or thought I did, to "rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him ;" and sometimes I would try to think I was resting in him, and that my anxious efforts to decide as to the course which would be best, and to accomplish that which I had decided upon, were really efforts to work out his will. But soon I would see that there was no rest in this, no felt confidence in the Lord as my. Guide, no casting of my care upon him. ' Then how impossible I have found it to seek him with my whole heart, and wait for him. Some desires of my own held me back. I wanted my own way. How far from the Lord I seem at such times. Conscious that I am not forsaking all, not taking my cross and following him, not giving up my will, I yet do not know how to d° so, or even how to desire to do so. As in all other things pertaining to our experience, we must first see and feel our need, and our helplessness to supply it, and the opposition and the opposition of our depraved natures to the will and ways of God, and then we shah be prepared to know and appreciate and rejoice in his own blessed work, when he works in us that which is wen pleasing in his sight. How quietly, how sweetly, how unexpectedly we feel our heal drawn Out in prayer and supplication to the Lord to choose our way for us, and how without any effort of our own, our minds give up struggle, and are relieved from the burden, and experience an able rest in waiting patiently for the Lord, assured that he will us, and in some sure way let us know his will, and provide for us. feeling of confidence in the Lord does not cause carelessness, nor us indolent. On the contrary, we are more than ever awake to duty, careful to do what our hands find to do, attentive to the voice of dear Redeemer, that we may hear his commands to us, and may and do his will.

November 1897.