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their open mouths were quickly shut in a flutter of fear,
making it impossible to give them that for which they
cried. The food was then laid on the edge of the nest
and they were left for the night. In the morning all
were dead. Too afraid to take their food from a new
source, and too blind to see it "at hand," they suffered
and died for their own ignorance.
"May we not," says the writer, "for the same reason,
lose the good sent to us in answer to our cries?"
The cry of these birds may be heard all around us.
"Give us our spiritual bread, and our water of life, but
give it to us in the old familiar way which we know so
well."
One says: "It takes two to make a gift, one to give,
the other to receive." God, the Giver of every good gift,
has never withheld anything from us. David sings:
"The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord." -- Psl. 33:5.
If we lack any good, it is because we have not known
how to accept and appropriate the good that is everywhere. God has given all; we have not received.
"Our citizenship is in heaven." -- Phil. 3:20. Rev, Ver.
Not is going to be, but is now. The world needs a Saviour to-day just as much as it did 1,800 years ago. The
same Divine Power, the same pure Life, the same Truth,
the same Love, and the same spiritual Presence is with
us. "Lo, I am with you always."
Let us admit this Presence and Power, and then
shall we hear in each new voice that speaks the assuring
words, "It is I, be not afraid."
If we follow the inner call of Truth, we shall have
the outer evidence. The disciples, without a question,
followed a voice strange to them, which bade them
"come." They left all, and followed without any evidence. After this willingness and obedience, they received
