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that were deserted by the mother bird. With wide-open mouths the little ones cried for food. An attempt was made to feed them, but as the strange hand approached, every mouth was quickly shut in a flutter of fear. Food was placed on the edge of the nest --- in vain. The little birds were afraid to take the food from a "strange" source and were too blind to see it "at hand". In time, they all died, not from lack of food, but from lack of sense! "May we not," says the writer, "for the same reason, lose the good sent to us in answer to our cries?" We have the warning, "Be careful to entertain strangers, for, thereby, have some entertained angels unawares. " The strange thought we reject may be the very angel or message of Love for which we have been pleading.

The cry of the hungry birds is heard all around us, "Give us our daily bread and our water of life, but give it from the familiar hand, or we will not accept it."

It is written, "The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." More and more revelation comes to the one who is obediently walking in the light lie sees, and is ready to hear.

"Not many mighty, not many noble are called" (hear the call): "God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise. The common people heard him gladly. How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven?"