While zeal is commendable, remember the Apostle's qualification, "It is good to be zealously affected always in a _good_ thing." There is in these days much base coin current, _called_ "zeal," which bears not the image and superscription of Jesus. There is zeal for church-membership and party; zeal for creeds and dogmas; zeal for figments and non-essentials. "From such turn aside." Your Lord stamped with His example and approval no such counterfeits. _His_ zeal was ever brought to bear on two objects, and two objects alone--_the glory of God_ and _the good of man_. Be it so with _you_. Enter, first of all (as He did the earthly temple), the sanctuary of _your own heart_, with "the scourge of small cords." Drive out every unhallowed intruder there. Do not suffer yourself to be deceived. Others may call such jealous searchings of spirit "sanctimoniousness" and "enthusiasm." But remember, to be _almost saved_, is to be _altogether lost_!--to be zealous about every thing but "the one thing needful," is an insult to God and your everlasting interests! Have a zeal for _others_. Dying myriads are around you. As a member of the Christian priesthood, it becomes you to rush in with your censer and incense between the living and the dead, "that the plague may be stayed!" Be it yours to say, "Blessed Jesus! I am _Thine_!--Thine only!--Thine wholly!--Thine for ever! I am willing to follow Thee, and (if need be) to _suffer_ for Thee. I am ready at Thy bidding to leave the homestead in the valley, and to face the cutting blasts of the mountain. Take me--use me for Thy glory. 'Lord! what wilt Thou have me to do?'" "ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND." Twenty-third Day. BENEVOLENCE. "Who went about doing good."--Acts, x. 38.