Desire, it is a dainty word! It were much that He should satisfy the _need_, the _want_; but He goeth far beyond that. Pity is moved to meet our need; duty may sometimes look after our wants; but to satisfy the _desire_ implies a tender watchfulness, a sweet and gracious knowledge of us, an eagerness of blessing. God is never satisfied until He has satisfied our desires.--_Mark Guy Pearse._ =February 5th.= _Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord. . . . The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. Psa. cxxxiv. 1, 3._ If I would know the love of my friend, I must see what it can do in the winter. So with the divine love. It is very easy for me to worship in the summer sunshine, when the melodies of life are in the air and the fruits of life are on the tree. But let the song of the bird cease, and the fruit of the tree fall; and will my heart still go on to sing? Will I stand in God's house by night? Will I love Him in His own night? Will I watch with Him even one hour in His Gethsemane? Will I help to bear His cross up the Via Dolorosa? My love has come to Him in His humiliation. My faith has found Him in His lowliness. My heart has recognized His majesty through His mean disguise, and I know at last that I desire not the gift, but the Giver. When I can stand in His house by night, I have accepted Him for Himself alone.--_George Matheson._ =February 6th.= _He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. 1 John ii. 6._ The preaching that this world needs most is the _sermons in shoes_ that are walking with Jesus Christ.--_Selected._ =February 7th.= _Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea vi. 3._ The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the plain where God's throne is. Our life is a following on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which we are called to pass, but afterwards we see that they afforded us some new knowledge of our Lord. . . . We have not to wait for some brighter opportunity; but by improvement of the present are to build for ourselves a bridge to that future.--_G Bowen._ =February 8th.= _Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house. Gen. xii. 1._ _Abraham . . . was gathered to his people. Gen. xxv. 8._