There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, "What does this mean?". . . . Is there anything in your character, words, and habits of life so different from the world around you that men are involuntarily compelled to ask themselves or others, "What does this mean?" Not that there is to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for the sake of being peculiar; that were merely to copy the pharisaism of ancient days. . . . Oh, that we might realize that this is the purpose for which God sends us into the world, as He sent His only begotten Son!--_S. A. Blackwood._ =February 13th.= _All . . . saw his face as it had been the face of an angel Acts vi. 15._ The face is made every day by its morning prayer, and by its morning look out of windows which open upon heaven.--_Joseph Parker._ =February 14th.= _At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. Num. ix. 23._ This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If an Israelite, in the desert, had taken it into his head to make some movement independent of Jehovah; if he took it upon him to move when the crowd was at rest, or to halt while the crowd was moving, we can easily see what the result would have been. And so it will ever be with us. If we move when we ought to rest, or rest when we ought to move, we shall not have the divine presence with us.--_C. H. M._ =February 15th.= _In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Eph. i. 13._ The Lord puts a seal upon His own, that everybody may know them. The sealing in your case is the Spirit producing in you likeness to the Lord. The holier you become, the seal is the more distinct and plain, the more evident to every passer-by, for then will men take knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus.--_Andrew Bonar._ =February 16th.= _Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii. 1._ The only preparation for the morrow is the right use of to-day. The stone in the hands of the builder must be put in its place and fitted to receive another. The morrow comes for naught, if to-day is not heeded. Neglect not the call that comes to thee this day, for such neglect is nothing else than boasting thyself of to-morrow.--_G. Bowen._ =February 17th.= _I will help thee, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 14._