enjoy it. Look up to Him with a bright smile, and thank Him for having
given you richly all things to enjoy!

"My joys to Thee I bring,
The joys Thy love hath given,
That each may be a wing
To lift me nearer heaven.
I bring them, Saviour, all to Thee,
For Thou hast purchased all for me."




12. Twelfth Day.

Much more than this.


"The Lord is able to give thee much more than this."--2 Chron. xxv. 9.


Amaziah, king of Judah, was going to war against the Edomites. He thought
he would make sure of victory by hiring a hundred thousand soldiers from
the King of Israel, and he paid them beforehand a hundred talents, which
was about £34,218.15s. of our money. But a man of God warned him not to
let the army of Israel go with him, for Israel had forsaken the Lord, and
so He was not with them. It seemed a great pity to waste all that money,
and so Amaziah said, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which
I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord
is able to give thee much more than this." So Amaziah simply obeyed, and