and demands a dollar of you as you enter. The seats in this church are
free to rich and poor, aged and young. These free seats typify the
salvation that is here proclaimed.

MEMORY VERSE, _Isaiah_ 55: 1

"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that
hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price."

MEMORY HYMN [304]

_"I heard the voice of Jesus."_




IN THE DARK


I have here what are commonly known as Chinese lilies. Two weeks ago
they were only two or three inches high. Now they are between two and
three feet. How rapidly they have grown! I How can we account for it? I
can give one reason. It is because they had adequate preparation. The
bulbs from which these lilies grew were kept in the dark for ten days.
There, in the dark, they stored up strength and energy for the work that
was before them.

Many years of our Saviour's life were spent in obscurity. They were
years when, as far as the world is concerned, he was in the dark,