waiting if there is to be a continual flow.

It is the mind that cleaves to God which God keeps. I suppose that there
was floating before Paul's thoughts some remembrance of this great
passage of the evangelical prophet when he uttered his words, which ring
so strikingly with so many echoes of them, when he said, 'The peace of
God which passeth understanding shall keep your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus.' It is the steadfast mind that is kept in perfect peace.
If we 'keep ourselves,' by that divine help which is always waiting to
be given,' in the' faith and 'love of God,' He will keep us in the hour
of temptation, will keep us from falling, and will garrison our hearts
and minds in Christ Jesus.

And then, still further, this faithful, steadfast heart and mind, kept
by God, is a mind filled with deepest peace. There is something very
beautiful in the prophet's abandoning the attempt to find any adjective
of quality which adequately characterises the peace of which he has been
speaking. He falls back upon the expedient which is the confession of
the impotence of human speech worthily to portray its subject when he
simply says, 'Thou shalt keep in peace, peace ... because he trusteth in
Thee.' The reduplication expresses the depth, the completeness of the
tranquillity which flows into the heart, Such continuity, wave after
wave, or rather ripple after ripple, is possible even for us. For, dear
brethren, the possession of this deep, unbroken peace does not depend on
the absence of conflict, on distraction, trouble, or sorrow, but on the
presence of God. If we are in touch with Him, then our troubled days may
be calm, and beneath all the surface tumult there may be a centre of
rest. The garrison in some high hill-fortress looks down upon the open
where the enemy's ranks are crawling like insects across the grass, and
scarcely hears the noise of the tumult, and no arrow can reach the lofty