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Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Devotional: November 4th

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Song of Solomon 4:16—Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden.

The garden of the heart is like one of those old-fashioned gardens, surrounded by high brick walls, prepared for fruit-trees. I have one in my eye as I write, on the south wall of which old apple-trees have bloomed and fruited for generations. The garden is filled with all manner of spices, "spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, and with all trees of frankincense." Sometimes, however, the spices hang heavily upon the air. They are present, but hardly discernible to the quickest sense. Then the wind is needed to blow through the garden path, that the spices may flow out and pass beyond the barriers to the passers-by.

How often it has happened in the history of the children of God, that those who have known them have never realized the intrinsic excellence and loveliness of their characters until the north wind of sorrow and pain has broken with blustering force upon them Then suddenly spices of rarest odour have exhaled and been carried afar. How the delicate trees dread the north wind! What a tremor goes through the crowded garden walks when they hear the husbandman calling to the north wind to awake! We all choose the south wind. But remember that the Euroclydon that swept down the ravines of Crete upon the Alexandrian corn-ship brought out spices which had slumbered unknown in the heart of the great apostle. His courage! His patience! His power of inspiring hope amid despair, and breaking bread with thanksgiving! Ah, north wind, thy ministry has been of incalculable worth to all of us. We shiver before thy searching power, but the spices will repay. A vane in Leicestershire is inscribed with God Is Love. He is so, from whatever quarter the wind blows.

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