[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0916":3},"SEPTEMBER 16\r\nHide thyself by the brook Cherith (1 Kings 1 7.3).\r\nGod's servants must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man\r\nwho is to take a high place before his fellows must take a low\r\nplace before his God. We must not be surprised if sometimes our   Father says: \"There, child, thou hast had enough of this hurry, and publicity, and excitement; get thee hence, and hide thyself by the   brook-hide thyself in the Cherith of the sick chamber, or in the\r\nCherith of bereavement or in some solitude from which the crowds have ebbed away.\"\r\nHappy is he who can reply, \"This Thy will is also mine; I flee unto Thee to hide me. Hide me in the secret of Thy tabernacle, and\r\nbeneath the covert of Thy wings!\"\r\nEvery saintly soul that would wield great power with men must win it in some hidden Cherith. The acquisition of spiritual power is\r\nimpossible, unless we can hide ourselves from men and from\r\nourselves in some deep gorge where we may absorb the power of the\r\neternal God; as vegetation through long ages absorbed these  qualities of sunshine, which it now gives back through burning coal.\r\nBishop Andrews had his Cherith, in which he spent five hours every day in prayer and devotion. John Welsh had it-who thought the day  ill spent which did not witness eight or ten hours of closet\r\ncommunion. David Brainerd had it in the woods of North America. Christmas Evans had it in his long and lonely journeys amid the\r\nhills of Wales.\r\nOr, passing back to the blessed age from which we date the\r\ncenturies: Patmos, the seclusion of the Roman prisons, the Arabian desert, the hills and vales of Palestine, are forever memorable as\r\nthe Cheriths of those who have made our modem world.\r\nOur Lord found His Cherith at Nazareth, and in the wilderness of\r\nJudea; amid the olives of Bethany, and the solitude of Gadara. None of us, therefore, can dispense with some Cherith where the sounds\r\nof human voices are exchanged for the waters of quietness which are fed from the throne; and where we may taste the sweets and imbibe   the power of a life hidden with Christ. --Elijah, by Meyer.",1783499793858]