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Mary Wilder Tileston

Mary Wilder Tileston

Very little is known about the author of Joy and Strength, Mary Wilder (Foote) Tileston (1843-1934), except her love of spiritual literature. Although she lived in the 19th century, her devotional selections capture biblical truths and values that will always endure. Joy and Strength is a compilation of thoughts and writings from giants of the faith including St. Augustine, Thomas a Kempis, Frederick William Faber and hundred of others. A previous book compiled by Tileston, Daily Strength for Daily Needs, shares the same love of literature and insight presented in Joy and Strength.
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Mary Wilder Tileston

Please the Lord Now

For to-day the Lord will appear unto you.M LEVITICUS 9:4 Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2 DO not let your growth in holiness depend upon surrounding circumstances, but rather constrain those circumstances to minister to your growth. Beware of l... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Possibilities in Love

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen Thou me according unto Thy word. --PSALMS 119:28 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love. --COLOSSIANS 2:2 WHEN I am with Thee as Thou art with me, Life will be self-forgetting power; Love, ever conscious, buoyant, clear, and free W... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Power Without Will

Being confident of this very thing that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. PHILIPPIANS 1:6 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. 1 JOHN 4:4 WHY is it that we, in t... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Praise and Thanksgiving to God

Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name. 1 CHRONICLES 29:13 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness. PSALMS 97:12 AND now the wants are told, that brought Thy children to Thy knee; Here, lingering still, we ask for nought, But... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Praise in All Things

Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion--bless the Lord, O my soul. --PSALMS 102:22 O MOST high, almighty, good Lord God, to Thee belong praise, glory, honor, and all blessing. Praised be my Lord God with all His creatures, and specially our brother the sun, who brings us the day... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Pray Without Ceasing

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17,18 AS Thou, Lord, an immortal soul Hast breathed into me, So let my soul be breathing forth Immortal thanks to Thee. JOHN MASON LET us not be content to pray morning and ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Praying in Spite of Yourself

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it. --MALACHI 1:13 My soul cleaveth unto the dust; quicken Thou me according to Thy word. --PSALMS 119:25 Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. --EPHESIANS 5:14 THERE are some who give up their prayers because ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Preeminent Love

This commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. --1 JOHN 4:21 HE who loves God all else above, His own shall also clasp In circles ampler far of love Than weaker arms can grasp; And farther down through space and time His sympathies descend and climb. --SIR AUBREY DE... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Prepared for Great Sacrifice

By love serve one another. For all the law is ful-filled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. GALATIANS 5:13,14 A MAN who habitually pleases himself will be-come continually more selfish and sordid, even among the most noble and beautiful conditions which nature, histo... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Pressing On

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark. --PHILIPPIANS 3:13,14 TILL, as each moment wafts us higher, By every gush of pure desire, And high-brea... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Pressing Soul

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 1 JOHN 4:9 THY love to me, O God, Not mine, O Lord, to Thee, Can rid me of this dark unrest, And set my spirit free. HORATIUS BONAR THE spirit of prayer is a ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Promise of Peace

Our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His holy name. --PSALMS 33:21 TAKE anxious care for nought, To God your wants make known; And soar on wings of heavenly thought Toward His eternal throne; So, though our path is steep, And many a tempest lowers, Shall His own peace our spiri... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Purified in God's Love

I will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. ZECHARIAH 13:9 AS the purifying process is carried on, "the refiner watches the operation, with the greatest earnestness, until the metal has the appearance of a highly polished mirror, reflecting every object around it: ev... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Questions for the Soldier of Christ

Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. EPHESIANS 6:13 That he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 2 TIMOTHY 2:4 SOLDIERS of Christ, arise, And put your armor on, Strong in the strength which Go... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Questions to Put to Your Heart

Search me, 0 God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. PSALMS 139:23,24 "AM I really what I ought to be? Am I what, in the bottom of my heart, I honestly wish to be? Am I living a life at all like what I myself... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Quieting the Mind and Heart

It is good that a man quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. LAMENTATIONS 3:26 IN to Thy silent place of prayer The anxious, wandering mind recall Dwell 'mid Thy own creation there, Restoring, claiming, hallowing all. Then the calm spirit, won from sin, Thy perfect sacrifice shall be, And all t... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Ready to do His Will

Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou hast also wrought all our works for us. ISAIAH 26:12 (R. V.) WITH that deep hush subduing all Our words and works that drown The tender whisper of Thy call, As noiseless let Thy blessing fall As fell the manna down. JOHN G. WHITTIER PRAY to be calm and q... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Receiving From God's Hand

In Thine hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. CHRONICLES 29:12 WHEN I have nothing in my hand Wherewith to serve my King, When Thy commandment finds me weak And wanting everything, My soul, upon Thy greatness cast, Shall rise divinely free; T... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Receiving Suffering

Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint.hearted. --ISAIAH 7:4 THOUGH everything without fall into confusion, and though thy body be in pain and suffering, and thy soul in desolation and distress, yet let thy spirit be unmoved by it all, placid and serene, delighted in and with its God in... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Recognize Sin

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. --EPHESIANS 4:31 THE wider vision of the mind; The spirit bright with sun; The temper like a fragrant wind, Chilling and grieving none; The quickened heart to know God's will, And on His e... Read More

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