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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

Helping Our Neighbor

Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good. ROMANS 15:2 Let us consider one another. HEBREWS 10:24 LOOK around you, first in your own family, then among your friends and neighbors, and see whether there be not some one whose little burden you can lighten, whose little cares you may lessen,... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

He's Still Glorified

That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death. PHILIPPIANS 3:10 WHAT within me and withoutHourly on my spirit weighs, Burdening heart and soul with doubt, Darkening all my weary days; In it I behold Thy will, God, ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Hide Your Pain

Let all that ye do be done in love. 1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 (R. V.) IF thou art blessed, Then let the sunshine of thy gladness rest On the dark edges of each cloud that lies Black in thy brother's skies. If thou art sad, Still be thou in thy brother's gladness glad. ANNA E. HAMILTON WHAT can be more unk... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

His Love, Not Ours

In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. --ISAIAH 63:9 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. --PSALMS 103:13 GOD only knows the love of God: Oh, that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart; For love I sigh, for love I pine; This only portion, L... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

His Will Becomes Mine

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him. COLOSSIANS 2:6 We have the mind of Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16 NEVER further than Thy cross; Never higher than Thy feet; Here earth's precious things seem dross; Here earth's bitter things grow sweet. Here we learn to serve and g... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

His Will in Your Surroundings

As bond-servants [margin] of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. EPHESIANS 6:6 (R. V.) LORD Jesus, turn us from the noise Of endless strivings and empty joys, To find forever Thy one true peace, Rest from sorrow, from sin release! HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL CAN He not enable you to do that wil... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

His Will is Done

Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. LUKE 11:2 THY Father reigns supreme above, The glory of His name Is Grace and Wisdom, Truth and Love, His will must be the same. And thou hast asked all joys in one, In whispering forth, "Thy will be done." FRANCES R. HAVERGAL IN heaven God's will is done... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Hold on to the Hand

I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee. ISAIAH 42:6 DON'T be content with spending all your time on your faults, but try to get a step nearer to God. It is not He who is far away from us, but we from Him. If you ask me the best means to persevere, ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

How Love for Christ Frees Us

I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved. PSALMS 119:47 THIS everlasting and compunctious study of duty, duty to everybody, everywhere, every day,--it keeps you questioning all the while, rasping in a torment of debates and compunctions, till you almost groan aloud for weariness... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

How to Think of God

God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:6 Surely, He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. ISAIAH 53:4 THE way to think of God so as to know Him, is... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Hungering

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. PSALMS 107:5,6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. MATTHEW 5:6 THOU hear'st the hungry ravens when the... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

I Have Refined Thee

Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. JOB 13:15 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ISAIAH 48:10 I WILL not let Thee go; Thou Help in time of need! Heap ill on ill, I trust Thee still, E'en when it seems that Thou wouldst slay inde... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

I See Your Sorrows

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. Exodus 3:7 THOU knowest, Lord, the weariness and sorrow Of the sad heart that comes to Thee for rest; Cares of today, and burdens f... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

In Not Of

I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. JOHN 17:15 IN the hour of trial, Jesu, plead for me; Lest by base denial I depart from Thee. JAMES MONTGOMERY OUR Lord would have His people to be in the world, and yet to be separate from it.... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

In the Fighting

Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a people for His own possession, zealous of good works. TITUS 2:14 (R. v.) LOVE only can the conquest win, The strength of sin subdue; Come, O my Saviour, cast out sin, And form my soul anew. CHARLES WESLEY L... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Increasing Glory

For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy work: I will triumph in the works of Thy hands. PSALMS 92:4 CONSIDER it (This outer world we tread on) as a harp,-- A gracious instrument on whose fair strings We learn those airs we shall be set to play When mortal hours are ended. JEAN INGELOW EVERY ye... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Inheritance of the Saints

Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. COLOSSIANS 1:12 NOT their own, ah! not from earth was flowing That high strain to which their souls were tuned; Year by year we saw them inly growing Liker Him with whom their hearts com... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Inner Change

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. . . . Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. --PHILIPPIANS 2:2, 5 JESUS, Thy all-victorious love Shed in my heart abroad; Then shall my feet no longer rove, Rooted and fixed in God. My ... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Inner Peace

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. COLOSSIANS 3:15 (R. V.) MAY faith, deep rooted in the soul, Subdue our flesh, our minds control; May guile depart, and discord cease, And all within be joy and peace. ST. AMBROSE THE repose... Read More
Mary Wilder Tileston

Invincible Patience

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. --Psalms 37:5 Plan not, nor scheme,--but calmly wait; His choice is best. While blind and erring is thy sight, His wisdom sees and judges right, So trust and rest. --ADELAIDE A. PROCTER "GREAT peace have they which love ... Read More

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