each other’s arms. Ah, brethren! the Lord knows the spot of His children. He acknowledges them by the mark of correction. AFFLICTION quickens YOUR affliction quickened your prayers. There is a man trying to write with a quill pen; it will not make anything but a thick stroke; but he takes a knife and cuts fiercely at the quill till it marks admirably. So we have to be cut with the sharp knife of affliction, for only then can the Lord make use of us. See how sharply gardeners trim their vines, they