Who is a rock save our God ?' "Jesus is the rock on which we must build our hope of salvation; any other foundation will be as the sand upon which the foolish man built his house; 'and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it.' "The limpet is wiser; it never trusts to the shifting sand, but holds firmly to the immovable rock.

Be like it in resisting all attempts whether of human or spiritual foes, to drag you from your Rock." "Papa," said Max, slowly and with some hesitation.

"I wish to do so--I think it is my settled purpose--but I--I feel afraid that sometime I may let go.

I'm a careless, heedless fellow you know, and--and I'm afraid I may forget to hold fast to Jesus, and be overcome by some sudden and great temptation." "There is danger of that, my boy," the captain returned with feeling, "yet I should have greater fear for you if I heard you talk in a self-confident and boasting spirit.

Trusting in ourselves we are not safe, but trusting in Jesus we are.