IN these days of hurry and bustle, we find ourselves face to face with a terrible danger; and it is this—no time to be alone with God. The world, in these last days, is running fast; we live in what is called “the age of progress;” and “you know we must keep pace with the times.” So the world says. But this spirit of the world has not confined itself to the world. It is, alas, to be found among the saints of God. And what is the result? The result is—no time to be alone with God. And what next? Surely the question does not need an answer. Can there be any condition more deplorable than the condition of a child of God who has no inclination to be alone with his Father? This “desert life,” as many may call it, is of importance and cannot be over-valued, and, as if with a trumpet, we would sound it in the ears of brethren. Let us turn to the pages of God’s own Book; for we can turn nowhere else if we are seeking light on this or any other subject. On scanning its precious pages, we find that the men of God—God’s mighty men—were those who had been in “the school of God,” as it has well been called; and his school was simply this: “In the desert alone with himself.” Far removed from the din and bustle of the haunts of men—distant alike from human eye and ear—there they met alone with God; there they were equipped for the battle. And when the time came that they stood forth in public service for God, their faces were not ashamed—nay, they had faces as lions, they were bold and fearless, yea, and victorious before God; for the battle had been won already in the desert alone with him.—London Christian.