QUIETNESS under God's discipline is simply the willingness to let God have his own way. It is ready to go where he sends us, to bear what he lays upon us, to sit still just where he places us. Why should we desire to get away from his blessed discipline? When you would fill a vessel with water from a hydrant or a rain-spout, you do not remove the vessel while the stream is pouring in. It is filled by setting still. And if God's storms are filling your heart with Heaven-descended graces, why should you seek to move away from beneath its blessed outpour? If God is refining your heart, why seek to be taken out of the furnace? We have seldom met with a finer illustration of this grace of quietness than was presented by an aged lady, who, after a busy life of doing good, was at length laid upon her bed, pain-worn and helpless. A good minister went to see her, and asked if, after her active habits, she did not find her confinement hard to bear? 'No, sir,' said she, 'not at all. When I was well I used to hear the Lord say day by day, “Betty, go here; Betty, go there; Betty, do this and do that,” and I used to do it as well as I could; but now I hear him say, “Betty, lie still and cough.”' Which of these two acts of obedience was the most difficult to perform we leave our readers to testify from their own experience.—Evangelist.