Showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn he doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. ITUS ii. 10.

IF on our daily course our mind
Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still, of countless price,
God will provide for sacrifice.

J. KEBLE.

F content and thankfulness, if the patient bearing of evil, be duties to God, they are the ties of every day, and in every circumstance our life. If we are to follow Christ, it must be our common way of spending every day.

WM. LAW.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord cities. It does not matter whether you preach Westminster Abbey, or teach a ragged class, you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

G. MACDONALD.

I WOULD have you invoke God often through e day, asking Him to kindle a love for your cation within you, and saying with St. Paul, Lord, what wouldst Thou have me to do?' ouldst Thou have me serve Thee in the lowest nistries of Thy house? too happy if I may but ve Thee anyhow." And when any special ng goes against you, ask “Wouldst Thou have e do it? Then, unworthy though I be, I will it gladly."

FRANCIS DE SALES.

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Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. MATT. iv. IO.

Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. - Ps. cxix. 2.

THE Comfort of a mind at rest

From every care Thou hast not blest;
A heart from all the world set free,
To worship and to wait on Thee.

A. L. WARING.

RESIGN every forbidden joy; restrain every

wish that is not referred to His will; ban

ish all eager desires, all anxiety. Desire only the will of God; seek Him alone, and you will find peace.

FÉNELON.

"I've been a great deal happier since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I could n't have my own will. Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do."

GEORGE ELIOT

Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need MATT. vi. 32.

of all these things.

ALL as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold;

And knoweth more of all my needs

Than all my prayers have told.

J. G. WHITTIER.

LORD, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what we need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask. I dare not ask either for crosses or consolations; I simply present myself before Thee; I open my heart to Thee. Behold my needs which I know not myself; see, and do according to Thy tender mercy. Smite, or heal; depress me, or raise me up; I adore all Thy purposes without knowing them; I am silent; I offer myself in sacrifice; I yield myself to Thee; I would have no other desire than to accomplish Thy will. Teach me to pray; pray Thyself in me.

FENELON

He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little. - ECCLUS. xix. 1.

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ONE finger's-breadth at hand will mar
A world of light in heaven afar,
A mote eclipse a glorious star,
An eyelid hide the sky.

J. KEBLE.

SINGLE sin, however apparently trifling, however hidden in some obscure corner

of our consciousness,

intend to renounce,

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a sin which we do not

is enough to render real prayer impracticable. A course of action not wholly upright and honorable, feelings not entirely kind and loving, habits not spotlessly chaste and temperate, -- any of these are impassable obstacles. If we know of a kind act which we might, but do not intend to, perform, — if we be aware that our moral health requires the abandonment of some pleasure which yet we do not intend to abandon, here is cause enough for the loss of all spiritual power.

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F. P. COBBE.

Ir is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel, if a single stitch drops; one little sin indulged makes a hole you could put your head through.

CHARLES BUXTON.

Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest. -3 JOHN 5.

And this also we wish, even your perfection. 2 COR. xiii. 9.

IN all the little things of life,
Thyself, Lord, may I see;
In little and in great alike
Reveal Thy love to me.

So shall my undivided life
To Thee, my God, be given;
And all this earthly course below
Be one dear path to heaven.

H. BONAR.

N order to mould thee into entire conformity

to His will, He must have thee pliable in His hands, and this pliability is more quickly reached by yielding in the little things than even by the greater. Thy one great desire is to follow Him fully; canst thou not say then a continual "yes" to all His sweet commands, whether small or great, and trust Him to lead thee by the shortest road to thy fullest blessedness?

H. W. S.

WITH meekness, humility, and diligence, apply yourself to the duties of your condition. They are the seemingly little things which make no noise that do the business.

HENRY MORE