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FOR

DAILY NEEDS.

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be."

Selected by the Editor of Quiet Hours."

UNIVERSITY

PRINCETON, NJ

BOSTON:

ROBERTS BROTHERS.

1896.

Copyright, 1884,

BY MARY W. TILESTON.

YTISKOVINU
YRARELI

L.M.MOT

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

PREFACE.

THIS

HIS little book of brief selections in

prose and verse, with accompanying texts of Scripture, is intended for a daily companion and counsellor. These words of the goodly fellowship of wise and holy men of many times, it is hoped may help to strengthen the reader to perform the duties. and to bear the burdens of each day with cheerfulness and courage.

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They go from strength to strength.-Ps. lxxxiv. 7. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. - MARK iv. 28.

BUILD thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

O. W. HOLMES.

HIGH hearts are never long without hearing

some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. And, looking higher still, we find those who never wait till their moral work accumulates, and who reward resolution with no rest; with whom, therefore, the alternation is instantaneous and constant; who do the good only to see the better, and see the better only to achieve it; who are too meek for transport, too faithful for remorse, too earnest for repose; whose worship is action, and whose action ceaseless aspiration.

J. MARTINEAU.

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