O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.JER. X. 23. I will direct all his ways. ISA. xlv. 13. COME, Light serene and still! With thy clear day: Guide of the feeble sight, Star of grief's darkest night, ROBERT II. OF FRANCE. THERE had been solemn appointed seasons in Anna's life, when she was accustomed to enter upon a full and deliberate survey of her business in this world. The claims of each relationship, and the results of each occupation, were then examined in the light of eternity. It was then, too, her fervent prayer to be enabled to discern the will of God far more perfectly, not only in the indications given of it for her guidance through each day's occupations, but as it might concern duties not yet brought home to her conscience, and therefore unprovided for in her life. ANNA, OR PASSAGES FROM HOME LIFE Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. · PHIL. iii. 13, 14. YET I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot J. MILTON. IT is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement, God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. He is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes. F. W. ROBERTSON. ANNA, OR PASSAGES FROM HOME LIFE 77, 165, 200, 365 ARNOLD, THOMAS (1795-1842) . BASIL, COPTIC LITURGY OF ST. (about 370) BARNES, ALBERT (1798-1870) BOETHIUS (about 470-524) BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732) . 228 27, 166 BRONTÉ, CHARLOTTE (MRS. NICHOLLS) (1816- 1855) 124 5, 86, 158, 211, 314 BROOKE, STOPford A. (b. 1832) 291 43 302 22, 146 CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1880). 50, 132, 220, 275, 293, CARTER, THOMAS THELLUSON, pub. 1871 160 13, 147, 148, 298 CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY (1780-1842). 111, 163 192, 222, 359 CHARLES, MRS. ELIZABETH (RUNDELL) (b. about CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (b. 1810). COLLYER, ROBERT (b. 1823) 212, 258 ELIOT, GEORGE (MARIAN EVANS CROSS) (1819- 1880) EMERSON, MARY MOODY (1774-1863) EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882) 131 20, 46, 91, 105, 122, 148, 151, 155, 184, 206, 225, 293, 330 EPICTETUS (1st and 2d centuries of Christian era) 44 313 FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1815-1863). 32, 94, 97, 146, 148, 160, 193, 239, 317, 340 FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC de la MOTHE FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB (1762-1814) PAGE GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING (b. 1840). GOLD DUST, pub. 1880 GREAVES, JAMES PIERREPOINT (1777-1842). 94, 121, 136, 167, 226, 232, 256 GUYON, MADAME JEANNE-MARIE (1648-1717) 119, 141, 188, 196, 202, 319 HALE, EDWARD EVERETT (b. 1822) HALL, BISHOP JOSEPH (1574-1656) HAVERGAL, FRANCES RIDLEY (1836-1879). 14, 51, 94, HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835). 132, 96, 164 KING, MRS ELIZABETH TABER, written 1856. . 203 151, 181 LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761). 7, 17, 59, 69, 79, 92, 109, |