EARNESTNESS of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.

TO TAKE up the Cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

WE need as much the cross we bear
As air we breathe, as light we see;
It draws us to Thy side in prayer,
It binds us to our strength in Thee.

THE crosses which we make for ourselves by our over-anxiety as to the future are not heaven-sent crosses.

THUS I learned old pleasures are estranged,
Only that something better may be given – 
Until, at last, we find this earth exchanged
For Heaven.

What to thee is shadow, to Him is day,
And the end He knoweth,
And not on a blind and aimless way 
The spirit goeth.

With each returning morning, 
I cast old things away; 
Life’s journey lies before me.
My prayer is for to-day.

THE little worries which we meet each day
May lie as stumbling blocks across our way, 
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be 
Of grace, O Lord, to Thee.

I ASK thee for a thoughtful love, 
Through constant watching wise, 
To meet the glad with joyful smiles, 
And wipe the weeping eyes,
A heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathise.

WHOSO neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself;