January 3 As thy days, so shall thy strength be.—Deuteronomy 33:25. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.—Matthew 6:34. Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear The burden of to-morrow? Sufficient for to-day, its care, Its evil and its sorrow; God imparteth by the way Strength sufficient forRead More …

They go from strength to strength.—Psalm 84:7. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.—Mark 4:28. 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 fromRead More …

January 1 They go from strength to strength.—Psalm 84:7. First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.—Mark 4:28. 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, ShutRead More …

Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.—John 8:9. Take my hands, and let them move At the impulse of Thy love. Take my feet, and let them be Swift and “beautiful” for Thee. Take my intellect, and use Every power as Thou shall choose. F.Read More …

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.—Titus 3:8. Faith’s meanest deed more favor bears Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hourRead More …

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.—Colossians 4:2. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.—1 Corinthians 16:13. We kneel how weak, we rise how full of power. Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others—that we are not alwaysRead More …

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.—James 1:27. Not to ease and aimless quiet Doth that inward answer tend, But to works of love and duty As our being’sRead More …

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.—Luke 9:23. There lies thy cross; beneath it meekly bow; It fits thy stature now; Who scornful pass it with averted eye, ‘Twill crush them by and by. J. KEBLE. ToRead More …

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.—Romans 12:1.   Thou hast my flesh, Thy hallowed shrine, Devoted solely to Thy will; Here let Thy light forever shine, This house stillRead More …

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.—Romans 15:1. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.—Isa. 50:4   If thereRead More …