Who lacks not will to use them; vows renewed
On the first motion of a holy thought;

Vigils of contemplation; praise, and prayer,-
A stream, which, from the fountain of the heart
Issuing, however feebly, nowhere flows
Without access of unexpected strength.

Fourteenth Day.

"TAKE therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. day is the evil thereof."

Sufficient unto the

Hopes and disappointments are the lot and entertainment of human life; the one serves to keep us from presumption, the other from despair. None should despair, because God can help them; and none should presume, because God can cross them. The apprehension of evil is many times worse than the evil itself, and the ills

we fear we shall suffer, we suffer in the very fear of them.

No profit canst thou gain
By self-consuming care;

To God commend thy cause,
Attends the softest prayer.

- his ear

Fifteenth Day.

"FOR every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

Love humility in all its instances, practise it in all its parts, for it is the noblest state of the soul of man. Let every day therefore be a day of humility, respect the weakness and infirmities of your fellowcreatures, cover their frailties, love their excellences, encourage their virtues, relieve their wants, rejoice in their prosperity, com

passionate their distress, overlook their unkindness, and secure their friendship. Thus acting, you will set your heart and affections right towards God, and fill you with every temper that is tender and affec

tionate towards men.

God

many a spiritual house has reared, but never one Where lowliness was not laid first the corner-stone.

Sixteenth Day.

"REPENT ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

It is the greatest and the dearest blessing that ever God gave to men, that they may repent; and therefore to deny it, or delay it, is to refuse health brought us by the skill and industry of the Physician; it is to refuse liberty indulged to us by our gracious Lord.

Brother, hast thou wandered far
From thy Father's happy home,
With thyself and God at war?

Turn thee, brother, homeward come !

Hast thou wasted all the powers

God for noble uses gave?

Squandered life's most golden hours?
Turn thee, brother, God can save!

Seventeenth Day.

"FATHER, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am."

Heaven is the union, the society, of spiritual, higher beings. May not these fill the universe so as to make heaven everywhere? And it may be that those on earth may be visible to its inhabitants. And is it at all inconsistent with our knowledge of nature to suppose that those

in heaven, whatever be their abode, may have spiritual senses, organs by which they may discern the remote as clearly as we do the near? But let us not think of the departed as looking on us with earthly, partial affection; their spiritual vision penetrates to our soul. Could we hear their voice, it would not be an utterance of personal attachment, so much as a quickening call to greater effort, to more resolute selfdenial, to a wider charity, to a meeker endurance, a more filial obedience to the will of God.

It is a beautiful belief,
When ended our career,
That it will be our ministry
To watch o'er others here;

To bid the mourner cease to mourn,
The trembling be forgiven,

To bear away from ills of clay

The deathless soul, to heaven.