Beat thou with joy, my Heart, for thou dost beat Within the fount of love that beats in thee!

Rise and breathe free, my Soul! Thou breathest not
In earthly damps, but in the air of God.

Sail joyful forth, my Ship of Life! Nor wind,
Nor wave, can work thee harm! Thy haven is
Thine anchor. Even wreck is still in God.

LUELLA DOWD SMITH.

Infinite Love, fill our hearts from the fountain of Thy goodness. May we know that only in love. do we truly live and move and have our being. May we know the joy of living in the light and air of devotion and service to others. May we sleep in peace and the morning deepen our consciousness and joy that we are called to the heavenly dignity of fellowworkers with Thee in creating among men the kingdom of love, peace and joy. May we call the Pilot of Galilee aboard our ship and outride the storms of life's sea of change and temptations. We thank Thee for our Captain's strong, firm hand on the rudder of the world's ship of progress making against every wind of disaster for the port of truth, liberty and righteousness. Amen.

RICHMOND FISK.

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many ways that wind and wind;
While just the art of being kind

Is all this sad world needs.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. HENRY DRUMMOND.

Father, Thou hast given me another day to live and love and labor, and now, while the night shades fall around me and rest time draws near, I thank Thee for all that this day has meant to me. When the morrow comes, with its new opportunities and its new messages and its new experiences, may I move through it stronger, braver, kinder, truer, because of the love and the light which has so filled today. Teach me, my Father, to love as Thou dost love. Help me to love my fellow men. Help me to know their needs, their sorrows, their heart hunger, their spiritual yearnings, and then strengthen me to go to them, in the spirit of Jesus, and do all that lieth in my power to make the morrow brighter and happier and more heaven-like for them. And may that peace which passeth all understanding," be theirs, and mine, forever. Amen.

HAZEN CONKLIN.

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It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on the hills.
The clouds of grey engulf the day
And overwhelm the town

It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining roses down.

It isn't raining rain to me
But fields of clover bloom,
Where any buccaneering bee
May find a bed and room.
A health unto the happy
A fig for him who frets
It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining violets.

ROBERT LOVEMAN.

Heavenly Father, we rejoice in that inner vision which makes us superior to anything that can happen. in the world about us; which enables us to see the summer when it is winter, to see the sun when the clouds are thick, to think of daffodils, clover blossoms and violets when the rain is falling. Help us to look with eyes of faith beyond all failure, all misfortune, all threatened disaster, to the finer and larger ends of life. Lead us on with hope. Build us up in righteous purpose and crown our lives with peace. Amen.

GEORGE L. PERIN.

Oh, if a man could be but as a star,
Having his place appointed here to rise
And there to set, unchanged by earthly change,
Content if it can guide some wandering bark,
Or be a beacon to some home-sick soul!

EDWARD ROWLAND SILL.

We are to take it for granted that every creature of God is in some way good, and has a duty and specific operation providentially accessory to the well-being of all.

RUSKIN.

Almighty Father Eternal, Unchangeable, who blesseth all; who sendest the sunshine and the storm; whose gifts upon the worthy and the outcast fall; whose mighty arm holdest in safety all Thy children; whose goodness and perfection guidest our steps in the pathway of eternal life, — from the dawning light through the noontide heat until the evening calm Thy servant hath toiled for the daily needs and in loving service to the neighbor and the friend. O Father! If we have wrought deeds helpful and sweet and kind and pure, have heartened any soul, made a little brighter for another and safer the King's highcomforted any heart with something of the love wherewith Thou comfortest me, grant Thy gracious word," Well done!" Our deeds, unfruitful, O Lord, forgive! Amen.

way,

ARTHUR W. LITTLEFIELD.

Remember, you cannot see both sides of the coin at once. When you are discouraged by the striving of the animal nature and utterly disgusted with yourself and hating yourself as wholly unregenerate, the noblest exercise of your mental faculty is to force yourself to turn over the coin of yourself, and think intensely into the other side. Say But I am the Lord's; His image is stamped on me. His life is in me; His eternal purpose is my perfection. My true ego is His Divine Spirit." BASIL WILBERforce.

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O Thou, who art the strength of my days, and the comfort of my nights, to whom shall I go, but unto Thee, when the shadows veil my sight and the din of the closing day lingers in my ears. My spirit feels the jar of the world's restlessness; my heart seems so scant of courage, and my will so feeble to do Thy will. Hold Thou my hand, while on bended knee I seek that light which makes the night brighter than the day. As the shadows dissolve I behold Thine image in me so long obscured. I turn my darkened side to Thee, my sun and my shield. Open my eyes to the grace and beauty of Thy divine reflection in my being. Defend me in my weakness and clothe me safely round with infinite love and wisdom. Amen.

WILLIAM FREDERICK DICKERMAN.