November 29
Companions of the Way (Evening)If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and put her on as a glorious long robe.
WE live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's,
Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.
What asks our Father of His children, save
Justice and mercy and humility,
A reasonable service of good deeds,
Pure living, tenderness to human needs,
Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see
The Master's footprints in our daily ways?
No knotted scourge, nor sacrificial knife,
But the calm beauty of an ordered life,
Whose very breathing is unworded praise!—
A life that stands as all true lives have stood,
Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.
J. G.
WHITTIER
AT THE GATE