March 11

After this manner therefore pray ye: Thy Kingdom come.

WE have to realise that the Will of God is to be done on earth, that the Kingdom of Heaven is to be a present Kingdom, here and now, not relegated indefinitely to the future. Our life is not in the future, but in the present, and it always will be in the present: it is in our life that we have to apply our beliefs—utilise our talents, and bring forth fruit. The Kingdom of Heaven is not only at hand, it is potentially in our midst, and may be actually within us. These are its two chief aspects, the social and the individual. The ideal is to be made real, in each and in all: nothing is too good to be true: each soul is to attain its highest aim: the world is to be transfigured and transformed.

SIR OLIVER LODGE

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I 2 March Morning

Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake?

MY Redeemer and my Lord, I beseech Thee, I entreat Thee, Guide me in each act and word, That hereafter I may meet Thee, Watching, waiting, hoping, yearning, With my lamp well trimmed and burning! Interceding With these bleeding Wounds upon Thy hands and side, For all who have lived and errèd Thou hast suffered, Thou hast died, Scourged, and mocked, and crucified, And in the grave hast Thou been buried! If my feeble prayer can reach Thee, O my Saviour, I beseech Thee, Even as Thou hast died for me, More sincerely Let me follow where Thou leadest; Let me, bleeding as Thou bleedest, Die, if dying I may give Life to one who asks to live, And more nearly, Dying thus, resemble Thee!

HENRY WADS- WORTH LONG- FELLOW

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