May 26
Companions of the Way (Morning)'Tis Life, not Death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that we want.
HE is the most religious man, not who most despises life, but who most sees the grandeur of his opportunities; not who draws the sharpest contrast between the vanities of earth and the abiding glories of heaven, but to whom the breath of eternity has already transfigured the things of time, and whose guarantee for the future is found, not in the emptiness, but in the fulness of the present. The Greek legend tells of two ways by which the deadly charm of the Sirens' song was escaped. Ulysses stopped the ears of his followers with wax, and had himself bound to the mast of his ship. The Argonauts heard the song of Orpheus, sweeter than the song of the Sirens, and so escaped their witchery.
P. H. WICK- STEED
THE HERITAGE
Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by Thy name. Leave us not.