January 24

Unspotted from the World.

HE walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law; The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw.

And, pausing not for doubtful choice Of evils great or small, He listened to that inward voice Which called away from all.

O Spirit of that early day, So pure and strong and true, Be with us in the narrow way Our faithful fathers knew.

JOHN GREEN- LEAF WHITTIER

Give strength the evil to forsake, The cross of truth to bear, And love and reverent fear to make Our daily lives a prayer.

AND A CREED

Evening

What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.

THE simple truths of religion are the natural bulwarks against doubt, and they are the natural boundaries of our knowledge of things beyond us. We cannot pierce the veil which separates us from the world of spirits, but the belief in love, in truth, in justice, in holiness, may sustain us in the valley of the shadow of death. These are the powers which encircle us, not the darkness of the unknown, as some philosophers tell us. Nor can any one pretend that because this is an age of criticism and unbelief he has lost the rule of life—he never had one who imagines this. We may sum up all in the precept, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself”; he may pass his life in imitation of Him “who went about doing good.” There BENJAMIN is nothing simpler in this world than the Gospel of JOWETT Christ.

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THE PRESENCE