October 8
Companions of the Way (Morning)Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.
SOME have the great grace given them to go in and out, lie down and rise up, always staff in hand, like apostles on pilgrimage—always with loins girt, never with more in the purse than will carry them one stage on; never with more in their wardrobe than the daily wear. Like Wesley, if they are suddenly taken, they have left no engagement unfulfilled, they have no letters to answer or matters to arrange. The children they leave cannot but talk about them, as if they had just been seen off on some happy excursion. No farewells to say, no tears to be shed; nothing but to go after them in a day or two.
ROBERT W. BARBOUR
PILGRIM SOULS