February 18

Alles Ding hat seine Zeit, Gottes Lieb in Ewigkeit.

WE may imagine an aged man who has lived through the last fifty or sixty years, and has been watching the movements which have agitated the Church from extreme to extreme and back again, each tendency seeming to have as great, or even a greater, reaction. He would see . . . that all other things come to an end, but that of the love of God and man there is no end. He would not raise questions about the rites of the Church, or the canonicity of the books of Scripture: these belong to criticism and ecclesiastical history, not to the spiritual life. He would seek for the permanent and essential only in the books of Scripture, in the lives of good men, in the religion of the world. To follow Christ, to speak the truth in love, to do to others as you would they should do to you, these are the eternal elements of religion which can never pass away, and he who lives in these lives in God.

OLD AGE

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a Building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.