May 4

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.—II TIM. ii, 15.

One by one thy duties wait thee,

Let thy whole heart go to each,

Let no future dream elate thee,

Learn thou first what these can teach.

ADELAIDE A. PROCTER.

It is by doing our duty that we learn to do it. So long as men dispute whether or no a thing is their duty, they get never the nearer. Let them set ever so weakly about doing it, and the face of things alters. They find in themselves strength which they knew not of. Difficulties, which it seemed to them they could not get over, disappear. For He accompanies it with the influences of His blessed Spirit, and each performance opens our minds for larger influxes of His grace, and places them in communion with Him.

E. B. PUSEY.

Deep-rooted customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the duty of all to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.

JOHN WOOLMAN.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

CHARLES BUXTON.