January 15

For with Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light shall we see light.—Ps. xxxvi, 9.

Are you shining for Jesus, dear one, Shining just everywhere, Not only in easy places, Not only just here or there? Shining in happy gatherings, Where all are loved and known? Shining where all are strangers? Shining when quite alone? Shining at home and making True sunshine all around? Shining abroad, and faithful— Perhaps among faithless found.

Forever the sun is pouring his gold On a hundred worlds that beg and borrow; His warmth he squanders on summits cold. His wealth, on the homes of want and sorrow. To withhold his largess of precious light Is to bury himself in eternal night: To give is to live.

ANON.

As the rays come from the sun, and yet are not the sun, even so our love and pity, though they are not God, but merely a poor, weak image and reflection of Him, yet from Him alone they come. If there is mercy in our hearts, it comes from the fountain of mercy. If there is light of love in us, it is a ray from the full sun of His love.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Good deeds will shine as the stars in heaven.

THOMAS CHALMERS.