June 9

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.—II COR. iii, 18.

I do not ask that Thou wilt bless

With gifts of heavenly sort my day,

So much as that my hands may dress

The borders of my lowly way

With constant deeds of good and right,

Thereby reflecting heavenly light.

ALICE CARY.

Stand in Christ's presence and mirror His character, and you will be changed in spite of yourself, and unknown to yourself, into the same image, from character to character. Every man is a reflector; that is the principle upon which this is based. He cannot help reflecting; he cannot help showing the environment in which he has lived, the influences that have played round him. . . . All friendship, all love—human and Divine—is spiritual, so that it is no difficulty in reflecting the character of Christ that we have never been in visible contact with Him. He does not appeal to the eye; He appeals to the soul, and is reflected, not from the body, but the soul.

HENRY DRUMMOND.