July 10

I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.—JER. xxix. 11.

Thy thoughts are good, and Thou art kind,

E'en when we think it not;

How many an anxious, faithless mind

Sits grieving o'er its lot,

And frets and pines by day and night,

As God had lost it out of sight,

And all its wants forgot.

P. GERHARDT.

Accept your lot as a man does a piece of rugged ground, and begin to get out the rocks and roots, to deepen and mellow the soil, to enrich and plant it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Our whole trouble in our lot in this world rises from the disagreement of our mind therewith. Let the mind be brought to the lot, and the whole tumult is instantly hushed; let it be kept in that disposition, and the man shall stand at ease, in his affliction, like a rock unmoved with waters beating upon it.

T. BOSTON.

We ought to measure our actual lot, and to fulfill it; to be with all our strength that which our lot requires and allows. What is beyond it is no calling of ours. How much peace, quiet, confidence, and strength would people attain, if they would go by this plain rule.

H. F. MANNING.