July 22

Walk as children of light: (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth:) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.—EPH. v, 8, 9, 10.

When men's intentions are wicked, their guilt haunts them. But when they're just they're armed, and nothing daunts them.

THOMAS MIDDLETON.

Goodness is an energy and a growth, not a miracle.

H. R. HAWEIS.

What is a bud in a forest? yet it is as beautiful as if alone. What is one snowflake of the mantle that wraps the mountain-top? yet it is perfect as if alone, and reflects part of the early golden light of the advancing sun. Each man is a man, and may have his individuality of work and worth. A good man among the good is as one of the drops on which God paints the rainbow; for good men are to the world its rainbow of Divine promise and hope, and the goodness of no man is lost. Every rainbow does its part in dissolving light into color, and though we may seem to ourselves like those drops which, falling near our window, make to us no part of the bow, yet we too have our brightness and place, forming part of the arch as seen by some—that arch which "the hands of the Most High have bended." . . . We, and our work and our history, all have worth, and may have special worth.

BISHOP LYNCH COTTON.

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

PHILIP MASSINGER.

Goodness is beauty in its best estate.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.