July 26

Comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.—I THESS. v, 14.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.—HEB. xii, 1.

With patience, then, the course of duty run;

God never does, or suffers to be done,

But that which you would do if you could see

The end of all events as well as He.

We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against sudden inroads of trouble, and under our daily burdens; disappointments as to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body, or the wearing of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or other's failure toward us; in everyday wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay of age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in heaviness of heart, or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these things, from childhood's little troubles to the martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.

E. B. PUSEY.