August 12

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not.—ISA. XXXV, 4.

We can stand the smart of yesterday,

To-day's worse ill we can drive away.

What was and is brings no dismay,

For past and present sorrow:

But the burdens that make us groan and sweat,

The troubles that make us fume and fret,

Are the things that haven't happened yet—

The pins that we'll find to-morrow.

R. J. BURDETTE, in Ladies' Home Journal.

The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future, are not crosses which come from God. We show want of faith in Him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall His arrange- ments, and struggling to supplement His Providence by our own providence. The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be. If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have foreseen. Let us shut our eyes, then, to that which God hides from us, and keeps in reserve in the treasures of His deep counsels. Let us worship without seeing; let us be silent; let us abide in peace.

F NELON.