September 25

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.—MATT. xxiv, 42.

I know not the hour of His coming, I know not the day of the year, But I know that He bids me be ready For the step that I sometime shall hear. And whether on earth or in Heaven, Down here, or 'mid scenes of the blest, I am sure His love will surround me, And with Him I will leave all the rest.

I know not what duties are waiting The hands that are willing and true, And I ask but the strength to be faithful And do well what He gives me to do. And if He should bid me stand idle, Just waiting, in weakness and pain, I have only to trust and be faithful, Sometime He'll make it all plain.

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.

THE KORAN.

Watchfulness is the wise exercise of a gracious soul who is sensible of his own weakness, loves his Saviour, and fears to grieve His Spirit.

KARL H. BOGATZKY.

That man who is the most watchful is the least sinful.

WILLIAM SECKER.