October 4

Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work.—COL. i, 10.

Greatly begin, though thou have time

But for a line, be that sublime.

Not failure, but low aim is crime.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Not what we win,

But what we strive for doth the Master heed,

If what we sought to be we have not been,

Our striving may have helped another's need.

LAURA BRICE.

It is the care of the wise and good man to look to his manners and actions, and rather to how well he lives than to how long; for whether he shall die sooner or later is not his business, but whether he shall die ill or well.

SENECA.

I am persuaded that what we have to aim at is not to accomplish any certain thing, to do a certain good; but, in whatever position we are placed, to make it minister to heavenly mindedness, to spiritual conformity. This is hearing the Shepherd's voice; so may an abbreviated, maimed, and persecuted life still fulfill itself in bearing, in witnessing, which may be enough for their existence—the rest above.

ROBERT ALFRED VAUGHAN.