October 7

Be ye thankful.—Col. iii, 15.

When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.

Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ: Nor is the least a cheerful heart. That tastes those gifts with joy.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

If God gives us much, we are bound to be thankful and use it for Him. If He give us but little, we are bound to be content and cheerfully to enjoy Him in it.

MATTHEW HENRY.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an in- ward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not, like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure that, were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the gratification which accompanies it.

ADDISON.

Virtuous hearts are instinctively grateful.

BENARDIN ST. PIERRE.

Let him who gives be silent, but let him who re- ceives speak.

MICHAEL CERVANTES.