October 9

In the day when I cried Thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.—Ps. cxxxviii, 3.

Over our hearts and into our lives, Shadows will sometimes fall; But the sunshine is never wholly dead, And heaven is shadowless overhead, And God is over all.

We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sun- shine. So does the heavenly principle within.

W. E. CHANNING.

Till a man has learned to be happy without the sunshine, and therein becomes capable of enjoying it perfectly, it is well that the sunshine and the shadow should be mingled, so as God only knows how to mingle them. To effect the blessedness for which God made him, man must become a fellow-worker with God.