January 3

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.—ROM. xii, 11.

Can you do a good deed—do it, Every day perform thy part; With a helping hand extended Live to serve, with loving heart.

Oh! thy life is only noble When you find some work to do; Days for deeds are few, my brother, Find some work—and do it, too.

Do you love thy brother—show it, Ere life's sun sinks in the west; He is longing for the sunshine That has made thy heart so blest.

Days for deeds are growing shorter, Who can claim another year? If you mean to help another Do it quickly! Christ is near.

ANON.

We can only do a deed to God by doing that deed for Him—only by offering ours as the hands with which it shall be done. Our human love for one another, and all our human help, is not less His for being ours. Many dear things of Providence He hands to His little ones by each other. And sometimes whom can He use but you and me? W. C. GANNETT.

It is decreed in the providence of God that although the opportunities for doing good, which are in the power of every man, are beyond count or knowledge, yet the opportunity once neglected, no man by any self-sacrifice can atone for those who have fallen or suffered by his negligence.

JULIANA HORATIA EWING.