December 1
Daily Cheer for All the YearGreat peace have they which love Thy law.—Ps. cxix, 165.
Trust in Him at all times.—Ps. lxii, 8.
"All will be well." Why should we ever doubt it?
There was no blunder in creation's pian;
When God's vast mind conceived and went about it
He was not aided nor controlled by man.
The stars that move in such immortal beauty
Through their appointed pathways seem to tell
Our questioning souls, if we but do our duty,
"All will be well."
The root of all dissatisfaction and discontent with self and with one's surroundings and with one's prospects can never be reached until we go down to the will of God in our soul's birth and soul's mission, and make the discovery of that will for us and the doing it our chief aim and hope. No change in life's circumstances, no larger work, no happier outlook will be enough. We ourselves need to be born again. It is not our outward life that needs to be refashioned.
NEWMAN SMYTH.
Learn these two things—never to be discouraged because good things get on slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which lies next your hand.