December 4

Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.—II COR. xiii, 11.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,

Till all our striving cease;

Take from our souls the strain and stress,

And let our ordered lives confess

The beauty of Thy peace.

J. G. WHITTIER.

Possess yourself as much as you possibly can in peace: not by any effort, but by letting all things fall to the ground which trouble or excite you. This is no work, but is, as it were, a setting down a fluid to settle that has become turbid through agitation.

MADAME GUYON.

Through the spirit of Divine Love let the violent, obstinate powers of thy nature be quieted, the hard- ness of thy affections softened, and thine intractable self-will subdued; and as often as anything contrary stirs within thee, immediately sink into the blessed Ocean of meekness and love.

G. TERSTEEGEN.

Five great enemies to Peace inhabit with us, viz.: Avarice, Ambition, Envy, Anger, and Pride, and if those enemies were to be banished we should infalli- bly enjoy perpetual Peace.

PETRARCH.