February 4

Boast not thyself of to-morrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.—PROV. XXVII, I.

There's no time like the present;

To-morrow's far away,

And what our hands may find to do

God bids us do to-day.

Be ready in the golden Now

To do a helpful deed,

And never let the chance go by

To meet a sister's need.

Don't wait until another time,

For she who waits may lose

The grandest chance of all her life;

It is not ours to choose.

The opportunities to do;

They come at God's behest,

And she who never squanders one

Is she who lives the best.

EBEN E. REXFORD.

Sufficient for each day is the good thereof, equally as the evil. We must do at once, and with our might, the merciful deed that our hand findeth to do—else it will never be done, for the hand will find other tasks, and the arrears fall through. And every unconsum- mated good feeling, every unfulfilled purpose that His Spirit has prompted, shall one day charge us as faith- less and recreant before God.

J. H. THOM.