December 26

I made haste, and delayed not to keep Thy commandments.—Ps. cxix, 60.

Thy youth is still upon thee; use it well:

No days so precious as the days of prime!

Count every hour a gem: keep sentinel

Against each robber of thy priceless time:

Count every day misspent a failure and a crime.

HORATIUS BONAR.

A second is a mite of Time,

Yet his small scythe may be

Reaping some thought or deed sublime

To garner for Eternity.

WILLIAM H. HAYNE.

If you would make the best use of your time, look after the minutes. Keep a strict account of every hour of your time for a single week, setting down the exact manner in which every hour is spent, and see whether, when you come to review the record, you do not find it full of admonition and instruction. In this simple way one can readily understand the secret of his want of time. He will discover that he has given hours to idle talk, to indolence, and to inconsiderable trifles, which have yielded him neither profit nor pleasure. What is the remedy? Arrange your work in the order of its comparative importance. Attend first to the things which are essential to be done, and let the unessentials take their turn afterward. The difference in the amount of work accomplished will be astonishing.

ANONYMOUS.