March 5

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.—GAL. V, 22, 23.

Plant in us an humble mind,

Patient, pitiful, and kind;

Meek and lowly let us be,

Full of goodness, full of Thee.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The state of mind, which is described as meekness, or quietness of spirit, is characterized in a high degree by inward harmony. There is not, as formerly, that inward jarring of thought contending with thought, and conscience asserting rights which it could not maintain.

T. C. UPHAM.

I believe that no Divine truth can truly dwell in any heart without an external testimony in manner, bearing, and appearance, that must reach the witness within the heart of the beholder, and bear an unmistakable though silent evidence to the eternal principle from which it emanates.

M. A. SCHIMMELPENNINCK.