April 8

My times are in Thy hand.—Ps. xxxi, 15.

As God leads me, will I go,

Nor choose my way;

Let Him choose the joy or woe

Of every day:

They cannot hurt my soul,

Because in His control:

I leave to Him the whole—

His children may.

L. GEDICKE.

We can't choose happiness either for ourselves or for another; we can't tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the Divine voice within us, for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard; it has slipped away from me again and again; but I have felt that, if I let it go forever, I should have no light through the darkness of this life.

GEORGE ELIOT.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

F. W. ROBERTSON.