April 19
Daily Gleanings of the Saintly LifeFriday after Second Sunday in Lent
Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God. Micah 6:8.
THE secret of all success in the heavenly life is utterly to distrust ourselves, and seek in all things, and with all earnestness, the help of God. At the same time let us resolve and strive as if everything depended on ourselves. Let our church-goings be real waitings upon God, and our holy seasons times of real prayer, thought, and penitence. Let us go forth cheerfully, as remembering that it is God's work in which we are engaged.
O it is a weary life!
Full of toils and dangers,
Full of sorrows, full of strife,
We in it but strangers.
O it is a world of woe!
Why should we so love it?
And prefer life's cares below
To life's joys above it?
Yet from care we might be free
As the sunshine o'er us,
And the path of life might be
Ever bright before us,
If we could but look beyond
Life, to that life yonder,
If the hearts of earth so fond
Could of heaven grow fonder.
No! 'tis not a weary life,
Though it hath its dangers,
If we wage the holy strife,
If we live as strangers.
It is not a world of woe
If we do not love it,
But a training heaven below
For the heaven above it.
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