February 8

In your patience possess ye your souls.—Luke 21:19.

DO I remember that it is a high attainment, as well as a binding duty, to rule my own spirit— to keep the passions and emotions of my heart under control? Do I prayerfully cultivate patience? Am I patient under rebuke, not answering again; patient under injury, blessing those that hate me; patient under provocation, remembering Him, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; patient in adversity or suffering, ready to wait the Lord's time for deliver- ance; patient in duty, faithfully enduring to the end?

Christ went to heaven through many a wrong and many a suffering. His visage and countenance were all marred, more than the sons of men. You may not be above your Master—RUTHERFORD.

In suffering times, set patience on the guard for the preserving of your souls. By it keep out all those impressions which would ruffle you, and put you out of temper. In all things run with patience the race set before you in Christ Jesus, and the crown shall be yours in the end.

Enduring wrong, reproach, or grief, With sweet and steadfast will; Loving and blessing those who hate, Returning good for ill; Patient in suffering, toil, or loss, And glorying only in the cross!