He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and shall array himself with judgment unfeigned as with a helmet. WISDOM OF SOLOMON v. 18.

This world's not blot for us

Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

ROBERT BROWNING

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...

ET us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high, humane office, a sacrament, when its aim is grand; when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom, or love, or devotion. Parched corn eaten today that I may have roast fowl to my dinner on Sunday, is a baseness; but parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations, that I may be serene and docile to what the mind shall speak, and girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or good will, is frugality for gods and he

roes.

EMERSON

Seclusion from what is called the world had brought him into larger and closer contact with what is really the world. The breakers upon reef and shore may be the ocean to some, but he who would know the ocean indeed, must leave them afar, sinking into silence, and sail into wider and lonelier spaces.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

Dwell in the land, and follow after faithfulness.

PSALM Xxxvii. 3.

Love's hearts are faithful, but not fond,

Bound for the just, but not beyond;

Not glad as the low-loving herd,

Of self in other still preferred,
But they have heartily designed
The benefit of broad mankind.
And they serve men austerely,
After their own genius clearly,
Without a false humility;
For this is Love's nobility,-
Not to scatter bread and gold,
Goods and raiment bought and sold;
But to hold fast his simple sense,
And speak the speech of innocence,
And with hand and body and blood,
To make his bosom-counsel good.
He that feeds men serveth few;
He serves all who dares be true.

EMERSON

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SPECIALLY will it be an inspiration to the young, who will see by this example (Henry W. Bellows) how much better it is to devote one's life to the benefit of his fellow-men than to know merely personal matters and private objects.

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE

All honor to those who go down into the slums to do good work, but the danger of patronage is great; often it would be better for them to stay at

home and work for the upbuilding of the community in which they live.

A. D. MAYO

(Spoken before the Young Men's Christian Union, Boston, after sixteen seasons of educational ministry in the South.)

He knew that the mission of man is to help his neighbor. But inasmuch as he was ready to help he recoiled from meddling. To meddle is to destroy the holy chance. Meddlesomeness is the very opposite of helpfulness, for it consists in forcing yourself into another self instead of opening yourself as a refuge to the other..

GEORGE MACDONALD

I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Every right and natural responsibility of which you relieve a man, taking it on yourself, makes him less able to bear those responsibilities that nothing can relieve him of.

JEAN INGELOW

No man can successfully deal with the difficulties of the seen, unless he be linked in closest fellowship with the forces of the unseen.

LAURA ORMISTON CHANT

Week Twenty-third

ALL THINGS FRIENDLY AND

SACRED

Prelude

As the insect from the rock
Takes the color of its wing;
As the boulder from the shock
Of the ocean's rhythmic swing
Makes itself a perfect form,
Learns a calmer front to raise;
As the shell, enamelled warm
With the prism's mystic rays,
Praises wind and wave that make
All its chambers fair and strong;
As the mighty poets take

Grief and pain to build their song;

Building, as the heavens roll,

Something large and strong and free,Things that hurt and things that mar Shape the man for perfect praise; Shock and strain and ruin are

Friendlier than the smiling days.

JOHN W. CHADWICK