He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

He knoweth the way that I take.

HEBREWS xi. 6.

JOB Xxiii. 10.

Were it one wasted seed of water-grass,
Blown by the wind, or buried in the sand,
He seeth and ordaineth if it live;
Were it a wild bee questing honey buds,
He seeth if she find, and how she comes
On busy winglets to her hollow tree.

EDWIN ARNOLD

THE

HE next remedy for impatience is a reasonable submission to the will of Providence. This every right-minded man must desire to render, if he believes in a Providence, and believes that the small occasions which try his patience are a part of it. But they are a part of it. We see that they are a part of it. We know that they must be. The divine ordering of all things implies the ordering of everything. There is a Providence that reigns over all the scene and lot of our life. In the buzzing insect, its wisdom speaks as truly as in the winged tempest, in the fall of a sparrow as truly as in the fall of an empire. ORVILLE DEWEY

And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would have obeyed you. LUKE xvii. 5, 6.

When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Only be ye gentle-hearted;
Beauty rich and wisdom rare,
From a gentle spirit parted,

Earneth hate and causeth care.

JOB Xxiii. 10.

EDWIN ARNOLD

THE

HE hairs of our head are numbered; and every thread in the tangled skein of events is numbered, and hath its ministry. Out from that tangled skein, out from each trivial event and circumstance, out from the thorn-bush by the wayside, God's wisdom is speaking, as truly as from the height of heaven. Forever is it teaching; forever must we be learning; in lowliness, in submission, in patience must we be learning. Believe me, the thought I utter is not too high for the humblest occasion. In the thought of God alone is sovereign strength and sacred calmness. The lowliest virtue is thus linked to the throne of heaven. Impatience is unbelief, is denial of God; and unbelief is perdition, the very soul's misery. Thus is the great truth of Scripture brought down to be truth of every moment.

ORVILLE DEWEY

The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely. REV. xxii. 17.

So, when my Savior calls, I rise
And calmly do my best;
Leaving to Him, with silent eyes
Of hope and fear, the rest.

I step, I mount where He has led;
Men count my haltings o'er ;-
I know them; yet, though self I dread,
I love His precept more.

CARDINAL NEWMAN

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IN fine, the lofty and admirable state of a mind

that has got rid of its impatience may well win us to make the effort for that calm and sacred freedom. I do not doubt there is more than one who hears me that might justly say, "I would give more to obtain that calmness and self-control, it more concerns my inmost honor and happiness, than to learn ten languages or to gain tens of thousands of gold." The occasions that try us may be small; but the principle that governs us must be the greatest possible. The littleness of the events and instruments that we are dealing with is ever cheating us out of the true grandeur of life. "Greater is he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a city." A man may rule an empire, and yet not govern himself. A man may stand, brave and calm and

self-possessed, the battle's shock, that breaks into the awful house of life, and yet may be disturbed and shaken in spirit, and utterly thrown from his self-possession, by the breaking of a china jar. He may drive his car of victory through fields which epic song shall celebrate, and yet be completely upset by the snapping of a harpstring. Oh! fine and delicate and manifold and much entangled are the tissues of life which surround us; and he who brings music out of the discord, and harmony out of confusion; he who walks through life with an even temper and a gentle patience, patient with himself, patient with others, patient with difficulties and crosses, thoughtful, not of showy appearances, but of inmost realities, thoughtful of virtue and of God,- he has an every-day greatness, beyond that which is won in battle, or chanted in cathedrals, or heralded with the shout and pageantry of a triumphal procession.

ORVILLE DEWEY

Week Eightb

EMANCIPATION FROM ANGER AND WORRY

Prelude

CATCH THE SUNSHINE

Catch the sunshine! though it flickers
Through a dark and dismal cloud,
Though it falls so faint and feeble
On a heart with sorrow bowed;
Catch it quickly! it is passing,
Passing rapidly away;

It has only come to tell you
There is yet a brighter day.

Catch the sunshine! though 'tis only
One pale flickering beam of light,
There is joy within its glimmering,
Whispering, 'tis not always night.
Don't be moping, sighing, weeping,
Look up! look up like a man!
There's no time to grope in darkness.
Catch the sunshine when you can.