September 14

“With his first waking consciousness, he can set himself to take a serious manly view of the day before him. He ought o know pretty well on what lines his difficulty is likely to come, whether in being irritable, or domineering, or sharp in his bargains, or self-absorbed, or whatever it be; and now, in this quiet hour, he can take a good, full look at his enemy, and make up his mind to beat him. It is a good time, too, for giving his thoughts a range quite beyond himself, - beyond even his own moral struggles, - a good time, there in the stillness, for goiug into the realm of other lives. His wife, - what needs has she for help, for sympathy, that he can meet? His children, - how can he make the day sweeter to them? This acquaintance, who is having a hard time; this friend, who dropped a word to you yesterday that you hardly noticed in your hurry, but that comes up to you now, revealing in him some finer trait, some deeper hunger, than you had guessed before, - now you can think these things over. so you get your day somewhat into right persepctive and proportion before you begin it.”

G. S. MERRIAM

“Earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.”

Christian Life