January 4

"At any moment we may turn from the poor reality to the great ideal of our own lives, which is in Christ, with one earnest question, 'Lord, what would'st Thou have me to be?' We may pierce through the clouds and reach the summit, and there, seeing His vision of our possibilities . . . set to work to fulfil God's image of our lives, to be all that He has shown us that it is possible for us to be."

PHILLIPS BROOKS

"Some high or humble enterprise of good
Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind,
Become thy study, rest and food,
And kindle in thy breast a flame refined;
Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind
To this thy purpose, to begin, pursue,
With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind,
Strength to complete and with delight review,
And grace to give the praise where all the praise is due."

MRS. SIGOURNEY