September 4

“’There is nothing in the drudgery og domestic duties to soften’ – you quote that. No, but a great deal to strengthen with the sense of duty done, self-control, and power. Besides, you cannot calculate how much corroding dust is kept off, - how much of disconsolate dull despondency is hindered. Daily use is not the jeweller’s mercurial polish, but it will keep your little silver pencil from tarnishing.”

STOPFORD BROOKE

“Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in anything
To do it as for Thee.

“All may of Thee partake,
Nothing can be so mean
Which with this tincture, ‘for Thy sake’,
Will not grow bright and clean.

“A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and the action fine.

“This is the famous stone
That turneth all to gold;
For that which God doth touch and own
Cannot for less be told.”

GEORGE HERBERT