Those things which are not practicable are not desirable. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish. If we cry like children for the moon, like children we must cry on. E. BURKE.

Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour
There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower;
The earth was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled.

ANON.

In peace to rest till that great trumpet call. R. C. TRENCH. The messenger of our Heavenly Father, by which He calls us to the full enjoyment of our eternal happiness.

September 22.

To their babblings leave

DRELINCOURT.

The crowd. Be as a tower, that firmly set
Shakes not its top for any wind that blows.

DANTE.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. MENCIUS, B.C. 400.

Within my heart I feel

The bond of nature draw me to mine own,
My own in thee, for what thou art is mine.
Our state cannot be severed: we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

God has given us this repose.

MILTON.

VIRGIL.

Be it well with my soul which I commend to Thee, but may my flesh rest in hope to be raised again at the last day.

THOMAS À Kempis.

September 22.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours. Do not be afraid; if all the evil things in the universe were around us they could not come into the ring that He makes about us. He always keeps a place for Himself and His child into which no other being can enter.

GEO. MACDONALD.

The sound of thy voice shall be my music.

COLERIDGE.

A blissful certainty, a vision bright
Of that rare happiness, which even on earth
Heaven gives to those it loves.

To join the spirits of the just
Your chosen hath departed;
Be comforted, be comforted,

LONGFELLOW.

Ye bruised and broken-hearted. M. R. H.

September 24.

Temper your heat and lose not, by too sudden rashness, that which, be but patient, will be offered to you. MASSINGER.

See thou that thine aim reacheth unto higher than thyself. Proverbial Philosophy: TUPPER.

Marriage is a thing pure as light, sacred as a temple, lasting as the world. Here kindness is spread abroad, and love is united and made firm as a centre.

Never here, for ever there,

JEREMY TAYLOR.

Where all parting, pain, and care,

And death and time, shall disappear:

For ever there, but never here. LONGFELLOW.

The finished gem is borne,

Its light upon the sovereign's crown to yield.

MRS. CHARLES.

September 24.

To be in the world, but not of it; to use it without abusing it—this is the duty which we find it so hard to follow; but it is the very duty which Abraham first, and our blessed Lord afterwards, have set before us. Sermons in the East: STANLEY.

The sum of all that makes a just man happy consists in the well choosing of his wife. MASSINGER.

Provided a woman is well principled she has dowry enough.

PLAUTUS.

Harmonious bells below, raising the dead,

To lead them into life and rest. GEO. HERBEert.

Where angels minister,

And more than angels share, and raise, and crown, And eternize the birth, bloom, and burst of bliss. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

September 26.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance—a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.

CARLYLE.

Next to a good wife, no wife is best.

ANON.

Put not on the garb of black here for those who have taken on their white raiment there. S. CYPRIAN.

Safe from the tempest, in the Haven landing,
From storms, from toils, from rocking billows freed.

ANON.