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October 1928
At that hour the fog lifted for just three minutes and the captain found that they were exactly opposite the port, but some o f the men were not at their posts, and before they reported for duty, the fog had again fallen and a whole night of peril followed just outside the harbor. The following verse written by Edward Everett Hale is a good motto for Chris-, tian workers: “ Look up, and not down; Look out, and not in, Look forward and not back| 8 § Lend a hand.” —o— C h o ic e N u gg ets - “ Know the true value o f time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every minute of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”— Earl o f Chesterfield. “The best general means to insure the profitable employment o f our time is to accustom ourselves to living in continual dependence upon the Spirit o f God and His law, receiving, every instant, what ever He is pleased to bestow; Consulting Him in every emergency requiring instant action, and having recourse to Him in our weaker moments when virtue seems to fail .’¡¡¡¡-Fenelon. “In the spirit o f faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to ‘redeem the time’ which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem it, and not mere ly use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.”— J. F. Clarke. “ Observe a method in the distribution o f your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut; out at every avenue, and with her thiit numerous body o f vices that make up her train.”— Bishop Horne: “ Catch ! thenjMOh, catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies; Life’s a short summer—man a flower— He dies—alas! how soon he dies!”— Dr. Johnson. “Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone for ever !”— Horace Mann. “Take time to breathe a morning pray er ; asking God to keep you from evil,, and use you for His glory during the day. Take time to read a few verses from God’s Word each day! Take time to be pleasant. A bright smile or a pleasant word falls like sunbeams upon the hearts of those around us. Take time to be polite. A gentle ‘I thank you,’ ‘If you please,’ ‘Excuse me,’ etc., even to an in ferior, is no compromise o f dignity, and you “k n o w f , ‘True politeness is to say The kindest things in the kindest way.’ Take time to be patient with children. Patience and kindness will open the way for good influence over almost any child. Take time to be thoughtfulabout the aged. Respect gray hairs, even if they crown the head of a beggar^^Christian Observer. Ignatius, when he heard a clock strike, was accustomed to say, “ Now I have one more hour to answer for.”
“’Tis not for man to trifle! Life is brief, And sin is here. Our age is but the falling o f a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. “ Not many lives, but only one have we— One, only one; How sacred should that one life ever be— That narrow span! Day after day filled with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil.” ■— Bonar. E xaltation o f th e W eak (Psa. 89:19) G REAT men often spring from hum ble conditions;. Wm. Carey, the missionary, and Robert Raikes, the pioneer o f Sunday schools, were cobblers. Charles Dickens worked
in a blacking factory. Thomas Carlyle was the son of a stone-mason, Hugh Mil ler was a mason, Robert Burns a plow man, Abraham Lincoln the son o f a poor farmer, Martin Luther of a woodman, Benjamin Franklin of a soap-boiler, Fara day o f a blacksmith, Gambetta o f a gro cer. Harvey was a farmer’s boy; the fa ther o f the poet Virgil was a slave and a porter; the father o f John Calvin was a cooper; the father of George Washington was a farmer. It may be that your class or your con gregation holds some mighty man o f God, as yet undeveloped, who will perform- great deeds for the Church as the outcome o f your faithful ministrations. The lead er o f the Bible-class which numbered young Barnardo among its members, had no thought o f the wondrous rescue of young children which was to result from the spiritual fervor which he kindled in Bafnardo’s soul. Do not be over-discour aged by the fact that you have “toiled all the night and taken nothing.”
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