Sixth Day.

"How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?"

Regard not much who is for thee, or against thee; but mind what thou art about, and take care that God may be with thee in every thing thou doest.

As every day thy mercy spares
Will bring its trials or its cares,
O Father, till my life shall end,
Be thou my Counsellor and Friend!
Teach me thy statutes 11 divine,
And let thy will be alyys mine.

Seventh Day.

"OUR Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life

and immortality to light through the Gospel."

To each of us is this felicity offered,-a good which turns to darkness and worthlessness the splendor and excellence of the most favored lot on earth. It is offered,it cannot be forced on us; from its nature, it must be won. Immortal happiness is nothing more than the unfolding of our own minds, the full, bright exercise of our best powers; and these powers are never to be unfolded here or hereafter, but through our own free exertion. Dream not of a heaven into which you may enter, live here as you may. Immortality is a glorious doctrine. But its happiness is to be reached only through our own struggles with ourselves, only through our reaching forward to new virtue and piety. To be joined with Christ in heaven, we must be joined with him now in spirit, in the conquest of temptation, in charity and welldoing.

The saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die ;
They see the triumph from afar,
And sin and danger fly.

Eighth Day.

"LET this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Only let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ."

Instead of thinking of thy neighbors around thee, and inquiring how they behave, keep Christ in thine eye, and in thy whole conduct follow him.

On Jesus let us fix our eyes,
Bright pattern of the Christian life.
O, how benevolent and kind!
How mild, how ready to forgive!
Be his the temper of our mind,
And his the rule by which we live.

Ninth Day.

"A FAITHFUL friend is a strong defence, and he that hath found him hath found a treasure."

Hast thou a true, unselfish friend, thank God, for thou hast a treasure. And let unfailing, faithful confidence be its test. Bear blame, and hear of faults, without reproach or irritation. Suffer not love or praise to induce exaltation or conceit. Let wisdom guide, and principle rule, and affection crown your daily lives. "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man."

Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Hath made my cup run o'er,

And in a kind and faithful friend

Hath doubled all my store.

Tenth Day.

"For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found."

The human will is never so strenuous as in the renunciation of itself, and by nothing does it more build up its own energy. And who does not know, that the mind never puts forth such strength of purpose or will as in overcoming desire? And what is the highest end and benefit of this warfare with desire? It is that the mind may accumulate force of moral purpose, that the will may more sternly unconquerably resolve on the hardest duties and sublimest virtues to which God may call us.

Give me a sober mind,

A self-renouncing will,

That tramples down, and casts behind,

The baits of pleasing ill;