Daily Reflections on Growth, Service, and Christian Life
—Recollect every day, the things seen, heard, or read which make an addition to your understanding.—Isaac Watts. — Hidden in the hollow
Of His blessed hand,
Never foe can follow
Never traitor stand.
Not a surge of worry,
Not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry
Touch the spirit there.
—Howe. —No Christian has a right to be so absorbed in private business or bound by secular work that he cannot respond to the daily call for service in the Master's vineyard, or to special and local calls.—Independent. —There is but one true, real, and right life for rational beings, only one life worth living, worth living in this world, or in any other, past, present, or to come, and that is the eternal life which was before all worlds, and will be when all are passed away; and that is neither more nor less than a good life; a life of good thoughts, good words, good deeds,—the life of Christ and God.—Kingsley. —Temptations are among the means of Christian growth. Every time that a temptation is mastered, and we are able to say, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” we add another link to our armor. When trials are courageously surmounted, the plot which is laid for our destruction is frustrated, and we outflank the enemy and cause him to retire in disorder, we feel within us a thrill of victory, and are stronger than before