It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.