Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-12-16
THOUGHTS FOR THE
THOUGHTFUL

ThUUGhTS FUR TIKI
THOUGHTFUL.
Give us this day our daily bread, we
pray,
And give US likewise, Lord, our daily
thought,
That our poor souls may strengthen as
they ought,
And starve not on the husks OF yesterday.
-Phiuips Brooks.
The temper of the mind in which
we meet the hundred and one tiny
circumstances of every hour deter
mines our happiness or unhappiness
far more than does the detail of what
those circumstances are. We cannot
choose the circumstances, but we can
choose the temper.-Lucy H. III.
Souls6y.
The peace of him that has lived
near to God is like the quiet, steady
lustre of the lighthouse lamp, start
ling no one, ever to be found when
wanted, casting the same mild ray
through the long night across the
maddest billows that curl their crest
around the rock on which it stands.
p W. Robertson.
Why, it is asked, are there so many
snares? That We may not fly low,
but may seek things which are above.
For just as birds, so long as they
cleaye the upper air, are not easily
caught; so thou also, as long as thou
lookest at things above. wilt not
easily be captured, whether by a
snare or by any other device of evil.
l-ChrysOstOm.
! l could not ask for you a greater
| gift than that IN the future when
your autumn time of life shall come,
you may have the springtime in your
heart. There is only one life where
the new never becomes old, where
the love is always kept fresh and is
always a first love with increasing
freshness, aud that is having the
One who says, "I am the life!"-
Maryewet BOttome.
i We are not sent into this world to
do anything into which we cannot
put our hearts. We have certain
work to do for our bread, and that
is to be done strenuously; other work
to do for our delight, and that is to
be done heartily; neither is to be
done by halves and shifts, but with
a will, and what is not worth this
effort is not to be done at all.-
Carlyle.
j One of the best proofs that this
life is only preparation for another
is its incompleteness. Those who
reach the highest development that
earth can give feel as if they were
but just prepared to begin to live.
God hides some ideal in every human
soul. At some time in our life we
feel trembling longing to do some
good thing. Life finds its noblest
spring of excellence in this hidden
impulse to do our best.-Ro5ert
C'Ollyer.
i Life is what we are alive to. 1t is
not length, but breadth. To be
alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride,
money-making, and not to goodness
and kindness, purity and love, it is
to be all but dead. l do not know
when or how it may please God to
give you the quiet of mind that you
need; but | tell you that / believe it
is to be had; and in the meantime
you must go on doing your work,
Trusting in God even for this
George Macdonald.
/ The man who does not believe in
God will, of course, pay no attention
to church. But if he does believe
IL God; if he does believe in Christi
anity, it is inconceivable to us that
ne can conscientiously separate him
self from the church, give it no
support, take no part in it's work, and
go forth as sort of religious free
lance. Such a course is utterly in :
conceivable and irreconcilable with a
Christian profession. 1t is almost
treasonable.-EditOr Times Dispatch.