"All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephass, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours." -1 COR. iii. 21, 22.
"As having nothing, and yet possessing all things." -2. COR. vi. 10.
OLD friends, old scenes, will lovelier be,
As more of Heaven in each we see:
Some softening gleam of love and prayer
Shall dawn on every cross and care.
-J. KEBLE
OUT of love and hatred, out of earnings, and borrowings, and lendings, and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of travelling, and voting, and watching, and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our intuition in the serene and beautiful laws. Let him not slur his lesson; let him learn it by heart. Let him endeavour exactly, bravely, and cheerfully, to solve the problem of that life which is set before him. And this, by punctual action, and not by promises or dreams. Believing, as in God, in the presence and favour of the grandest influences, let him deserve that favour, and learn how to receive and use it, by fidelity also to the lower observances.
-R. W. EMERSON
