"Therefore, beloved . . . be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless." -2 PETER iii.
HIS conscience knows no secret stings,
While grace and joy combine
To form a life whose holy springs
Are hidden and divine.
-I. WATTS
EVEN the smallest discontent of conscience may render turbid the whole temper of the mind; but only produce the effort that restores its peace, and over the whole atmosphere a breath of unexpected purity is spread; doubt and irritability pass as clouds away; the withered sympathies of earth and home open their leaves and live; and through the clearest blue the deep is seen of the heaven where God resides.
-J. MARTINEAU
THE state of mind which is described as meekness, or quietness of spirit, is characterized in a high degree by inward harmony. There is not, as formerly, that inward jarring of thought contending with thought, and conscience asserting rights which it could not maintain.
T. C. UPHAM
