Time and Eternity.

Thou wilt show me the path of life; in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.—Psalms xvi, 11.

What if earth be but the shadow of heaven? And things therein each to the other like, more than on earth is thought?-Milton.

When we shall die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams, we have only lost our sleep.

-Jean Paul F. Richter.

I.

Delay is Loss.

Say not unto thy neighbor: Go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when it is in thy power to do it to-day.-Proverbs iii. 28.

HUN delays, they breed remorse;

Take thy time while time doth serve thee;

Creeping snails have weakest force,

Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when soonest wrought,

Linger'd labors come to naught.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last,

Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure;
Seek not time when time is past,
Sober speed is wisdom's leisure.
After-wits are dearly bought,
Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought.

Time wears all his locks before,

Take thy hold upon his forehead;
When he flies he turns no more,

And behind his scalp is naked.
Works adjourn'd have many stays,
Long demurs breed new delays.

Seek thy salve while sore is green,
Fester'd wounds ask deeper lancing;
After-cures are seldom seen,

Often sought, scarce ever chancing;
Time and place give best advice,

Out of season, out of price.

ROBERT SOUTHWELL.

II. The passing Day Holds Lasting Good.

Blessed be God, Who loadeth us daily, because

He is the God of our salvation.—Psalms lxviii. 19.

WAKE, my brother, and delay not to cure thyself of the disease of pride and arrogance, nor be prevented therefrom because thou seest others delay to cure themselves, nor say, "Let happen to me what happens to them." For it is not probable that a blind person will delay to avail himself of the remedies which are at hand and say: "Let happen to me what happens to my companions in blindness." Therefore look to thyself and exert all thy strength; nor reject what may avail thee both in this world and the world to come, lest thou die without having attained the precious benefits within thy reach; as The Wise One said (Prov. xxi. 25): The desire of the slothful killeth him. And again (xxiv. 30), I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and