WORK IN THE GROANING CREATION. "Who the Creator loves, created might Dreads not."-COLERIDGE, Religious Musings. "Infelix homo qui scit illa omnia, Te autem nescit; beatus autem qui Te scit etiamsi illa nesciat. Qui vero et Te et illa novit, non propter illa beatior, sed propter Te solum beatus est si cognoscens Te, sicut Deum glorificet et gratias agat, et non evanescat in cogitationibus suis."—AUG. Conf. v. 4. "We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try and make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it."—HUXLEY, Lay Sermons, p. 159. O Almighty and most merciful God, of Thy bountiful good. ness keep us, we beseech Thee, from all things that may hurt us, that we being ready, both in body and mind, may cheerfully accomplish those things that Thou wouldest have done, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. |