we keep in remembrance what thou hast taught in thy Word, "Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." (Luke vi. 35.) "O love the Lord, all ye his saints." (Ps. xxxi. 23.) "O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever." (Ps. cxxxvi. 1.)
January Third.
THE WISDOM OF GOD.
"Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; for wisdom and might are his."—Dan. ii. 20.
WE cannot contemplate the Wisdom of God without having the mind raised to a true devotional state. The enlightened Christian will easily comprehend that Divine Wisdom is nothing but love appearing and shining forth, presenting in universal creation, as in a bright mirror, the form of love. Wisdom is the means used by love to accomplish all its ends. Universal creation, by its beauty, by its use, and by the harmony subsisting in all its parts, must show forth from day to day that the Wisdom of God is infinite—not bounded either by angelic or human thought. O how consoling is the idea that although the Word of God transcends the highest thought of either human or angelic beings; yet such is the Divine condescension that the Wisdom of God descends and accommodates itself to the understanding and reason of man; it is thus adapted to human
