learn daily to search out all the good that we can find in others, and to glory in spreading it abroad! O teach us also, while we strive to impress upon the erring the folly and danger of their ways, to feel a heavenly delight in throwing a veil over their failings. O Lord, incline our hearts to mercy, that we may look with pity on the faults of the erring, for we acknowledge that we have all sinned, and come short of the glory of God. May we, gracious Father! remember that the erring one has, perhaps, only stumbled in that path which we have but trod in weakness. Then, O my soul—
"Speak kindly to the erring—
Thou yet may'st lead them back,
With holy words and tones of love,
From misery's thorny track:
Forget not thou hast often sinned,
And sinful yet must be;
Deal kindly with the erring one,
As God hath dealt with thee."
January Thirteenth.
INWARD PEACE AND OUTWARD BEAUTY.
"Great peace have they who love thy law, and nothing shall offend them."—Psalm cxix. 165.
"But O how peaceful is the soul,
Where angry billows never roll!
Where all is calm, serene, at rest,
As in the smiling infant's breast."
O WHAT a lesson of wisdom did the Lord teach us when he said, "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven ." (Matt. xix. 14.)
Peace is altogether opposed to strife and contention,
