Daily Strength for Daily Needs

Daily Strength for Daily Needs

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DAILY STRENGTH FOR DAILY NEEDS

By Mary Wilder Tileston

Selected by the Editor of "Joy and Strength for the Pilgrim's Day," "Quiet Hours," etc.
"As thy days, so shall thy strength be"

PREFACE
This little book of brief selections in prose and verse, with accompanying texts of
Scripture, is intended for a daily companion and counsellor. These words of the goodly
fellowship of wise and holy men of many times, it is hoped may help to strengthen the
reader to perform the duties and to bear the burdens of each day with cheerfulness and
courage.
MARY WILDER TILESTON.

January 1
They go from strength to strength.--PS. lxxxiv. 7.
_First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear_.--MARK. iv. 28.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy
low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a
dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's
unresting sea!
O. W. HOLMES.
High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God,
even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start
on some fresh march of faithful service. And, looking higher still, we find those who
never wait till their moral work accumulates, and who reward resolution with no rest;
with whom, therefore, the alternation is instantaneous and constant; who do the good
only to see the better, and see the better only to achieve it; who are too meek for transport,
too faithful for remorse, too earnest for repose; whose worship is action, and whose
action ceaseless aspiration.
J. MARTINEAU.

January 2
_The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even

for evermore_.--PS. cxxi. 8.
Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.--PS. xc. 1.
With grateful hearts the past we own; The future, all to us unknown, We to Thy guardian
care commit, And peaceful leave before Thy feet.
P. DODDRIDGE.
We are like to Him with whom there is no past or future, with whom a day is as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, when we do our work in the great
present, leaving both past and future to Him to whom they are ever present, and fearing
nothing, because He is in our future as much as He is in our past, as much as, and far
more than we can feel Him to be, in our present. Partakers thus of the divine nature,
resting in that perfect All-in-all in whom our nature is eternal too, we walk without fear,
full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which
He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
G. MACDONALD.

January 3
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.--DEUT. xxxiii. 25.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.--MATT. vi. 34.
Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear The burden of to-morrow? Sufficient for to-day, its
care, Its evil and its sorrow; God imparteth by the way Strength sufficient for the day.
J. E. SAXBY.
He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and
peevishness,