Take Solance and Move Forward Boldly

November 2.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race
that is set before us.

HEBREWS 12, verse 1.


When the powers of hell prevail
O'er our weakness and unfitness,
Could we lift the fleshly veil,
Could we for a moment witness
Those unnumbered hosts that stand
Calm and bright on either hand;
Oh, what joyful hope would cheer,
Oh, what faith serene would guide us!
Great may be the danger near,
Greater are the friends beside us.

ANONYMOUS.


We are compassed about by a cloud of witnesses,
whose hearts throb in sympathy with every
effort and struggle, and who thrill with joy at
every success. How should this thought check
and rebuke every worldly feeling and
unworthy purpose, and enshrine us, in
the midst of a forgetful and un-spiritual world,
with an atmosphere of heavenly peace!
They have overcome--have risen--are crowned,
glorified; but still they remain to us,
our assistants, our comforters, and in every
hour of darkness their voice speaks to us:
"So we grieved, so we struggled, so we fainted,
so we doubted; but we have overcome,
we have obtained, we have seen, we have
found,--and in our victory
behold the certainty of thy own."

H. B. STOWE.