Take No Thought How Or What Ye Shall Speak

Take no thought how or what ye shall speak:
for it shall be given you in that same hour
what ye shall speak.

MATTHEW 10, verse 19.


Just to follow hour by hour
As He leadeth;
Just to draw the moment's power
As it needeth.

F. R. HAVERGAL.


You have a disagreeable duty to do at twelve o'clock.
Do not blacken nine, and ten, and eleven, and all
between, with the color of twelve. Do the work of
each, and reap your reward in peace. So when the
dreaded moment in the future becomes the present,
you shall meet it walking in the light, and that light
will overcome its darkness. The best preparation is
the present well seen to, the last duty done. For this
will keep the eye so clear and the body so full of light
that the right action will be perceived at once,the right
words will rush from the heart to the lips, and the
man, full of the Spirit of God because he cares for
nothing but the will of God, will trample on the evil
thing in love, and be sent, it may be, in a chariot of fire
to the presence of his Father, or stand unmoved amid
the cruel mockings of the men he loves.

G. MACDONALD.