What Duties Have I Left Undone
March 17.
Where hast thou gleaned today?
RUTH 2, verse 19.
What have I learnt where'er I've been,
From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
What know I more that's worth the knowing?
What have I done that's worth the doing?
What have I sought that I should shun?
What duties have I left undone?
PYTHAGORAS.
All of this world will soon have passed away.
But God will remain, and thou, whatever thou
hast become, good or bad. Thy deeds now are
the seed-corn of eternity. Each single act,
in each several day, good or bad, is a portion of
that seed. Each day adds some line, making thee
more or less like Him, more or less capable
of His love.
E. B. PUSEY.
There is something very solemn in the thought that that part of our work which we have left undone may first be revealed to us at the end of a life filled up, as we had fondly hoped, with useful and necessary employments.
SARAH W. STEPHEN.
Where hast thou gleaned today?
RUTH 2, verse 19.
What have I learnt where'er I've been,
From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
What know I more that's worth the knowing?
What have I done that's worth the doing?
What have I sought that I should shun?
What duties have I left undone?
PYTHAGORAS.
All of this world will soon have passed away.
But God will remain, and thou, whatever thou
hast become, good or bad. Thy deeds now are
the seed-corn of eternity. Each single act,
in each several day, good or bad, is a portion of
that seed. Each day adds some line, making thee
more or less like Him, more or less capable
of His love.
E. B. PUSEY.
There is something very solemn in the thought that that part of our work which we have left undone may first be revealed to us at the end of a life filled up, as we had fondly hoped, with useful and necessary employments.
SARAH W. STEPHEN.