O, for greater diligence, that the day's work may keep pace with the day.

What shall I do, but pray for more strength to be made able to do all that may be required of me.

I never saw the advice of our dear Saviour more necessary for myself than at the present time, "Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Soon after this he had a return, of his complaint in the stomach, which caused him to exclaim-- We are indeed but dust and ashes; how quickly the slender thread may be cut, and reduce this frail tabernacle to that state of earthly composition from which it was formed.

But the spiritual part in us must have an abiding somewhere _for ever_; this is the awful consideration which ought continually to affect our hearts.

Is it not a strange infatuation to rank the moments of affliction among the evil events of our lives, when these may prove the very means of bringing back our wandering feet to the path which leads to everlasting life?
He then reviews his own situation, his calling and his work.
It is often the consideration of my heart, What has brought me into this country?
what have I done?
what am I doing?
and what have I to do?
The enemy is not wanting to distress my poor mind on the point of these four important queries.