June 30

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.--ISA. xxxii. 17.

  The heart that ministers for Thee
    In Thy own work will rest;
  And the subject spirit of a child
    Can serve Thy children best.
A. L. WARING.

It matters not where or what we are, so we be His servants. They are happy who have a wide field and great strength to fulfil His missions of compassion; and they, too, are blessed who, in sheltered homes and narrow ways of duty, wait upon Him in lowly services of love. Wise or simple, gifted or slender in knowledge, in the world's gaze or in hidden paths, high or low, encompassed by affections and joys of home, or lonely and content in God alone, what matters, so that they bear the seal of the living God? Blessed company, unknown to each other, unknowing even themselves!
H. E. MANNING.