Prayer
More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friends?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
—Alfred Tennyson.
The Lesson Of The Fruitless Fig Tree
And Jesus told them this parable—
“A man, who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, came to look for fruit on it, but could not find any. So he said to his gardener, ‘Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?’
“‘Leave it this one year more, Sir,’ the man answered, ’till I have dug round it and manured it. Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not you can have it cut down.'”
—Luke.
Musical Characters
Some men move through life as a band of music moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every side through the air, to every one far and near, that can listen.
—Henry Ward Beecher.
Good For Good
Do not look for wrong and evil—
You will find them if you do;
As you measure for your neighbor
He will measure back to you.
—Alice Cary.