. For the best things. luence can make a man ready for a is his own matter. There are no goodplaces for incompetency. The bane of lifeeverywhere is unreadiness. Dont be a smat-terer. If you are going into business beginat the bottom and patiently master every de-tail, no matter how long it may take or howmuch it may cost you. If you are a student,miss no lesson, for the one lesson missed to-day may be the key, ten, twenty years henceto open the door to a place of honor, andyou cannot go in if you do not hav6 the key. [220] a i^rogmmme for a J^av [221 ] ** To-day is mine: I hold it f
. For the best things. luence can make a man ready for a is his own matter. There are no goodplaces for incompetency. The bane of lifeeverywhere is unreadiness. Dont be a smat-terer. If you are going into business beginat the bottom and patiently master every de-tail, no matter how long it may take or howmuch it may cost you. If you are a student,miss no lesson, for the one lesson missed to-day may be the key, ten, twenty years henceto open the door to a place of honor, andyou cannot go in if you do not hav6 the key. [220] a i^rogmmme for a J^av [221 ] ** To-day is mine: I hold it fast,Hold it and use it as I may,Unmindful of the shadow castBy that dim thing called Yesterday, To-morrow hovers just before, A bright-winged shape, and lures me on,Till in my zeal to grasp and know her,I drop To-day—and she is gone, The bright wings captured lose their light; To-morrow weeps and seems to say,/ am To-day—ah, hold me tight!Ere long I shall be Yesterday,^ [222] CHAPTER SIXTEEN 31 l^rogtamme for a ^av. E ought to make our dayssymphonies. Some onesays, There is no dayborn but comes Kke astroke of music into theworld, and sings itself allthe way through. That is Gods thought foreach one of our days. He would not have usmar the music by any discords of our wants us to live sweetly all the day—without discontent, without insubmission,without complaining, without unlovingnessor uncharitableness. Each one of us is play-ing in Gods orchestra, or singing in Godschoir, and we ought not to strike a wrongchord or sing a discordant note all the need the divine blessing in the morning tostart the music in our hearts. It is always apitiful mistake to begin any day withoutheavens benediction. [223] The programme for the day should alwaysopen with prayer. In one of the HebrewPsalms we have a suggestion of the way weshould begin each morning. The first peti-tion of this old liturgy is, Cause me to hearthy loving-kindness in the morning. This isa prayer that the
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