h He is the Giver and the Lord.

_Preface to Tauler's Sermons_. 1854.

Special Providences. October 3.

And as for special Providences. I believe that every step I take, every
person I meet, every thought which comes into my mind--which is not
sinful--comes and happens by the perpetual Providence of God watching for
ever with Fatherly care over me, and each separate thing that He has
made.

_MS. Letter_.

Virtue. October 4.

Nothing, nothing can be a substitute for purity and virtue. Man will
always try to find substitutes for it. He will try to find a substitute
in superstition, in forms and ceremonies, in voluntary humility and
worship of angels, in using vain repetitions, and fancying he will be
heard for his much speaking; he will try to find a substitute in
intellect, and the worship of intellect and art and poetry, . . . but let
no man lay that flattering unction to his soul.

_Sermons on David_. 1866.

God-likeness. October 5.

"We can become like God--only in proportion as we are of use," said ---.
"I did not see this once. I tried to be good, not knowing what good
meant. I tried to be good, because I thought it would pay me in the
world to come. But at last I saw that all life, all devotion, all piety,
were only worth anything, only Divine, and God-like and God-beloved, as
they were means to that one end--to be of use."

_Two Years Ago_, chap. xix. 1856.

The Refiner's Fire. October 6.

"Not quite that," said Amyas. "He was a meeker man latterly than he used
to be. As he said himself once, a better refiner than any whom he had on
board had followed him close all the seas over, and purified him in the
fire. And gold seven times tried he was when God, having done His work
in him, took him home at last."

_Westward Ho_! chap. xiii.

The Prayer of Faith. October 7.

With the prayer of faith we can do anything. Look at Mark xi. 24--a text
that has saved more than one soul from madness in the hour of sorrow; and
it is so _simple_ and _wide_--wide as eternity, simple as light, true as
God Himself. If we are to do great things it must be in the spirit of
that text. Verily, when the Son of God cometh shall He find faith in the
earth?

_Letters and Memories_. 1843.

Mountain-Ranges. October 8.

We fancy there are many independent sciences, because we stand half-way
up on different mountain-peaks, calling to each other from isolated
station