October 5
“This is the day which the Lord hath made” (Psa. 118:24).
“This day have I payed my vows” (Prov. 7:14).
Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
—Joseph Hall.
Oh, waste them not! the minutes God has given—
Use them to soothe poor hearts by sorrow riven,
Use them to teach whom ignorance has ’slaved,
Use them to warn the wayward and depraved,
To lift the crushed, and bravely right the wronged—
Use them to learn thy God, and how to blend
Thy will with His—grow like Him. Life’s end
Draws daily near—’tis short, man’s earthly lot:
Fragments of time! O mortal, waste them not.
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