by J R Miller
December 1
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? - Proverbs 23:5
People are badly cheated in this world. They imagine that the things they can see are the real things, the gold, lands, and stocks are the true treasures. So they toil for those things and gather them into their possession, piling up what they suppose to be wealth. Thus they live in pomp, with their fine houses, and all their brilliant show. They call themselves millionaires. But one day their supposed riches take to themselves wings and fly away like eagles. Or they mat keep their wealth, perchance, and die at lasting the midst of it, and have a great funeral; but they find that they cannot carry a penny of it with them. "How much did he leave?" was asked about a rich man who had died. "He left it all," was the answer.
If men only knew that there are things which will never fly away, they would no longer live for the wealth that perisheth; they would pass by thee glittering unrealities to lay hold of the true riches. He who is rich toward God is the millionaire.
December 2
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. - Mark 12:27
Jesus is the only Teacher whose words concerning the other world we may safely believe. Other men only speculate; Jesus knows the things He declares. There is impenetrable mystery about the grave. Where are the dead? Is there anything after death? The words of Jesus to the Sadducees seem very plain, and they tell us much that we are eager to know. When He says of the dead that they are "as angels in heaven," He probably has reference only to one matter, that they make up one community, and are not gathered again in separate families, as on earth.
The teaching of Jesus concerning the nature of death itself is far from important. "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." That is, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were not dead, but living that day at the burning bush. Moses and Elijah were living, too, in Christ's own time, for they visited Him on the Transfiguration Mount. So our loved ones who believed in Christ are living just as really as ever they lived.
December 3
Go your way into the village: … as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied. - Mark 11:2
Jesus always knows what we will find on any road we may take. He knows what each and every to-morrow will be for us. We cannot map out a single day, but He knows all. Our life is not a haphazard thing. The events and incidents of our days are not accidents. They are all foreseen by our Lord, and are part of His plan for us. We meet a stranger. We say we met him by chance; but that chance meeting shapes all our future. Christ knew about it,
If we understand this it cannot but give confidence to us as we go out day by day into life's unopened paths. We do not know what lies before us - what experiences, duties, obstacles and hindrances, what sorrows and trials; but there is One who sees and knows it all, and He is our Friend and Guide. If we are ready simply to do His will, to follow His instructions, we shall find all prepared for our coming.
December 4
But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him. - Matthew 12:2
The Pharisees were very close observers of what Jesus did. They went along with Him, not because they loved to be with Him, but as spies upon His conduct. The behavior of good people is watched by un-friendly eyes. Hence we should live most carefully, so as to give no cause for blame. At the same time the example of Christ's disciples here shows us that we are not to be slaves of opinions which have no foundation in the Word of God.
Another lesson is, that we can find better business than playing spy on the lives and conduct of our fellow men. The unfriendly espionage of the Pharisees on the actions of our Lord and His disciples was most mean and contemptible for us to watch our fellow Christians, just to discover faults in them. Suppose they do not live as they should live; do we have to answer for their conduct? Perhaps our sin of un-charitableness in judging may be as great as the sin in them, which we are so quick to condemn.
December 5
Peter, James, and John his brother. - Matthew 17:1
Jesus had His special friendships. All the apostles belonged to His personal family, but there were three who enjoyed closest intimacy with Him. In the Garden of Gethsemane these three were chosen to be nearest to Him, that by their sympathy they might strengthen Him and thus help Him to endure His sore agony.
There must have been something in these three men which fitted them for the place in the inner circle to which they were admitted. It was not mere blind partiality in Jesus that made them the His best-beloved. We know that the holiest get nearest to Christ. Faith also brings us near, while doubt and unbelief separate. Purity of heart brings us close - The pure in heart shall see God. Likeness to Christ fits for personal friendship.
Jesus said that those who serve most self-forgetfully are first in His kingdom. Selfishness keeps us far off. It is a comfort to find Peter, though very faulty, was admitted to closest friendship with Christ.
December 6
There appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with Him. - Matthew 17:3
For about nine hundred years Elijah had been in heaven, and for more than fourteen hundred years Moses had been away from this world, but both reappear here, still living, speaking, and working. There are many proofs of immortality; here is an illusion - we see two men, centuries after they had lived on earth, still alive and busy in God's service. It will be the same with us and our friends - thousands of years after we have vanished from earth we shall still be living and active.
It is interesting to think of the talk which these two men had with Jesus. They were sent to strengthen Him as He set out for His cross. He would have bitter sorrows, and they came to speak their word of cheer. No doubt His heart was stronger because of this visitation. May there not be a hint in this of the kind of employment that shall fill the hands of the redeemed in the other life? Possibly we may be sent to distant worlds, on errands of love, to carry help to weary ones.
December 7
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? - Matthew 18:1
The Bible does not hide the faults of its saints. It paints them just as they are, blemishes and all. The disciples of Jesus joined in an unseemly scramble for office, thinking their Master was to be a king. There are ambitions and scrambles of the same kind, even among good people, in our own day. Of course it is no excuse for them that Christ's apostles set the example. We ought to be a good deal better than the apostles were, for we have more light, greater privileges and better opportunities.
There is one right way of wishing to be great in Christ's kingdom. It is right for us to long to be great Christians; that is, have much of the spirit of Christ. One used to pray, "Lord, make me an uncommon Christian." That was right. Paul pressed ever toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God. A hymn gives the prayer of many hearts: "Nearer, my God, to Thee." If it is spiritual greatness we long for, it is a mark of living faith. To be satisfied as we are is a mark of death.
December 8
Watch, therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. - Matthew 24:42
The command to watch rings out continually in the Bible. We are bidden to watch against temptation, for sin's approaches are insidious. Here, however, the watching is to be in readiness for a stupendous event - the coming of Christ. His coming will be unannounced. The only way, therefore, to be ready when the event occurs, is to be always ready. If there is an hour when we relax our diligence and cease to watch, that may be the hour when He will come.
There is a legend of a man who waited a thousand years before the gates of Paradise, watching for them to open. At last he slept for but one hour. Yet during that hour the gates opened and were closed again, and thus he missed his one opportunity of entering.
The second coming of Christ will be so sudden that no preparation can be made for it after He appears. We must live so that there will not be a moment when we would be ashamed to have Christ come into our place of business and find us as we are.
December 9
Jesus held His peace. - Matthew 26:63
The striking thing about the trial of Jesus was that His enemies could find nothing against Him. It is worth our while, too, to notice how Jesus answered the calumnies and false witnessings - He was silent to all the charges. It is well we should remember how our Master bore Himself when He was wronged. We should not vex ourselves over unkind treatment from others. It is a great lesson, to learn to be silent under injury. We talk altogether too much. Yet there come times when we must speak, when it would be treason to truth to remain silent. Jesus answered not a word before His accusers, until the high priest adjured Him to say whether He was the Messiah or not. At once He broke silence. We must never be silent when the interests of right and truth demand that we speak.
The saddest thing in all that night to Jesus was the denial by His greatest apostle. We give Him joy by being faithful and true to Him; we grieve Him by every act or word or thought of disloyalty.
December 10
Jesus… saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them. - Mark 6:34
He carried the people's sorrows. When He looked upon grief, He felt grief in His own soul. When He looked upon the great throng of people who flocked after Him and saw among them so many suffering ones - lame, sick, blind, palsied - His compassions were stirred. That same compassion exists still in the breast of the risen Lord in glory. He did not lose His tenderness of heart when He was exalted to heaven. "We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." It ought to be a great comfort in any sorrow of ours to know that from heaven Jesus looks upon us in deep sympathy, and that His compassions are stirred by every pain and need of ours.
The special thing in this company that so moved Christ was that the people were as sheep not having a shepherd. Many men seem prosperous in our eyes, and yet when Christ looks upon them He is moved with compassion because they know not God.
December 11
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee. - Matthew 3:13
It is interesting to think about the thirty silent years which Jesus spent in Galilee. During this time He had been living a quiet life in a lowly home. He had employed all His wondrous power in doing common things. He spoke in the temple about doing the Father's business, and then for eighteen years lived in a humble home doing only the plain, common things of the day.
We need not repine at our limited sphere, nor sigh for more room for our powers, since in a mechanic's occupation, in a peasant home, in an obscure village, the Lord of glory for thirty years found room for His great life.
We should notice, too, that Jesus was in no hurry to enter upon His public ministry. He took plenty of time to prepare for His work. Many young people in these days are in such haste to get into their calling that they can scarcely wait to prepare for it. Years spent in diligent preparation for life are never wasted years.
December 12
The heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. - Matthew 3:16
This was God's answer to the consecration of the Messiah. A great many tender thoughts cluster around the dove. It was the dove that the very poor were allowed to bring to the altar as an offering, in place of a more costly sacrifice. The appearance of the dove was a harbinger of coming spring. It was always remembered, too, by the Jews in connection with the abatement of the deluge, when the dove returned to the ark bearing the olive leaf; and the dove has become among all nations an emblem of peace. The dove was referred to by Christ as a sign of gentleness and harmlessness in life.
All these associations made the dove a fitting emblematic form for the Holy Spirit to assume when descending upon Jesus. Jesus came to be a sacrifice for all, even the poorest. He came as the spring comes, bringing life to the dead world. He came bearing a message of peace to every one. And He is like the dove in gentleness and harmlessness.
December 13
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit… to be tempted. - Matthew 4:1
This was just after Christ's anointing for His ministry. He had received the Holy Spirit, and had heard the voice from heaven proclaiming His Messiahship. An old writer says, "All the while our Saviour stayed in His father's shop and meddled only with carpenter's chips, the devil troubled Him not; now that He was to enter more publicity upon His mentorship, the tempter pierceth His tender soul with many arrows by solicitation to sin."
Temptation was part of Christ's preparation for His ministry. He was not ready to enter upon His work as our Redeemer until He had met and overcome the tempter. We know that He is able to deliver us out of the hands of Satin, because He overcame in His own battles.
Another reason why Jesus was tempted at the beginning of His ministry was that He might understand from personal experience the power of temptation, and thus be prepared to sympathize with us in our temptations.
December 14
He was afterward an hungred. …The tempter came. - Matthew 4:2-3
The devil watches for seasonable times. He knows when to bring his temptation to bear upon a man. Everyone has his weak hours, and Satan lies in wait for these hours. He does not tempt us with something we do not want, but with something that will appeal to a craving of our nature. Satan watches, and when he finds us weak and weary, he takes advantage of our condition. Thus he came to Elijah after the strain of Carmel and caused him to flee. He comes to the lonesome and homesick boy, tempting him to seek company that will ruin him.
He adapts his temptations to our special experiences. Jesus was hungry, after His long fasting, and Satan tempted Him to use His divine power to turn stones into bread. Many temptations come to people who are hungry. They are tempted to steal, to be dishonest, or in some way to sell themselves to get bread. We need always learn to trust the keeping of our souls to Him who has overcome the tempter.
December 15
If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. - Matthew 4:3
If Jesus had turned one of the flat stones at His feet into a loaf of bread to break His own fast, would He have sinned? Why would it have been a sin for Him to do this? For one thing, he would then have taken His guidance from Satan, instead of from the Father.
Another reason was, that He was in this world to live as men must live. He was to meet life as we must meet it. If He had continually used His divine power to help Him over the hard points, He would not have understood our life, for we cannot do this. Therefore He never wrought a miracle for Himself to make life easier. It would have been a violation of this law of His life if He had wrought this miracle to feed His hunger.
Then, again, it would have been distrusting His Father. He was under divine care, and God had given Him no command to make bread of the stones. We too must stand where God puts us, and wait for Him to bring help in His own way.
December 16
And Jesus… saw two brethren… casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. - Matthew 4:18
It is interesting to notice the kinds of persons Christ sought for disciples. He wanted men who could be influenced by Him for good, whom He could train in the ways of His kingdom. It may be noticed, too, that He did not take those who were unemployed: He went among those who were busy in their common work.
Jesus is always looking for men to enter with Him into the work of His kingdom. He does not choose those who are wise in this world's wisdom, for they might not readily accept the wisdom which He teaches. He goes among those who are simple-hearted, warm-hearted, and who are busy at their duty of the day. God found a king for Israel in a boy keeping sheep. He found a prophet to succeed Elijah in a young man ploughing in the field.
If we would be chosen to take part in Christ's work, we must seek to be ready for it, with warm heart, mind open to receive truth, and ready for any service to which God may call us.
December 17
For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. - Matthew 6:5
They do not pray to God at all, and their aim is not to receive blessings in answer, but to have men think that they are devout. They have their reward - that is, they get what they pray for: men see them.
We need to guard against an expression of our religion for men's eyes, and not for God's. It were better if we gave our gifts without any thought of praise or commendation, simply for the sake of Christ, and for the helping of others.
We should train ourselves to do our good deeds without seeking praise. Florence Nightingale, having gone like an angel of mercy among the hospitals in Crimea, until her name was enshrined deep in every soldier's heart, asked to be excused from having her picture taken, as thousands begged her to do, that she might drop out and be forgotten, and that Christ alone might be remembered as the Author of the blessings which her hand had distributed in His name.
December 18
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought. - Matthew 6:25
One does not meet many whose faces shine always with the light of a perfect peace. Is worrying a sin, or is it only an infirmity? There certainly are many warnings in the Bible against it. Isaiah gives the secret of an unanxious life: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." Paul exhorts against worrying, and tells us how to keep it out of our life: "In nothing be anxious." But how can we obey this council? The answer is: "In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Instead of worrying about matters, we are to put them out of our hands into God's by prayer. Then "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus." Peter puts the lesson in this way: "Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He careth for you." This is a lesson which we are to learn, and which we are to strive to live out in our common days.
December 19
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness: and all these things shall be added unto you. - Matthew 6:33
We are to put all our energy into one effort - to do God's will. We are not to be anxious about raiment or food - that is God's matter. We are to take thought, however, about our duty, the filling of our place in the world. Too many people worry far more about food and raiment, lest they shall be left to want, than about doing the will of God. That is, they are more anxious about God's part in their life than about their own. They fear that God may not take care of them, but they do not fear that they may fail in faithfulness.
We should learn once for all that providing for our wants is God's matter, not ours; and that our only care should be our duty. This God will never do for us, but if we are true to Him we shall never have any occasion to fret about our care. Suppose we are starving? Well, we must continue doing our duty in the circumstances, and not worrying; and in due time the Lord will provide.
December 20
He saw a man… sitting at the receipt of custom. - Matthew 9:9
The men who collected the toll were a low class of Jews. As a rule they were dishonest, extortioners, men who robbed the people by overtaxing them. As Jesus passed this booth by the seaside, that day, he looked in and saw the very man he wanted. It was not the publican, as he then was, that attracted Jesus, but the man who would emerge under the influence of divine love. As Michael Angelo saw his wondrous statue of the young David in the soiled and castaway block of marble, so Jesus saw in the outcast Levi the apostle whose name is now so honoured.
"Each human soul is like a cavern full of gems. The casual observer glances into it through some cranny, and all looks dark and sullen. But let light enter it, lift a torch up to the walls, let God's sunlight fall into it and flood its open recesses, and lo! It will flash with crystals and with amethysts, and each separate crystal will quiver under the touch of brightness with a transporting discovery of its own nature."
December 21
Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? - Matthew 9:15
Christianity is a religion of sincerity, and not empty forms. The Jews had drifted away from spiritual religion, and in consequence had multiplied meaningless ceremonies. They may have been in the midst of joy and gladness, but when the prescribed hour for fasting came they out on their sackcloth and other marks of sorrow, began to wear sad looks, and entered upon the set period of mourning. Such a practice led to insincerity. Ofttimes it was an utterly false expression of the inner life.
Jesus struck a blow at this hollowness, and refused to conform to it. Fasting is a symbol of mourning, of sorrow; to go through the form of fasting, therefore, when the heart is joyous, is only a farce. When there is an occasion for mourning, let there be a mourning, but not otherwise. That is, Jesus teaches that our religion must always be sincere, never affected or hypocritical. He condemns as sacrilegious all over expressions of religious emotion or feeling.
December 22
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican. - Matthew 10:3
It is remarkable how little we know about most of the apostles. Peter, James, and John, we know quite well. Matthew we know by the Gospel he wrote. Thomas we remember by his doubts. James, the son of Alph?, wrote an epistle. Another Judas, not Iscariot, left us a little letter. Of the rest we know almost nothing but their names.
No doubt one reason why no more is told about the apostles is that the Bible magnifies only one name. The Gospels were written to hold up Christ before the world. We need not trouble ourselves about the obscurity of great men. Earth keeps scant records of its benefactors, but there is a place where every smallest kindness done in the name of Christ is recorded and remembered. The stories of the obscure apostles and of the beautiful lives which have wrought God and for man have vanished, but are recorded indelibly before God. Their memorials are in other lives, and some day every touch and impression will be revealed.
December 23
Then began He to upbraid the cities wherein most of His mighty works were done, because they repented not. - Matthew 11:20
Even Christ's work sometimes seemed to fail of results. We should not then be cast down if sometimes our work does not appear to yield any results. It may be no fault of ours that there is no harvest. It certainly was no fault of Jesus if His work was not always successful.
There is something else in these words: mercy rejected is changed to judgement. Jesus had long poured out His grace upon these cities. He had lived among the people; they knew His life. He had wrought miracles of healing before their eyes and spoken words of truth in their ears. But they had rejected all His teachings and shut their hearts against His love. So now He upbraids them. Even Christ's denunciations are full of tears. Yet we must not think that He was incapable of severity. He whose love glowed in such infinite tenderness on the cross will sit on the throne of judgement and His presence will smite terror into the hearts of all His enemies.
December 24
They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. - Luke 1:6
It is a beautiful thing that we read of this good, old couple, Zacharias and Elisabeth, that they were righteous before God. Some people appear to men to be righteous, who before God have no such record. Real character is what our hearts are, our hearts make us. We ought not to be satisfied with doing well the things which men can see; we ought to work and live ever for God's eye. Sometimes we say it is no matter how we do certain things, because nobody will see them. But we should remember that God will see them, and surely we should never do careless, faulty work for His eye.
The word "commandments" suggests that the holiness of these people was of a very practical kind. Some people's religion is chiefly emotional. They talk about loving God, but they pay little heed to the commandments. God is pleased with ardent devotions, but He wants us to prove our religion by obediences, but doing the things He gives us to do.
December 25
On earth peace. - Luke 2:14
There is a beautiful verse in one of the old prophets which says: "I know the thoughts which I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil." All God's thoughts toward us are thoughts of peace. Even in our sins His thoughts are only of love. He does not desire the sinner's death, but that he would repent and live.
The coming of Christ to live, suffer, and die for our redemption was one of God's thoughts of peace, the most wonderful of them all. It showed how much God loves us, what He was willing to do to make peace for us. Christ first made peace for us by bearing our sins. From the cross went forth the proclamation, offering peace to all who would accept it. Jesus said: "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you." Then Paul says: "The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus." So, everywhere the gospel goes, with its message of peace to them that are afar off and to them that are nigh.
December 26
The shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing. - Luke 2:15
Here we see the simple faith of these shepherds. They raised no doubt, asked no questions, expressed no feeling of uncertainty. They had the faith of little children. They did not say, "let us go and see if this thing is true;" but, "Let us go and see this thing." We are too apt to doubt, and to ask for more proof. It is better for us to believe without questioning, and then to go at once to find and see what the Word of God promises.
The shepherds were so sure that they should find the Babe lying in a manger that they once hurried away into the town to begin their search. It would be well for us if we had faith as simple and as earnest. In the next verse we read: "They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger." In like manner whatever the divine promise may be, if we believe it and hasten to seek the promised blessing, we shall find it Justas the Word of God says we shall.
December 27
He went down with them,… and was subject unto them. - Luke 2:51
Jesus went back to Nazareth, where He remained obeying His parents, and proving in all ways dutiful, reverent, and helpful. He found childhood in a lowly home a large place enough for His divine life.
Browning represents Gabriel taking the place of a poor boy and working for him at his lowly trade, as content as if he was engaged in the highest service. But here is something sublimer than even the poet's fancy. Should any child, however great his gifts, consider the child-place in a home unworthy, since the Son of God found the Father's business for so many years in such a humble home? "A life spent in brushing cloths and washing crockery and sweeping floors - a life which the proud of the earth would treat as the dust under their feet - a life spent at the clerk's desk, a life spent in the narrow shop, a life spent in the laborer's hut, may yet be a life so ennobled by God's loving mercy that for the sake of it a king might gladly yield his crown.'
December 28
That put far away the evil day. - Amos 6:3
We are taught not to borrow trouble. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." It is not right for us to look forward, imagining troubles that may come to us after a while, or even forecasting trials which we must meet by and by. The true Christian way of living is to do the duty of the present day faithfully and well, leaving all the issues in God's hands.
But if a man has a note of a thousand dollars to meet on a certain day, it will not do for him to put off all thought about the matter until the day comes to find him unprepared. He must get ready to pay the note when it falls due. We must lay up in summer days, when harvests are golden, for winter days, when it will not be possible for us to gather food. We must prepare for the days of old age by activity, diligence, economy, and carefulness in the days of early manhood. We must prepare for the day of judgement by living in such a way that when we stand before Christ we shall not be afraid.
December 29
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. - Proverbs 1:7
You may set down six ciphers - 000,000 - and they count for nothing; but if you put a five or any figure before them they all count - 5,000,000. Human knowledge alone only adds up a row of ciphers. A young man goes through his medical or law school and is graduated with honors, a learned man, but not yet a Christian. His acquirements make only a long row of ciphers. These will be elements of power if he only gets in before them something that counts. Then he gives himself to Christ, consecrates all his attainments to Him, and every one of his acquirements assumes a high value. He has written a figure before the row of ciphers, and 000,000,000 has become 6,000,000,000.
The more a man knows, the more of a man he is, if he loves, reverences, and obeys God. But this is the first thing in all true wisdom. Not to have it, is to make failure out of life; and the greater the other acquirements the greater the failure.
December 30
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord. - Proverbs 3:11
The Bible always talks to us as children. It comes with a Father's authority, and also a Father's gentleness. It is hard, however, not to despise chastening. Of course, it is not possible that we should really find pleasure in being chastened. That is not natural. Indeed the Bible says, "No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous." Not even the grace of God in our hearts can take the sting out of chastening. We are not expected then to like it. But we are told not to "despise" it. That is, we are to accept it without murmuring.
It will help us to receive chastening meekly, in faith and love, if we remember that it is "of the Lord." He sends it. We know that He loves us with infinite affection. He would not take pleasure therefore in causing us pain, nor would He do it at all, were it not in some way for our good. It is because He loves us and would do us good that He sends or permits the suffering.
December 31
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalm 90:12
The last day of a year should make us thoughtful. We cannot but ask whether we have been faithful, whether we have done all our duty, and whether we have learned the lessons set for us during the year. There is none who has not come short, and who has left no duty undone. There is none who has left no white page blotted.
One purpose of life is that we may grow, that in all the experiences of our days we may be learning new lessons and becoming better. Growth of the body is not all, nor is growth in knowledge the test of living. One may be physically stronger and yet be no better in character. One may know a great deal more and yet be no wiser. We are growing only when the peace of our heart is becoming deeper, when we love more and are gentler, sweeter, and more unselfish. We shall want to make this last day of the year very beautiful - beautiful enough to be the last of our life. We should leave no duty undone when its last hour strikes.
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