...addition to that increasing class of fictions, which teach how ' The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves — a road To bring us daily nearer God.' * The Birthday' is equal, probably, in intention, but certainly inferior in execution, to the two we...

...tempted in his own ways, and in his own occupations ; that The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God. These offices in which he accuses himself -of occasional distraction were ordinarily Thomas's great...

...daily engagements ?" " Do you remember those lines, Clara? — ' 'tt'e need not bid, for cloister" d cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish nil we ought to ask,— Eoom to deny ourselves, — a road To bring us daily nearer God." The heart...

...our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. 13 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : H The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves...

...wisdom talk, Along life's dullest, dreariest walk ! 3 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : 4 The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves...

...cheerful performance of these that God is most glorified. " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; \ Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us nearer unto God." emotions are in reality nothing more than instincts ; and not having the glory of...

...elastic than that it should be confined by geographical bounda* E. g. " We need not bid for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high, For mortal men beneath the sky." "Christian Year"— Mormng Hymn. This, as it stands without relief, sounds...

...protection, he left her, no longer " afraid to pray." CHAJTEB XIII. " We need not bid for cloister'd cell Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky." Keble. " I HATE devoted this whole day to lodging-hunting," said Mr. Huntingford, the evening of the...

...gleam of love and prayer Shall dawn on every cross and care. The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Only, O Lord, in Thy dear love Fit us for perfect rest above, And help us this, and every day, To live...

...of life wherein God has placed us, and to remember that " The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask ; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us, daily, near to God." The life of Bede was happy, because it was (pent entirely in the service of God ; and...