It is not thus with those, who, “by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality:” day by day, minute by minute, they execute the appointed task to which the requisite measure of time and strength is proportioned: and thus, having worked while it was called day, they at length rest from their labours, and their “works follow them.”
Let us then, “whatever our hands find to do, do it with all our might, recollecting that now is the proper and accepted time.”[179]
[179] From the Youth’s Magazine, for November, 1819.
June 22.
St. Paulinus, Bp. of Nola, A. D. 431. St. Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain, A. D. 303.
American Newspapers.
The following singular advertisement, appeared in the “Connecticut Courant,” of June 2, 1784.