Here is a sentence from Lord Morley: |If a man is despondent about his work the best remedy I can prescribe for him is to turn to a good biography.| He counsels him to go into the yesterdays to find inspiration for the life of to-day. Other men's attainments are bugle-calls to me. |Look unto Abraham, your father.| Look unto the blessings which waited upon his obedience! See how springs of refreshment broke out in the troubled way! God |called him and blessed him.| Rekindle your hope at his radiant triumph. Strengthen your will in his glorious persistence.

Here do I see God's mercy in the gift of memory and in the witness of history. I can turn to the yesterdays for light and quickening. |Do ye not remember the miracle of the loaves?| Yes, I can recall the grace that met me in my need, the power that made the crooked straight and the rough places plain. And I am privileged to turn the pages of other men's testimonies and read the record of the Lord's dealings with them. And so do memory and history come as helpful angel-presences to my soul.

|His love in time past
Forbids me to think
He'll leave me at last
In trouble to sink.|