"In Mrs. Charles' well-known book, 'Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta family,' there is a beautiful passage where Fritz and Eva, beginning their young life together, take into their house a penitent woman who was thought to be near death. Eva writes: 'There is a little room over the porch that we had set apart as a guest-chamber, and very sweet it was to me that Bertha should be its first inmate; very sweet to Fritz and me that our home should be what our Lord's heart is, a refuge for the outcast, the penitent, the solitary, and the sorrowful.'" "We all say we follow Christ, but most of us only follow Him and His cross--part of the way. When we are told that our Lord bore our sins, and was wounded for our transgressions, I suppose that meant that He felt as if they were His own, in His great love for us. But when you shrink from bearing your fellow-creatures' transgressions, it shows that your love is small." _Red Pottage_, MARY CHOLMONDELEY. "Radiant with heavenly pity, lost in care For those he knew not, save as fellow lives." _The Light of Asia_, E. ARNOLD. "To be Trusted is to be Saved" MARCH 17 "No one can perish in whom any spark of the Divine life is still burning. No one can be plucked out of the Saviour's hands who still struggles towards Him, however feebly and falteringly." _Life Here and Hereafter_, Canon MACCOLL. "To be trusted is to be saved. And if we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. For the respect of another is the first restoration of the self-respect a man has lost; our ideal of what he is becomes to him the hope and pattern of what he may become." _The Greatest Thing in the World_, HENRY DRUMMOND. "Coarse treatment never wins souls." God's Children MARCH 18 "Hallow the name of God, hallow His character, in all noble and good humanity.