Bishop WESTCOTT. Life, a School January 10 "All life is a school, a preparation, a purpose: nor can we pass current in a higher college, if we do not undergo the tedium of education in this lower one." _Tennyson--a Memoir_, by his Son. "Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." EMERSON. "We never know for what God is preparing us in His schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the present place, whatever that may be." LYMAN ABBOTT. Character and Service January 11 "Never should we forget the close connection between character and service, between inward nobleness and outward philanthropy. We are not here to dream, or even to build up in grace and beauty our individual life; we are responsible, each in our own little way, for trying to leave this sad world happier, this evil world better than we found it. In this way slackness is infamy, and power to the last particle means duty. Each of us, in some degree, must have the ambition to be an 'Alter Christus'--another Christ, shouldering with the compassionate Son of God to lift our shadowed world from the gates of death." "What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labour." BULWER LYTTON. "'Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.' This is the principle with which we should look forth upon the world and our own life at the beginning of this year. We look upon the world; it seems as if it were sleeping still, like Rome, as if it needed as much as ever to hear the shout, 'Awake, thou that sleepest.'" STOPFORD BROOKE. Present Circumstances JANUARY 12 "Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined." MARCUS AURELIUS. "Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;--well then, he can also live well in a palace." MARCUS AURELIUS. "Of nothing can we be more sure than this: that, if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no other." MARTINEAU. Circumstances