"It is to Jesus, then, that all my life must be devoted, without him
I can do nothing. 'My life is hid with Christ in God.' He has 'bought
me with a price,' I ought, therefore, 'to glorify God in my body, and
in my spirit, which are God's.'

"Truly to live is to know, that my thoughts and actions are all
directed to the glory of Jesus, whether upon earth by faith and hope,
or in heaven by the sight and by the glory of God.

"But here below, I have only time at my disposal; that is to say,
days composed of hours or rather, I have in reality but a single day
to make use of. Yesterday is no longer mine, and to-morrow, where is
it? I have it not yet, and perhaps shall never see it.

"Lo my earthly life is 'to-day.' What must I do then with 'to-day,'
that God may be honored and glorified in it? for after all, if I have
the happiness of counting the year 1844, as dating from a Christian
era, and not from that of a false prophet with the Mahomedans, nor
yet of a false God, with the poor Indians, it must be to Jesus
Christ, from whose birth I count my years, that those years should be
dedicated.

"Here I am, therefore, in the presence of my Saviour, of whom I
implore the Spirit of wisdom and prudence to guide me in the
employment of this my day, since in reality I have but one, and that
is, 'To-day.'

"But I cannot do better than walk in the footsteps of my Redeemer,
and in his conduct and conversation whilst on earth, I observe these