April 6

They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. — Song 1:6

Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service to the neglect of personal communion; but such neglect will not only lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the highest service. — J. Hudson Taylor.