“Who knows
What earth needs from earths’s lowest creatures? No life
Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife
And all life be not purer and stronger thereby.

  ·  ·  ·   Honest work, honest sorrow,
Honest work for the day, honest hope for the morrow —
Are these worth nothing more than the hand they make wary?
The heart they have saddened, the life they leave dreary?”

Owen Meredith

Table of Contents

• Forward by JB
• Dedicatory JRM

Chapters

1. The Every-Day of Life
2. Our Debt to the Past
3. The Beatitude for the Unsuccessful
4. The Blessing of Quietness
5. On Being a Discourager
6. Making Life a Song
7. Life-Music in Chorus
8. Loving the Unseen Friend
9. The Secret of Peace
10. In Time of Loneliness
11. The Blessedness of Not Knowing
12. Words about Consecration
13. The Duty of Speaking Out
14. Learning by Doing
15. The Benediction of Patience
16. Hurting the Lives of Others
17. The Cost of Being a Friend
18. Our Unsuspected Perils
19. The Bearing of Our Burdens
20. The Influence of Companionship
21. As it is in Heaven
22. The Ending of the Day

Poetry: Index of First Lines

The Every Day of Life was published in in 1892 by Hodder & Stoughton: London. It has 283 pages.

The transcription was made by JB: a volunteer. Thank you JB.