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Lacy edited the subjects of Thoughts for the Quiet Hour Thursday, December 8, 2011.

• Added the subject: Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Worship & Devotion

Lacy edited the first sentence of Thoughts for the Quiet Hour Thursday, December 8, 2011.

• My Father, I am coming. Nothing on the mean plain shall keep me away from the holy heights.

Lacy edited the description of Thoughts for the Quiet Hour Thursday, December 8, 2011.

• IndexOne of the brightest signs of Texts Quotedthe times is that many Christians in This Volume.our Young People's Societies and churches are observing a "Quiet Hour" daily. In this age of rush and activity we need some special call to go apart and be alone with God for a part of each day. Any man or woman who does this faithfully and earnestly cannot be more than twenty-four hours away from God.
  Genesis Exodus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges I. Samuel II. Samuel I. Kings II. Kings I. Chronicles Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song
  The selections given in this volume were first published in the monthly issues of the "Record of Christian Work," and were found very helpful for devotional purposes. They are also a mine of thoughts, to light up the verses quoted. Being of permanent value, it has been thought desirable to transfer them from the pages of Solomon ....the magazine to this permanent volume.
  
  May they have a helpful ministry, leading many into closer communion with God

Lacy edited the description of Cheerfulness as a Life Power Wednesday, July 27, 2011.

• "You have brought tears to our eyes and laughter to our hearts. Since all philosophers are agreed that laughing is preferable to weeping, your account with me stands thus:—
  
  "For tears, six times$600
  "For laughter, twelve times2,400
  ————
  $3,000
  "Kindly acknowledge receipt of enclosed check."
  
  "I find nonsense singularly refreshing," said Talleyrand. There is good philosophy in the saying, "Laugh and grow fat." If everybody knew the power of laughter as a health tonic and life prolonger the tinge of sadness which now clouds the American face would largely disappear, and many physicians would find their occupation gone.

Lacy edited the table of contents of Cheerfulness as a Life Power Wednesday, July 27, 2011.

• I.What Vanderbilt paid for Twelve Laughs
  The Laugh Cure
  A Cheap Medicine
  Why don't you Laugh?
  II.The Cure for Americanitis
  A Worrying Woman
  Our Hawaiian Paradise
  A Weather Breeder
  "What is an Optimist?
  Living up Thanksgiving Avenue
  III.Oiling your Business Machinery
  Singing at your Work
  Good Humor
  "Le Diable est Mort"
  IV.Taking your Fun Every Day as you do your Work
  Unworked Joy Mines
  The Queen of the World
  V.Finding what you do not seek
  Charles Lamb
  John B. Gough
  Phillips Brooks
  VI."Looking Pleasant"—A Thing to be worked from the Inside
  Worth Five Hundred Dollars
  The "Don't Worry" Society
  A Pleasure Book
  VII.The Sunshine-Man

Lacy edited the first sentence of Cheerfulness as a Life Power Wednesday, July 27, 2011.

• William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the city at the time, to give a private recital on board his yacht, lying in the Bosphorus.

Lacy edited the description of The Weight of the Crown by Fred M. White Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

• The blow had been so swift, so unexpected. And there was the hurt to her pride also.
  
  "Do I understand that I am dismissed, Madame?" Jessie Harcourt asked quietly. "You mean that I am to go at the end of the week?"
  
  The little woman with the faded fair hair and the silly affectation of fashion was understood to say that Miss Harcourt would go at once. The proprietress of the fashionable millinery establishment in Bond Street chose to call herself Madame Malmaison, though she was London to the core. Her shrill voice shook a little as she spoke.
  
  "You are a disgrace to the establishment," she said.

Lacy edited the first sentence of The Weight of the Crown by Fred M. White Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

• The girl stood there fighting hard to keep back the tears from her eyes.

Lacy edited the description of An Exhortation to Peace and Unity Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

• Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.-- Ephesians iv. 3.
  Beloved, religion is the great bond of human society; and it were well if itself were kept within the bond of unity; and that it may so be, let us, according to the text, use our utmost endeavours "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
  These words contain a counsel and a caution: the counsel is, That we endeavour the unity of the Spirit; the caution is, That we do it in the bond of peace; as if I should say, I would have you live in unity, but yet I would have you to be careful that you do not purchase unity with the breach of charity.
  Let us therefore be cautious that we do not so press after unity in practice and opinion as to break the bond of peace and affection.

Lacy edited the first sentence of An Exhortation to Peace and Unity Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

• Beloved, religion is the great bond of human society; and it were well if itself were kept within the bond of unity; and that it may so be, let us, according to the text, use our utmost endeavours "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."