For Tuesday, June 30th, 2026

Twenty-sixth Week, 

Tuesday.

Morning.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 

Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Eccles. vii. 8, 9.     

Rom. xii. 12, 14.    

Ps. xxxvii. 8.     

Prov. xvi. 32.

Evening. 

In your patience possess ye your souls. 

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 

For the Lord will not cast off forever. 

Luke xxi: 19.  

Heb. x. 36.  

Heb. xii. 1, 3.  

Lam. iii. 26, 31. 

 June 30.

"Be patient toward all men."

—1 Thess. v. 14.

"And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

— Eph. iv. 32.

The apostle, who instructs us in the loftiest Christian doctrines, does not think it beneath him to exhort us to the practice of the lowliest Christian virtues; we are not true disciples unless we seek to practise the one as well as to believe the other. "Be patient," —  it is sometimes a hard duty, and some dispositions find it peculiarly so. When we look to Jesus, we see what true patience is. How meekly He bore all and suffered all; how tenderly He reproved, instructed, watched over His own in spite of all their slowness of heart to believe! O meek and lowly Lamb of God, let me learn of Thee; and do Thou put Thy Spirit within me, to correct all those hasty, impatient feelings which are so apt to arise in my heart, and which are so displeasing in Thy sight! May I be kind, tender, and forgiving from high principle, not from mere natural feeling, to those whom I love; may I forgive as one to whom much has been forgiven; and may thoughts of Thy love make me learn love. If tempted to anger, this day may I set Thy patience before me as my pattern, and repel the temptation in Thy strength; and whatever others do to irritate or provoke, may I hear Thy voice saying to me, "Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart" — "be patient toward all men."

"Could we bear from one another

What He daily bears from us?

Yet this glorious Friend and Brother

Loves us though we treat Him thus:

Though for good we render ill

He accounts us brethren still.

June Thirtieth.

"Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience."
-- 1 Tim. 3:9. 

     WE extol Thee, O Lord, our King, as we present ourselves before Thee, through the merits of Jesus Christ, Who by His cross and precious blood, hath redeemed us from our sin. We humbly beseech Thee, O merciful Father, to pardon our offenses against Thee and Thy Holy Law; to create within us a clean heart and a right spirit; to cause the words of our months and the meditations of our hearts to be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. We bless Thy Holy Name, our Father, for Thy manifold and unceasing goodness unto us. We owe to Thee the temporal blessings of our lives, and all the opportunities we have for usefulness and happiness. Enable us, by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may enjoy and use these, and all Thy good gifts, in a worthy and acceptable manner. Be compassionate, O God, toward all the suffering, sorrowing, and sinning ones. Be the comforter of the aged, the guide of the young, the wisdom of all who teach, the ruler of all who govern, the light of all who are in darkness -- the Saviour of all mankind. Hasten, O Lord, Thy glorious appearing, and number us among those who shall receive at Thy right hand the crown of glory that fadeth not away. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.