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Day unto day uttereth speech. ? Psalms. Every yesterday is talking to, instructing, to-day. Every to-day has its word for the morrow. So each individual life progresses, so ages ripen. It is not what is new-born. Born to-day,? that is our hope, our power, our weakness, or our defeat. We live in and because of yesterdays. Their life enters into ours. They are our nurses, our instructors. They have Had us by the hand, led us step by step, little by little unfolding to us the work before, and giving little by little the helps unto its accomplishment. In nothing is the law of sequence more inevitable. In nothing does that which is more depend upon that which was. In nothing does the next step more directly hinge upon the last. Not only yesterday speaks to to-day, but what yesterday says decides what to-day is. He lives well and wisely who has the speech of each day as it goes, who hears and heeds the voice it utters; who lifts himself not into a far, indefinite future, but into the future of to-morrow, not by the vague teachings of a remote past, but by the last word of the last day in which he lived, by the things said to himself in his own experience and consciousness, not by things said to others under other conditions and to otherends. It was a very sublime truth uttered by the Psalmist, but he did not know half its meaning. With some old memory of his shepherd life (if David wrote it) or some fresh glimpsing of the skies whose twinkling hosts we so seldom think of, his thought turned toward the handiwork of God; and his language, simple, brief, grand, has gone to the uttermost parts of the earth,? a wondrous expression of that which no finite mind can ever- fully gather in, or any finite spirit utter. No mere words so completely fill us with the awed…