There is always a joy in duties performed, and promptness in the execution heightens that joy. To wait and look on a business we ought to do at once, enervates and disheartens; to arise and do it immediately, strengthens and enlarges the heart. Delay begets hesitancy and timidity; direct performance brings zeal and courage. They that wait upon the Lord renew their strength; but they that postpone till to-morrow, present duties, are weaker for them to-morrow than to-day. Promptness in duties, then, gives greater strength for new duties. Enduring hardness as a good soldier in one campaign, qualifies the Christian for more manly feats in the next. We grow on food and exercise morally the same as we do physically. Christian fortitude helps develop that noble, full stature of character and life which the gospel enjoins—gives grace to discipleship, and energy and efficiency to the churches.—Morning Star.