The Quiet Hour
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"In quietness and confidence shall be your 
strength" (Isaiah 30:15).  

We need the quiet hour to keep the body in tone. 
A woman, weary, fretful, sick, went to her doctor. 
After listening to the recital of her complaints, 
he said, "What you need is to read your Bible more." 
She was inclined to resist the suggestion; but the 
doctor said, "Go home; read your Bible one hour 
each day, and in a month come back."

At the end of the month she returned. Looking in 
her face, he said: "You have been an obedient 
patient: do you think you need any other medicine?"

"No; but how did you know that was what I needed?" 
she replied.  

Taking up his well-worn Bible, the doctor said: 
"If I were to omit my daily reading in this Book, 
I should lose my greatest source of strength and 
skill."

The quiet hour is good for the body.

We need the quiet hour to deepen the spiritual life.

The quiet hour should be carried into the work of 
the whole day by "practicing the Presence of God."

- H. F. Shupe