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January 20
EVENING

Psalm
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way.

There are diverse kinds of vanity.

The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities; they wear upon their forefront their proper name and title.

Far more treacherous are those equally vain things, the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Unless we follow Christ, and make our God the great object of life, we only differ in appearance from the most frivolous.

It is clear that there is much need of the first prayer of our text.

"Quicken Thou me in Thy way." The Psalmist confesses that he is dull, heavy, lumpy, all but dead. Perhaps,