• How does the branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air; not by vain struggles.… It simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spontaneous growth.—Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her little booklet How to Live on Christ • Connected with Him in His love, I am more than conqueror; without Him, I am nothing. Like some railway tickets in America, I am “Not good if detached.”—Corrie Ten Boom Date: