edeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

--2 Timothy 2. 15.

Almighty God, may I not only approve of justice and kindness, but
practice it. Grant that I may be attentive to the call of work and
steadfast in completing it. May I be sincere to those who are dear to
me, and never falter in my support to those who are dependent upon me.
Amen.

MARCH TWENTY-SEVENTH

Alfred Vigny born 1799.

General A. W. Greely born 1847.

Sir Gilbert Scott died 1878.

It takes great strength to bring your life up square
With your accepted thought and hold it there:
Resisting the inertia that drags it back
From new attempts, to the old habit's track.
It is so easy to drift back, to sink.
So hard to live abreast of what you think.

--Charlotte Perkins Stetson.

If a person had delivered up your body to anyone whom he met in his
way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in
delivering up your own mind to be disconcerted and confounded by
anyone who happens to give you ill language.

--Epictetus.

Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly
vision.

--Acts 26. 19.

My Father, my soul sinks with shame when I think of the great moments
that I have given over to mean little things. Help me that I may
reckon more on the value of time, and live not to tolerate life, but
to have a great need for it, that day by day I may have a deeper
consciousness of its appropriate use. Amen.

MARCH TWENTY-EIGHTH

Santi d'Urbino Raphael born 1483.

Sir Thomas Smith born 1514.

Margaret (Peg) Woffington died 1760.

They may not need me,
Yet they might;
I'll let my heart be
Just in sight--

A smile so small
As mine might be
Precisely their
Necessity.

--Unknown.

You hear that boy laughing?--you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh too at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing,
be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to
another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other.

--Ephesians 4. 31.

Lord God, I pray that I may be fair, and not pass judgment on those
whom I like or those whom I dislike, and so bring unhappy reg