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"As you are big for you."

--John Kendrick Bangs.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight!

--Isaiah 5. 21.

Loving Father, grant that I may not barter love with formalities, nor
sacrifice love for customs. But, may I have a fellowship that is true
and sincere, and that may be counted on, though all and for all. Amen.

APRIL EIGHTEENTH

Lord Jeffreys died 1689.

George Henry Lewes born 1817.

Sir Francis Baring born 1740.

Nor can I count him happiest who has never
Been forced with his own hand his chains to sever,
And for himself find out the way divine;
He never knew the aspirer's glorious pains,
He never earned the struggler's priceless gains.

--James Russell Lowell.

There is not time for hate, O wasteful friend.
Put hate away until the ages end.
Have you an ancient wound? Forget the wrong--
Out in my West a forest loud with song
Towers high and green over a field of snow,
Over a glacier buried far below.

--Edwin Markham.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal,
whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in
the sight of many witnesses.

--1 Timothy 6. 12.

Lord God, help me to realize the power of my life. I feel ashamed and
alarmed when I think of the grievous wrongs I may have done for greed.
May I have delight in the struggles I have made for the ways of
righteousness. Make me careful to avoid the things that debase life.
May I aspire for the highest and best. Amen.

APRIL NINETEENTH

Roger Sherman born 1721.

Lord Byron died 1824.

Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) died 1881.

Charles Darwin died 1882.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes. --Disraeli.

One sees, and the other does not see; one enjoys
an unspeakable pleasure, and the other loses that
pleasure which is as free to him as the air....
The whole outward world is the kingdom of the
observant eye. He who enters into any part of
that kingdom to possess it has a store of pure enjoyment
in life which is literally inexhaustible and
immeasurable. His eyes alone will give him a life
worth living.

--Charles W. Eliot.

Having eyes, see ye not?

--Mark 8. 18.

My Father, help me to realize that I cannot feel the joy that br