mes Audubon born 1780.

Horace Mann born 1796.

Thomas Henry Huxley born 1825.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the
universe, the rules of the game we call the laws of nature. My
metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which
Retzsch has depicted Satan playing chess with man for his soul.
Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong
angel, who is playing "for love," as we say, and would rather lose
than win, and I should accept it as an image of human life.

--Thomas Henry Huxley.

Riches and nobility fade together. O, my God! be thou praised for
having made love for all time, and immortal as thyself.

--George Sand.

He hath given food unto them that fear him:
He will ever be mindful of his covenant.
The works of his hands are truth and justice;
All his precepts are sure.

--Psalm 111. 5, 7.

Father of life, I know I cannot hold youth. I may have prosperity or
poverty. I thank thee that thou hast taught me that love may be kept
changeless through all. Amen.

MAY FIFTH

Napoleon Bonaparte died 1821.

Empress Eugenie born 1826.

Bret Harte died 1902.

As I stand by the cross, on the lone mountain's crest,
Looking over the ultimate sea,
In the gloom of the mountain a ship lies at rest,
And one sails away from the lea;
One spreads its white wings on the far-reaching track,
With pennant and sheet flowing free;
One hides in the shadow with sails laid aback--
The ship that is waiting for me.

But lo! in the distance the clouds break away,
The gate's glowing portals I see,
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay
The song of the sailors in glee.
So I think of the luminous footprints that bore
The comfort o'er dark Galilee,
And wait for the signal to go to the shore
To the ship that is waiting for me.

--Bret Harte.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

--Psalm 23. 4.

Eternal God, I praise thee, that "thy love is broader than the measure
of man's mind," and that through all my years I may hide myself in
thee, trusting thee to the end. Amen.

MAY SIXTH

Plato born B.C. 427.

Robespierre born 1758.

General Andrea Messena born 1758.

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