mediate task which life demands from us in the
understanding of ourselves and of others is, therefore, to interpret
our ideas, to draw the consequences of our will, to appreciate the
attitudes, to measure them by higher standards.

--Hugo Muensterberg.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

--Genesis 1. 26.

My Creator, I pray that I may not only have the desire to know life,
but the assurance to live it. Help me to understand that my earthly
possessions are not the measure of my life, nor my body the boundary
of my living. May I reach for the high standards that are free,
without limit, to all. Amen.

JUNE SECOND

Ethelbert baptized 597.

John Randolph born 1773.

Thomas Hardy born 1840.

In battle or business, whatever the game,
In law or in love, it is ever the same:
In the struggle for power, or scramble for pelf,
Let this be your motto: "Rely on yourself."

--John G. Saxe.

Labor is necessary to excellence. This is an eternal truth, although
vanity cannot be taught to believe or indolence to heed it.

--John Randolph.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his
glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

--Galatians 6. 4.

Almighty God, I regret the hours of indiscretion and waste; through
thy forgiveness may I have thy help over past wrongs. May I have a
deeper conception of a profitable life, that I may hereafter live by
it. Amen.

JUNE THIRD

Sydney Smith born 1771.

Dr. John Gregory born 1724.

Richard Cobden born 1804.

Jefferson Davis born 1808.

Norman Macleod born 1812.

Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these
things. Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of
hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the law of
the universe, the soul worships truth and love, honor and courtesy
flow into all deeds.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Kind actions, and good wishes, and pure thoughts
No mystery is here: Here is no boon
For high--yet not for low: The smoke ascends
To heaven as lightly from the cottage hearth
As from the haughtiest palace.

--William Wordsworth.

Given to hospitality.

--Romans 12. 13.

Gracious Father, I beseech thee to give me wisdom for