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What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for
each other?

--George Eliot.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
oneself unspotted from the world.

--James 1. 27.

My Father, help me to understand that kind hearts and willing hands
are made possible by the depth and greatness of thy love. May I
possess the spirit of forgiveness and consideration, that I may not
hold prejudice and revenge, but help with sympathy and tenderness.
Amen.

JUNE NINTH

George Stephenson born 1781.

John Howard Payne born 1791.

Richard D. Blackmore born 1825.

Charles Dickens died 1870.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many; not
upon your past misfortunes, of which all have some.

--Charles Dickens.

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home!

--John Howard Payne.

For thou shalt forget thy misery;
Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away.

--Job 11. 16.

Lord God, my soul fills with gratitude for the blessings which I have
received and enjoyed. Help me to conform to thy will concerning my
duties. May I not try to resist thy providence. I pray that thou wilt
bless my daily life, and make my home a place to dispense kindness and
cheerfulness. Amen.

JUNE TENTH

Sir Edwin Arnold born 1832.

Henry M. Stanley born 1840.

Edward Everett Hale died 1809.

Robert Schumann born 1810.

What have you done with your soul, my friend?
Where is the ray you were wont to send,
Glancing bright through the outer night,
Touching with hope what was dark before,
Glimmering on to the further shore?

--Arthur C. Benson.

God suffers the light to know eclipse,
Dashes the cup from the eager lips;
You perchance would have drunk too deep.

--Arthur C. Benson.

Lift where you stand.

--Edward Everett Hale.

A friend is the first person who comes in when the whole world has
gone out.

--Unknown.

Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to
comfort them that are i