n any affliction, through the comfort
wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

--2 Corinthians 1.4.

Almighty God, help me to correct my mistakes, and to be more careful
of what I take in my life. May I always stretch out a hand of love to
inspire others with confidence to care more for themselves and more
for thee. Amen.

JUNE ELEVENTH

Roger Bacon died 1292.

George Wither born 1588.

John Constable born 1776.

Exceeding gifts from God are not blessings, they are duties. They do
not always increase a man's happiness; they always increase his
responsibilities.

--Charles Kingsley.

Make a rule and pray for help to keep it. Once a day spare room for
a thought that will pursue a strong purpose. Help in some way the
progress of a weary soul who cannot repay you.

--M. B. S.

There is no true potency, remember, but that of help; nor true
ambition, but ambition to save.

--John Ruskin.

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine
obscurity be as the noon day.

--Isaiah 58. 10.

Heavenly Father, when I think of how little I have given away my heart
burns with shame, as I recall what thou hast given to me. May I from
this day be more thoughtful of thy tender compassion by being less
selfish with what I have. Amen.

JUNE TWELFTH

Harriet Martineau born 1802.

Charles Kingsley born 1819.

Dr. Thomas Arnold (Arnold of Rugby) died 1842.

Sir Oliver Lodge born 1851.

Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation, and do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking-forward to things which you cannot see,
and could not understand if you saw them.

--Charles Kingsley.

Genuine religion has its roots deep down in the heart of
humanity.... The actions of the Deity make no appeal to any special
sense. We are deaf and blind, therefore, to the imminent grandeur
around us unless we have insight enough to appreciate the whole and
to recognize the woven fabric of existence flowing steadily from the
loom of an infinite progress toward perfection.

--Sir Oliver Lodge.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down
from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither
shadow that is cast by turning.

--James 1. 17.

Gracious Father, forbid that I should