. May I not be deceived in my
convictions, and work for that of which I may afterward be ashamed.
Lead me into a clear conception of right and wrong. Help me to see as
thou dost see, that I may walk with confidence in thy steps. Amen.

JUNE TWENTY-NINTH

Paul Rubens born 1577.

Baron John De Kalb born 1721.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning died 1861.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
And they cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows;
The young birds are chirping in the nests;
The young fawns are playing with the shadows;
The young flowers are blowing toward the west:
But the young, young children, O my brothers!
They are weeping bitterly.
They are weeping in the playtime of the others,
In the country of the free.

--Elizabeth B. Browning.

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast
borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be
devoured.

--Ezekiel 16. 20.

Father of all, I pray that I may always love children. May I never
forget that I wanted things and needed things when I was a child, and
that the help and neglect which I received then told in my life. Make
me interested in the purposes that will help the progress of the child
to-day, and may I realize that the child does not need my casual
charity as much as it needs my permanent justice. Amen.

JUNE THIRTIETH

Alexander Brome died 1666.

Archibald Campbell beheaded 1685.

Sir Thomas Pope Blount died 1697.

Be useful where thou livest, that they may
Both want and wish thy pleasing presence still;
Kindness, good parts, great places are the way
To compass this. Find out men's wants and will,
And meet them there. All worldly joys go less
To the one joy of doing kindnesses.

--George Herbert.

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own;
Though solitary, who is not alone,
But doth converse with that eternal love

--William Drummond.

Seek, and ye shall find.

--Matthew 7. 7.

My Father, help me to draw from the wisdom of life, that my soul may
grow in knowledge and power. May I have the quiet confidence that
comes in trusting thee. May I help others to think on the uplifti