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things of life. Amen.

JULY

Then came hot July, boiling like to fire,
That all his garments he had cast away;
Upon a lion raging yet with ire
He boldly rode, and made him to obey.

--Edmund Spenser.

A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was,
Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
For ever flushing round a summer sky.

--James Thomson.

JULY FIRST

Comte de Rochambeau born 1725.

Gideon Welles born 1802.

George Frederick Watts died 1904.

There is no unbelief!
Whoever plants a seed beneath a sod,
And waits to see it push away the clod,
He trusts in God.

There is no unbelief!
And day by day, and night, unconsciously,
The heart lives by that faith the lips deny--
God knoweth why.

--Bulwer Lytton.

More and more I see that nothing is so necessary for the religious
condition of the mind as absolute simplicity. We know what we have
got to do, and the only thing is to ask ourselves whether we are
doing it as well as we can.

--George Frederick Watts.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God.

--Romans 5. 1.

My Creator, I praise thee for the knowledge of life, and the hope of
immortality. Help me to express my belief, and to give my utmost for
the divinest, that I may be worthy of life eternal. Amen.

JULY SECOND

Archbishop Cranmer born 1489.

Christopher W. Gluck born 1714.

Richard Henry Stoddard born 1825.

Sir Robert Peel died 1850.

One step more, and the race is ended;
One word more, and the lesson's done;
One toil more, and a long rest follows
At set of sun.

Who would fail, for one step withholden?
Who would fail, for one word unsaid?
Who would fail, for a pause too early?
Sound sleep the dead.

--Christina G. Rossetti.

One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

--Robert Browning.

He that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

--Matthew 10. 22.

My Father, thou hast proven the strength of thy promises by thy tender
love and mercy through the darkest hours. Help me always to cl