at I may so live that my life will
proclaim itself without need of boasting or deception. Forbid that I
should spend my life in perfecting trifles, and have no leisure to
enjoy thy great gifts. Amen.

JANUARY EIGHTEENTH

Charles de Montesquieu born 1689.

John Gillies born 1747.

Daniel Webster born 1782.

We would leave for the consideration of those who shall occupy our
places some proof that we hold the blessings transmitted from our
fathers in just estimation; some proof of our attachment to the
cause of good government and of civil and religious liberty; some
proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing which
may enlarge the understanding and improve the hearts of men.

--Daniel Webster.

Brother and friend, the world is wide,
But I care not whether there be
The soothing song of a summer tide
Or the thrash of a wintry sea,
If but through shimmer and storm you bide,
Brother and friend, with me.

--Percy C. Ainsworth.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the King.

--1 Peter 2. 17.

Almighty God, I thank thee for all the tender influences of life; for
all the gentleness and strength that may be given and received through
friendship. Help me to be careful of what I do, for my sake, and for
the sake of those who may follow me. Amen.

JANUARY NINETEENTH

Hans Sachs died 1576.

William Congreve died 1729.

James Watt born 1736.

Robert E. Lee born 1807.

Edgar Allan Poe born 1809.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God, can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

--Edgar Allan Poe.

Do not train up your children in hostility to the government of the
United States. Remember that we are one country now. Dismiss from
your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

--Robert E. Lee.

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea,
wait thou for Jehovah.

--Psalm 27. 14.

Lord God, I pray that if I have struggled for the wrong, and have
worked with weak hands, thou wilt forgive me for my lost strength.
Give me more light to shine upon my work, upon th