e resurrection. May I keep the vision clear. Amen.

AUGUST NINTH

Izaak Walton born 1593.

John Dryden born 1631.

Francis Scott Key born 1780.

Joseph Jacques Tissot died 1902.

All habits gather, by unseen degrees,
Brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

--John Dryden.

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;
'Tis the star-spangled banner; O yet may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

--Francis Scott Key.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a
million spears of grass where he made one tree.... Only have enough
of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn
because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

--Henry Ward Beecher.

The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah
Is riches, and honor, and life.

--Proverbs 22. 4.

Lord God, who keepest truth to generations, and who through love and
wisdom hath gathered us into nations, forgive me for what I have done
that is wrong, and for what I have neglected that was right. May I
give greater loyalty to my country and to thee. Amen.

AUGUST TENTH

Founding of Greenwich Observatory 1675.

Sir Charles Napier born 1782.

George Park Fisher born 1827.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation
unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best
he can to keep out of it.

--John Ruskin.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

--William Shakespeare.

The greatest punishment one can have is to discover, not how hard,
but how low he has fallen.

--M.B.S.

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away
from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is
falsely so-called.

--1 Timothy 6. 20.

Almighty God, through thy mercies may I recognize my faults, and
correct any evil that is in me. Make me strong, that I may not yield
to temptation. May I have regard for thy will and be prepared to take
thy messages as they are flashed to the soul. Amen.

AUGUST ELEVENTH

Jean Victor Moreau born 1761.

Octave Feuillet born 1821.

Signer Crispi died 1901.

Heaven overreaches you and me,
And all eart