ou shalt never die!"

--Richard Henry Dana.

I am drawing near to the close of my career; I am fast shuffling off
the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the
day; and it is a comfort to me to think I have tried to unsettle no
man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and that I have written
nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted.

--Sir Walter Scott.

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write
unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

--1 Thessalonians 4. 9.

Almighty God, may I have that faith in eternal life which will make me
careful of what I choose for my own and more careful of what I put in
the lives of others. Amen.

AUGUST SIXTEENTH

Ralph Thoresby born 1658.

Dr. Thomas Fuller died 1661.

Dr. Matthew Tindal died 1733.

The secret of goodness and greatness is in choosing whom you will
approach and live with, in memory or imagination, through the
crowding obvious people who seem to live with you.

--Robert Browning.

Fair Nature's book together read,
The old wood-paths that knew our tread,
The maple shadows overhead--

Where'er I look, where'er I stray,
Thy thought goes with me on my way,
And hence the prayer I breathe to-day.

--John Greenleaf Whittier.

Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

--Amos 3. 3.

Lord God, I thank thee for the delight of congenial companions and the
memory of friendship. May I not be quick to lose my friends through
misunderstanding and selfishness. May I be considerate and constant
and be able to climb to the highest steeps of friendship. Amen.

AUGUST SEVENTEENTH

Dr. William Carey born 1761.

David Crockett born 1786.

Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) died 1896.

The destiny of nations lies far more in the hands of women--the
mothers--than in the hands of those who possess power. We must
cultivate women, who are educators of the human race, else a new
generation cannot accomplish its task.

--Froebel.

In an old continental town they will show you a prison in a tower,
and on all the stones of that prison within reach one word is
carved--it is, "Resist!" Years ago a godly woman was for forty years
immured in that dungeon, and she spent her time in cutting with a
piece of iron on every stone that one word, for