rah F. Adams.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall
not reproach me so long as I live.

--Job 27. 6.

My Father, may I consider the place in which I stand: and may I not be
deceived in thinking I am near thee while I am living far away. Teach
me the way to draw nearer to thee each day, until my spirit may
continually dwell with thee. Amen.

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH

George Cruikshank born 1792.

Samuel Francis Dupont born 1803.

Aime Millet born 1819.

Henri Frederic Arniel born 1821.

The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his
front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not
properly a personality at all; ... he is one of a crowd.

--Amiel.

Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour,
And in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,
Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power--
Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful.

--Paul Hamilton Hayne.

The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours and in all
places; and men of genius in their walks, at table, and amidst
assemblies, turning the eye of the mind inward, can form an
artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst
distractions, and wise amidst folly.

--Disraeli.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

--Psalm 4. 4.

Heavenly Father, save me from being so poor in spirit, that I will
have to be sustained by the bright spirits of others. May I be
continually refreshed by the spirit of life that may be found at all
times. Amen.

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH

Francis Turner Palgrave born 1824.

Frances E. Willard born 1839.

General John D. French born 1852.

Mary Anderson born 1859.

Unless there is a predominating and overmastering purpose to which
all the accessories and incidents of life contribute, the character
will be weak, irresolute, uncertain.

--Frances E. Willard.

Life is not an idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And battered with the shocks of doom
To shape and use.

--Alfred Tennyson.

He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and
tossed.... A double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

--James 1. 6, 8.

O God, help me to be positive. May I not want to