lumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown;
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.

--Emily Dickinson.

OCTOBER FIRST

Saint John Viscount Bolingbroke born 1678.

Pierre Corneille died 1684.

Rufus Choate born 1799.

He speaks not well who doth his time deplore,
Naming it new and a little obscure,
Ignoble and unfit for lofty deeds.
All times were modern in the time of them,
And this no more than others. Do thy part
Here in the living day, as did the great
Who made old days immortal.

--Richard Watson Gilder.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may have forgotten the cause.

--Henry Ward Beecher.

For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And master the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.

--William Shakespeare.

And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his
house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem;)
and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and
gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

--Daniel 6. 10.

Heavenly Father, help me to get away from doubt that leads to despair.
Give me a vision of hope that is stayed on faith. May I be conscious
and appreciative of my privileges while they come to me and make them
immortal. Amen.

OCTOBER SECOND

Aristotle died B.C. 322.

Major John Andre hanged 1780.

William Ellery Channing died 1842.

I am not earth-born, though I here delay;
Hope's child, I summon infiniter powers,
And laugh to see the mild sunny day
Smile on the shrunk and thin autumnal hours;
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place for me--
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

--William E. Channing.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shall flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

--Thomas Addison.

For with thee is the fountain of life:
In thy light shall we see light.

--Psalm 36. 9.

My Father, I would pray that my sense of gloom may not be more than
thy grace. May the glorious light of thy love break through my
disheartened soul, and reveal the sincerity