than time enough to found a world.

--James Russell Lowell.

An illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a
century, is valuable. But an old French sentence says, "God works in
moments." We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life or grand moments
that signify. Let the measure of Time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal
relation, a smile, a glance--what ample borrowers of eternity they
are!

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day.

--2 Peter 3. 8.

My Father, I pray that when the "sun sets to-day my hope may not set
with it." Be with me earlier than the dawn, that I may plan with thee
a new day. I pray that thou wilt release me from anything that keeps
me from reaching the highest. Amen.

OCTOBER THIRTEENTH

Theodore Beza died 1605.

Murat, King of Naples, shot 1815.

Elizabeth Fry died 1845.

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he
armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up
in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

--William Shakespeare.

A man's accusations of himself are always believed, his praises
never.

--Montaigne.

Justice needs that two be heard.

--From Goethe's Autobiography.

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live.

--Deuteronomy 16. 20.

Lord of justice, if I may be influenced this morning by doubt and am
inclined to be resentful, wilt thou cause me to have a generous spirit
and keep my faith. May I never descend to anything base or deceitful,
but may I remember that if I lay down my life, I may have the power to
take it up again. Amen.

OCTOBER FOURTEENTH

William Penn born 1644.

James Fenimore Cooper died 1851.

Duke of Wellington died 1852.

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. If thou
wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an
indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

--William Penn.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

--Humboldt.

I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty men in
the balance.

--Duke of Wellington.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that