of good cheer. Do not think of to-day's failures, but of success
that may come to-morrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task,
but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will have a joy in
overcoming obstacles--a delight in climbing rugged paths which you
would perhaps never know if you did not sometimes slip backward, if
the road were always smooth and pleasant. Remember, no effort that
we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

--Helen Keller.

We rise by things that are beneath our feet,
By what we have mastered by good and gain,
By the pride deposed and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet.

--J.G. Holland.

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with, me in my
throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his
throne.

--Revelation 3. 21.

My Father, I pray that I may not be given to contradicting and
doubting, nor take for granted that which needs to be considered.
Grant that I may have the faith and strength of heart to fulfill the
longings of my soul. Amen.

DECEMBER ELEVENTH

Sir Roger L'Estrange died 1704.

Dr. William Cullen born 1712.

Colley Cibber died 1757.

Lord, subdue our selfish will;
Each to each our tempers suit,
By thy modulating skill,
Heart to heart, as lute to lute.

--Charles Wesley.

One of the last, slowly murmured sayings of Whittier, was this:
"Give--my--love--to--the--world." And this is the world's supreme
need to-day; more than our eloquence, or our knowledge, or our
wealth, or all else besides, it needs our love. True, even love may
sometimes err; but the cure for love's mistakes is just more love;
we often blunder because we do not love enough. God help us all
that, like Whittier, we may live and die, giving our love to the
world.

--George Jackson.

Love never faileth.

--1 Corinthians 13. 8.

Lord God, help me to see the beauty of the world, and through my duty
may I find the love in the world. May I not spend my life in
discontent, but may I remember that thou hast said, "The meek shall
inherit the earth." Fill my heart with compassion, that I may love my
fellow man as I love myself. Amen.

DECEMBER TWELFTH

Chief Justice John Jay born 1745.

Gustav Flaubert born 1821.

Robert Browning died 1889.

A people is but the attempt of many