fear thy name.

--Psalm 86. 11.

Gracious Father, I pray that thou wilt control my impulses, and
protect me from false interpretations. May I have wisdom, and search
for the high and holy ways. Help me to be patient for thy purposes,
and may my relations to life be triumphant in thy standards. Amen.

FEBRUARY EIGHTH

Samuel Butler born 1612.

John Ruskin born 1819.

General Sherman born 1820.

Jules Verne born 1828.

Richard Watson Gilder born 1844.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you
must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and
not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work his
life is a happy one.

--John Ruskin.

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.

--Samuel Butler.

Through love to light! O wonderful the way,
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
From darkness and from sorrow of the night
To morning that comes singing o'er the sea.
Through love to light! through light O God to Thee!
Who art the love, the eternal light of light!

--Richard Watson Gilder.

We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.

--John 9. 4.

My Father, I pray that I may not weight my life with worthless
efforts. May I be guided to the right work, and through the love of it
find strength for my soul. Amen.

FEBRUARY NINTH

C.F. Volney born 1757.

William Henry Harrison, Virginia, ninth President United States, born 1773.

Anthony Hope (Hawkins) born 1863.

George Ade born 1866.

A man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. But it is a safer
conclusion to say, "This agreeth not well with me, therefore I will
not continue it"; than to say, "I find no offense of this, therefore
I may use it." For strength of nature in youth passeth over many
excesses, which are owing a man till his age.

--Francis Bacon.

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!

--Jane Taylor.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been
approved, he shall receive the crown of life.

--James 1. 12.

Almighty God,