nry W. Longfellow.

Never be sad or desponding
If thou hast faith to believe;
Grace for the duties before thee
Ask of thy God and receive.

--Fanny Crosby.

I spread forth my hands unto thee:
My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land.

--Psalm 143. 6.

Almighty God, make me conscious of my weaknesses, and make me ashamed
of my indulgences. Give me a victory over self; and may I consider
more what I put in my life. May I be eager for that which will inspire
me for greater aspirations. Amen.

MARCH TWENTY-FIFTH

Archbishop John Williams born 1582.

Joachim Murat born 1771.

Anna Seward died 1809.

How awful is the thought of the wonders underground,
Of the mystic changes wrought in the silent, dark profound!
How each thing upward tends by necessity decreed,
And the world's support depends on the shooting of a seed!

The summer's in her ark, and this sunny-pinioned day
Is commissioned to remark whether Winter holds her sway:
Go back, thou dove of peace, with myrtle on thy wing,
Say that floods and tempests cease, and the world is ripe for Spring.

--Horace Smith.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed
upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and
care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

--Charles Dickens.

Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.

--John 6. 12.

Loving Father, cause me to learn from nature that to have perfection I
must be attentive at the beginning of growth. Help me to select with
care the soil wherein I plant; and to weed and cultivate my life that
it may grow to beauty and usefulness. Amen.

MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH

Konrad von Gesner born 1516.

W. E. H. Lecky born 1838.

Gustave Guillaumet born 1840.

Walt Whitman died 1892.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him, but a
day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor.
Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of
the sun.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He that is unacquainted with the nature of the world must be at a
loss to know where he is. And he that cannot tell the ends he was
made for is ignorant both of himself and the world too.

--Marcus Aurelius.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that
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