unshine.

--Thomas Carlyle.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

--Washington Irving.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

--Charles Lamb.

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart
the spirit is broken.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.

--Proverbs 15. 13, 17.

Gracious Father, if I am sorrowing over disappointment and am
forgetful, grant that I may see the things thou hast made, for which I
should be thankful. Help me to so live that I may have a right to
claim a cheerful heart. Amen.

JANUARY TENTH

Dr. George Birkbeck born 1776.

Michel or Marshal Ney born 1769.

Karl von Linne, Linnaeus, died 1778.

Ethan Allen born 1737.

Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession? All I
have teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The practical weakness of the vast mass of modern pity for the poor
and the oppressed is precisely that it is merely pity; the pity is
pitiful but not respectful. Men feel that the cruelty to the poor is
a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is injustice
to equals; nay, it is treachery to comrades.

--G.K. Chesterton.

Be ye all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brethren,
tender-hearted, humble-minded: not rendering evil for evil, or
reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing.

--1 Peter 3. 8, 9.

God of justice, may I pause to remember that while I may do a mean act
and keep it hidden from others, I cannot keep it hidden from myself,
nor from thee. Help me to have a nobler sense of the quality of life,
and less anxiety for the quantity, that I may avoid harshness and
selfishness, and be given to tenderness and justice. Amen.

JANUARY ELEVENTH

Alexander Hamilton born 1757.

Bayard Taylor born 1825.

William James born 1842.

Alice Caldwell Regan Rice born 1870.

The paternal relation to man was the basis of that religion which
appealed directly to the heart; so the fraternity of each man with
his fellow was its practical application.

--Bayard Taylor.

It is indeed a remarkable fact that sufferings and hardships do not,
as a rule, abate the love of life; they seem on the contrary,
usually to give it a keener zest; and the sovereign source