ve failed, even though
it may not seem to be a success. Amen.

MAY ELEVENTH

Baron Muenchhausen born 1720.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, died 1778.

Jean Leon Gerome born 1824.

And methought that beauty and terror are only one, not two;
And the world has room for love, and death, and thunder and dew;
And all the sinews of hell slumber in the summer air;
And the face of God is a rock, but the face of the rock is fair.
Beneficent streams of tears flow at the finger of pain;
And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain.

--Robert Louis Stevenson.

It is more shameful to be distrustful of our friends than to be
deceived by them.

--La Rochefoucauld.

Thou shalt rejoice in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given
unto thee.

--Deuteronomy 26. 11.

Lord God, may I comprehend the sacredness of friendship. I thank thee
for my friends, and for all the beautiful influences which they bring
to my life. May I never hold friendship without the sincerity to
return it. Correct my faults, and cause me to learn the secret of
cheerful endurance, that I may be steadfast. Amen.

MAY TWELFTH

Robert Fielding died 1712.

James Sheridan Knowles born 1784.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti born 1828.

Jules Massenet born 1842.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea-shell
Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's, but by my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen.

--Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Let me not pass my work at morn
And then at eve,
Find for what purpose I was born--
Just as I leave.

--M.B.S.

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.

Lord God, I do earnestly pray that thou wilt give me strength to break
away, if I may be trying to free myself from habits that mar my
character. May I not lose courage and fall back in the old ways, but
by faith be led where I should go. Amen.

MAY THIRTEENTH

Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linne) born 1707.

Alphonse Daudet born 1840.

Sir Arthur Sullivan born 1842.

I heard a voice in the darkness singing