the fields of gold
His breath is melting; and the warm winds sing
While rocking summer days for him.

--Elizabeth S. Phelps.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise and
wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

--Samuel Johnson.

But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

---2 Timothy 3. 14.

My Lord, I would remember to ask thee this morning for that of which I
seem to have most need. May I have the will to keep my patience and
realize the untold power of my words and actions. Give me thy peace,
not only to rest in, but that I may have it to give to others. Amen.

AUGUST FOURTEENTH

Dr. Meric Casaubon born 1599.

Dr. Charles Button born 1737.

Walter Besant born 1836.

Ernest Thompson Seton born 1860.

Florence Nightingale died 1910.

I count this thing to be grandly true,
That a noble deed is a step toward God;
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a broader view.

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

--Richard Watson Gilder.

No Apostle of Liberty much to my heart ever found I;
License each for himself, this was at bottom their want.
Liberator of many! first dare to be Servant of many;
What a business is that, would'st thou know it, go try!

--Goethe.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

--1 Thessalonians 5. 21.

Gracious Father, if I may be beginning this day with an unclean
purpose in my heart, help me to clear it away; if I may be trying to
avoid some urgent duty, make me ashamed to resist it. Keep away the
desires that harm my life, and that withhold the enjoyment of my
common work. Amen.

AUGUST FIFTEENTH

Jeremy Taylor baptized 1613.

Napoleon Bonaparte born 1769.

Sir Walter Scott born 1771.

Thomas de Quincey born 1785.

And do our loves all perish with our frames?
Do those that took their root and put forth buds,
And their soft leaves unfolded in the warmth
Of mutual hearts, grow up and live in beauty,
Then fade and fall, like fair, unconscious flowers?

O, listen, man!
A voice within us speaks the startling word,
"Man, th