y promises, and upon
my duties; and with thy wisdom may I search for the truth that is
behind every wrong, and for the purpose that is beyond all
journeyings. Amen.

JANUARY TWENTIETH

Eve of Saint Agnes.

David Garrick died 1779.

John Howard died 1790.

John Ruskin died 1900.

Nathaniel P. Willis born 1806.

How like a mounting devil in the heart
Rules the unreigned ambition! Let it once
But play the monarch, and its haughty brow
Glows with a beauty that bewilders thought
And unthrones peace forever. Putting on
The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns
The heart to ashes.

--Nathaniel P. Willis.

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and
imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good
thing, as love or in faith; but it means the power which governs the
most intense energy, and prevents its acting in any way but as it
ought.

--John Ruskin.

And thy gentleness hath made me great.

--Psalm 18. 35.

Gracious Father, I pray that I may be willing to profit by the
experience of great teachers, and appreciate the value of strong
principles. May I too live for the higher ideals of life, and through
a sympathetic response add power and virtue to other lives, while
gaining strength for my own. Amen.

JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST

Miles Coverdale died 1568.

John Fitch born 1743.

John C. Fremont born 1813.

Thomas Erskine born 1750.

Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson born 1824.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others I
would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless
while he has a friend.

--Robert L. Stevenson.

So to the calmly gathered thought
The innermost of life is taught,
The mystery dimly understood,
That love of God is love of good:
That to be saved is only this--
Salvation from our selfishness.

--John Greenleaf Whittier.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the
fulfillment of the law. And this, knowing the season, that already
it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation
nearer to us than when we first believed.

--Romans 13. 10, 11.

Tender Father, may I not attempt to serve life for my own
gratification. May I not interpret love through vanity, but from
reality. Make me worth while, that I may be relied upon for my
pledges, and ne