into life's maelstrom and left to
make his way ashore. No youth can learn to sail his life-craft in a
lake sequestered and sheltered from all the storms, where other
vessels never come. Skill comes through sailing one's craft amidst
rocks and bars and opposing fleets, amidst storms and whirls and
counter currents.

--Newell Dwight Hillis.

O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?

--Edmund C. Vance.

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

--Hebrews 6. 15.

Tender Father, may I not encourage the disposition to enlarge and make
much of the troubles and disappointments of life, and make light of
the joys and privileges. I pray that I may keep a large place for
happiness. Amen.

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-THIRD

Karl Theodore Koerner born 1791.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen born 1848.

Wilkie Collins died 1889.

M.F.H. De Haas died 1895.

When over the fair fame of friend or foe
The shadow of disgrace shall fall; instead
Of words to blame, or reproof of thus and so,
Let something good be said.

Forget not that no fellow-being yet
May fall so low but love may lift his head;
Even the cheek of shame with tears is wet
If something good be said.

--Author unknown.

The right Christian mind will ... find its own image wherever it
exists; it will seek for what it loves, and draw out of all dens and
caves, and it will believe in its being, often when it cannot see
it; and so it will lie lovingly over the faults and rough places of
the human heart, as the snow from heaven does over the hard, and
black, and broken mountain rocks.

--John Ruskin.

To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his
friend.

--Job 6. 14.

Lord God, grant that after years of climbing I may not find the mist
in my soul has dulled the vision of thy glory. Keep me from the habit
of looking for faults, and missing the virtues in others. Forbid that
I should be so occupied in taking measure of other lives that I
neglect to measure my own. Amen.

SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH

John Marshall born 1755.

Zachary Taylor, Virginia, twelfth President United
States, born 1784.

S.R. Crockett born 1860.

Get the truth once uttered, and 'tis