as I search for the realities,
and may I not delay, but start to-day. Amen.

OCTOBER NINETEENTH

Dean (Jonathan) Swift died 1745.

Leigh Hunt born 1784.

Henry Kirke White died 1806.

Don't look too hard except for something agreeable; we can find all
the disagreeable things we want, between our own hats and boots.

--Leigh Hunt.

Instead of a gem or a flower, cast the gift of a lovely thought into
the heart of a friend.

--George Macdonald.

For the want of common discretion the very end of good breeding is
wholly perverted; and civility, intended to make us easy, is
employed in laying chains and fetters upon us, in debarring our
wishes, and in crossing our most reasonable desires and
inclinations.

--Jonathan Swift.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all
men.

--Romans 12. 18.

My Lord, help me to adjust my life to what I ought to be, rather than
be content in what I am. May I not spend my time in dreaming of
obstacles, or searching for things that hurt, but may I be gentle and
kind, and as I see the truth speak for it and follow it. Amen.

OCTOBER TWENTIETH

Sir Christopher Wren born 1632.

Thomas Hughes born 1823.

Charles Dudley Warner died 1900.

There has always seemed to me something impious in the neglect of
health. I could not do half the good I do if it were not for the
strength and activity some consider coarse and degrading.

--Charles Kingsley.

To keep well drink often, but water;
Eat not that which makes life shorter;
But first, with all your might and skill,
Just chain your habits to your will.

--M.B.S.

I will be lord over myself. No one who cannot master himself is
worthy to rule, and only he can rule.

--Goethe.

Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is
in you, which ye have from God?

--1 Corinthians 6. 19.

Lord God, may I not wait until I am afflicted and cannot use them to
thank thee for my blessings. Guard me against infirmities that are
brought on through indulgences, and help me to control my life. May I
never forget that regret will not retrieve the life that is spent,
even if it brings forgiveness and hope for the days to come. Amen.

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST

Samuel Taylor Coleridge born 1772.

Alphonse Lamartine born 1790.

Samuel F. Smith born 1808.

Will Ca