s of need,
Judge well thy own, and then thy neighbor's deed.

--Geoffrey Chaucer.

To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.

--Thomas B. Macaulay.

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

--Matthew 20. 28.

Heavenly Father, help me to remember that I am to cover life's
journey, even though I may go the way carelessly and aimlessly. May I
make an estimate of what I am losing, by waiting so long at the
resting places, "For the road winds up hill all the way to the end,
and the journey takes the whole day long, from morn to night." Amen.

OCTOBER TWENTY-SIXTH

Dr. Philip Doddridge died 1751.

Count Von Moltke born 1800.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton died 1902.

One of the notable eddies of the present-day world currents is what
has been loosely called the "Woman Movement." The sensitive and
vicarious spirit of womanhood has been enlisted for service in
behalf of those who have been denied a fair chance, or who are the
victims of oppression, greed, and ignorance.

--William T. Ellis.

And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart
enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens
to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world
beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle
crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood.

--John Ruskin.

O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt.

--Matthew 15. 28.

Lord and Master of all, I pray that thou wilt make me see through my
prejudices and beyond my desires to the very "top of my condition."
May I not wait for places or circumstances that are dimly in the
distance or that are near at hand, but accomplish the work I should do
to-day. Amen.

OCTOBER TWENTY-SEVENTH

James Cook born 1728.

Nicolo Paganini born 1782.

Theodore Roosevelt, New York, twenty-fifth President
United States, born 1858.

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is
always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which
will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the
man who feels it.

--Theodore Roosevelt