Just where you stand in the conflict,
There is your place!
Just where you think you are useless,
Hide not your face!
God placed you there for a purpose,
What e'er it be;
Think you he has chosen you for it:
Work loyally.

--Anonymous.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of
God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing
out!

--Romans 11. 33.

My Father, I thank thee that thou hast endowed me with a will; help me
to use it aright. May I have the knowledge of what thou dost demand of
my soul, that I may do my best with what thou hast given me. Help me
that I may reach out for the highest ideals of life. Amen.

JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH

Emanuel Swedenborg born 1688.

Thomas Paine born 1737.

Adelaide Ristori born 1822.

William McKinley, Ohio, twenty-fourth President
United States, born 1843.

God will keep no nation in supreme place that will not do supreme
duty.

--William McKinley.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God
and the angels know of us.

--Thomas Paine.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

--George Eliot.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
So shall we not go back from thee:
Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

--Psalm 80. 17, 18.

My Father, I pray that I may be just and be given to kindness. May I
be conscious of my virtues, and use them to overcome my faults. May I
hear clearly thy call that I may be sure of the way as I lead others
to duty and happiness. Amen.

JANUARY THIRTIETH

Archbishop Butler born 1774.

Walter Savage Landor born 1775.

Henri Rochefort born 1830.

Why, why repine, my pensive friend,
At pleasures slipped away?
Some the stern fates will never lend,
And all refuse to stay.
I see the rainbow in the sky,
The dew upon the grass;
I see them and I ask not why
They glimmer or they pass.
With folded arms I linger not
To call them back; 'twere vain;
In this, or in some other spot,
I know they'll shine again.

--Walter Savage Landor.

When disappointment comes meet it, but do not carry it along with
you; nor fetter your spirit by changeless haste. "Memory will always
pursue some prec