To rise to the completer life of one.
And those who live for models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.

--Robert Browning.

Give me the power to labor for mankind;
Make me the mouth of such as cannot speak;
Eyes let me be to groping men and blind;
A conscience to the base; and to the weak
Let me be hands and feet, and to the foolish, mind;
And lead still further on such as thy kingdom seek.

--Theodore Parker.

I was eyes to the blind,
And feet was I to the lame.

--Job 29. 15.

Almighty God, wilt thou guide me in the direction where I may choose a
useful life; open wide my heart as well as my eyes, that I may early
see my work and be diligent in its prosecution. Reveal to me, when I
may have failed, that I may do better to-morrow. Amen.

DECEMBER THIRTEENTH

William Drummond born 1585.

Dr. Samuel Johnson died 1784.

Joseph Noel Paton born 1821.

Phillips Brooks born 1835.

Hamilton Mabie born 1846.

When the clouds of sorrow gather over us, we see nothing beyond
them, nor can imagine how they can be dispelled; yet a new day
succeeded to the night, and sorrow is never long without a dawn of
ease.

--Dr. Samuel Johnson.

The fountains of joy and sorrow are for the most part locked up in
ourselves.... There come to great, solitary, and sorely smitten
souls moments of clear insight, of assurance of victory, of
unspeakable fellowship with truth and life and God, which outweigh
years of sorrow and bitterness.

--Hamilton Mabie.

And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your
heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you.

--John 16. 22.

My Father, may I remember that the days of my life that I give over to
grief can never be reclaimed. Help me that I may not want to keep
sorrow in my life, but with faith may I believe that "weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Amen.

DECEMBER FOURTEENTH

Daniel Neal born 1678.

Rev. Charles Wolfe born 1791.

George Washington died 1799.

Frances Ridley Havergal born 1836.

Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.

--Frances R. Havergal.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I