him and lies down to pleasant dreams.

--William Cullen Bryant.

As the wind extinguishes a taper but kindles the fire, so absence is
the death of an ordinary passion, but lends strength to the greater.

--La Rochefoucauld.

If a man die, shall he live again?

--Job 14. 14.

Heavenly Father, with thy help may I enter into the hope that
overcomes the fear of death. May my days be full of aspiration, and
through faith may my life move toward the eternal and the sublime.
Amen.

DECEMBER SEVENTEENTH

Sir Roger L'Estrange born 1616.

Ludwig van Beethoven born 1770.

Sir Humphry Davy born 1779.

John Greenleaf Whittier born 1807.

The night is mother of the day,
The winter of the spring;
And ever upon old decay
The greenest mosses cling.
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all his works,
Has left his hope with all.

--John Greenleaf Whittier.

The sun set; but not his hope:
Stars rose; his faith was earlier up.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

What I am I have made myself.

--Sir Humphry Davy.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth:
My flesh also shall dwell in safety.

--Psalm 16. 9.

My Father, may I never be content to pass by thy beautiful offerings
and keep on in wretched despair. Save me if I may 'be inclining toward
misery. Give me the spirit of repose, and help me to confide in thee
as I daily seek the strength of thy love. Amen.

DECEMBER EIGHTEENTH

Charles Wesley born 1708.

Lyman Abbott born 1835.

Samuel Rogers died 1855.

Sir Joseph John Thomson born 1845.

And let this feeble body fail,
And let it faint or die;
My soul shall quit this mournful vale,
And soar to worlds on high.

--Charles Wesley.

It were better to live an immortal life and be robbed of immortality
hereafter by some supernal power, than to live the mortal, fleshly
animal life, and live it endlessly. Who would not rather have a
right to immortality than to be immortal without a right to be?

--Lyman Abbott.

So when a great man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.

--Henry W. Longfellow.

But he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal
life.

--Galatians 6. 8.

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