er, I pray that I may be spared the deprivations that may come
from years spent in selfishness. Help me to realize before it is too
late how little self can hold and how much remorse may accumulate.
Help me to aspire to ideals that compel me to live an immortal life.
Amen.

DECEMBER NINETEENTH

Gustavus Adolphus born 1594.

Horatio Bonar born 1808.

F. Delsarte born 1811.

Mary A. Livermore born 1820.

J.M.W. Turner died 1851.

If a man is to be a pillar in the temple of his God by and by, he
must be some kind of a prop in God's house to-day. We are here to
support, not to be supported. No one can be a living stone on the
foundations of the Spiritual House which is God's habitation without
being a foundation to the stones above him.

--Maltbie Babcock.

Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs;
Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,
O let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,
A small unkindness is a great offense.

--Hannah More.

He that overcometh I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and
he shall go out thence no more.

--Revelation 3. 12.

My Father, grant that I may not deceive myself and expect big results
from little efforts; nor be willing to receive assistance and refuse
my support. May I not only be anxious to give others all that I can,
and share their burdens, but may I be glad to help make fewer burdens
for others to bear. Amen.

DECEMBER TWENTIETH

Louis the Dauphin died 1765.

John Wilson Croker born 1780.

Cyrus Townsend Brady born 1861.

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

--William Shakespeare.

I will not doubt the love untold
Which not my worth nor want hath bought,
Which wooed me young and wooes me old,
And to this evening hath me brought.

--Henry David Thoreau.

Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

--Jeremiah 81. 3.

Loving Father, teach me the secret of constancy, that none may ever be
disappointed in me. May I not reckon what I give on recompense, but
have the sp