injury simply
bury the hatchet while they leave the handle out, ready for
immediate use.

--Dwight L. Moody.

But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I
may accomplish my course.

--Acts 20. 24.

Almighty God, if I am uncertain, and tremble at the crossroads in
doubt of the right way, may I wait and be led by thee, and follow on,
even if the way be dark and rough. May I be faithful and have thy
presence as thou promised at the end. Amen.

FEBRUARY SIXTH

Queen Anne of England born 1665.

Aaron Burr born 1756.

Sir Henry Irving born 1838.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. I encourage
myself in the Lord my God and go forward.

--David Livingstone.

To expect defeat is nine tenths of defeat itself.

--Marion Crawford.

I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and
his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Art is a jealous mistress, she requires the whole man.

--Michael Angelo.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

--1 Corinthians 16. 13.

Almighty God, help me to have true conceptions, that my life may not
be secured to needless purposes. May my soul be influenced by high
ideals, and my work be the production of truth and not of selfishness.
Protect me from evil that I may be kept pure and strong for my work.
Amen.

FEBRUARY SEVENTH

Millard Fillmore, New York, thirteenth President United States born 1800.

Sir Thomas More born 1478.

Charles Dickens born 1812.

Anne Radcliffe died 1823.

Sidney Cooper died 1902.

Let no man turn aside ever so slightly, from the broad path of
honor, on the plausible pretense that he is justified by the
goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

--Charles Dickens.

If evils come not, then our fears are vain;
And if they do, fear but augments the pain.

--Sir Thomas More.

A human heart knows aught of littleness,
Suspects no man, compares with no one's ways,
Hath in one hour most glorious length of days,
A recompense, a joy, a loveliness;

Like eaglet keen, shoots into azure far,
And always dwelling nigh is the remotest star.

--William Ellery Channing.

Teach me thy way, O Jehovah;
I will walk in thy truth:
Unite my heart to