delegate his tasks
or escape his own mistakes.

--Shailer Mathews.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and
having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy
Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.

--Matthew 6. 6.

My Father, I pray that thou wilt take care of my thoughts when I am
alone and tired, and keep them strong and clean. Grant that while I
commune with thee I may yield to my needs and be restored with keener
energy for worthier deeds. May I ask of thy wisdom every day. Amen.

MARCH THIRD

Edmund Waller born 1605.

George Herbert died 1633.

Christine Nilsson born 1843.

Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high,
So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be;
Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky,
Shoots higher than he that means a tree.

--George Herbert.

We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves
to his influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

--William James.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but
the things which are not seen are eternal.

--2 Corinthians 4. 18.

Almighty God, help me to remember that "the power of character is the
highest point of success," and that thou hast put within reach of all
the choice ideals of life. May I have the desire to cultivate strong
purposes, and strive for high endeavors, that I may not aim for the
low. Amen.

MARCH FOURTH

Casimer Pulaski born 1748.

Sir Henry Raeburn born 1756.

E.W. Bull, originator Concord grape, born 1806.

Alexander Graham Bell born 1847.

It is perfectly obvious that men do necessarily absorb, out of the
influences in which they grow up, something which gives a complexion
to their whole after-character.

--Anthony Froude.

All common things, each day's events
That with the hour begin and end,
Our pleasures and our discontents
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

--Henry W. Longfellow.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt. I

--Shakespeare.

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and
slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone
sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.