friendship and our love to write;
That these may never from the soul depart,
We trust them to the memory of the heart.
There is no dimming--no effacement here;
Each pulsation keeps the record clear;
Warm golden letters all the tablet fill,
Nor lose their luster till the heart stands still.

--Daniel Webster.

I often wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are. How
much the world needs it! How easily it is done! How instantaneously
it acts! How infallibly it is remembered!

--Henry Drummond.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many
days.

--Ecclesiastes 11. 1.

My Father, thou hast taught me through the gifts of life, that there
is no labor or price too dear to pay for love. I pray to love thee
more that I may have more love to bestow on others. Amen.

MARCH FOURTEENTH

Thomas H. Benton born 1782.

Johann Strauss born 1804.

Victor Emmanuel born 1820.

Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course;
Fire ascending seeks the sun;
Both speed them to their source;
So a soul that's born of God,
Pants to view his glorious face,
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.

--Robert Seagrave.

As the bird trims her to the gale
I trim myself to the storm of time;
I man the rudder, reef the sail,
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime;
Lowly faithful, banish fear,
The port well worth the cruise is near
And every wave is charmed.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

--Psalm 42. 1.

My Father, I pray that if I meet with difficulty, I may not go
backward, nor stand still, and fear to go forward. Unfold to me the
depth and breadth of the ideal and beautiful, that I may not be
content to succeed in the shallowness of life: but may I aspire to the
height of the soul, even if I fail to acquire great things. Amen.

MARCH FIFTEENTH

Julius Caesar killed B.C. 44.

Peasants War began 1512.

Andrew Jackson, North Carolina, seventh President
United States, born 1767.

John Davenport died 1670.

I will take the responsibility!

--Andrew Jackson.

What ought to be possible for everyone is to arrive at a sort of
harmony of life, to have definite things that they want to do....
The people whom it is har