—­Phcebe Gary.

    Another day may bring another mind,
      A mind to learn when there is none to teach;
    To follow when no leader we can find;
      To enjoy when good is now beyond our reach.

    A better mind, but not a better time,
      A mind to will, but not a time to do
    What had been done, if we in life’s bright prime,
      When God was ready, had been ready too.

    —­Thomas T. Lynch.

    Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that
    needeth not to be ashamed.

    —­2 Timothy 2. 15.

My Father, help me to have lofty thoughts, and may I not be content until they are carried into purpose.  Help me to conquer that which will keep me from an act of happiness, and grant that by thinking of that which is pure, and doing that which is good, I may be made helpful and true.  Amen.

SEPTEMBER FIFTH

Catherine Parr died 1548.

Cardinal Richelieu born 1585.

Robert Fergusson born 1750.

Giacomo Meyerbeer born 1791.

Richard C. Trench born 1807.

    Be patient!  O, be patient!  Put your ear against the earth;
    Listen there how noiselessly the germ o’ the seed has birth—­
    How noiselessly and gently it upheaves its little way,
    Till it parts the scarcely broken ground, and the blade stands up in day.

    Be patient!  O, be patient!—­though yet our hopes are green,
    The harvest fields of freedom shall be crowned with sunny sheen. 
    Be ripening! be ripening—­mature your silent way,
    Till the whole broad land is tongued with fire on freedom’s harvest day.

    —­Richard C. Trench.

    And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
    entire, lacking in nothing.

    —­James 1. 4.

Gracious Father, help me to see the truth as thou hast made it, and may I not be indifferent to the beauty and patience of the earth’s revelations.  May I not mistake indolence for patient ambition, which I would have for anxious hours, and which I need for my heart’s desires.  Amen.

SEPTEMBER SIXTH

Moses Mendelssohn born 1729.

Marquis de Lafayette born 1757.

Jane Addams born 1860.

    God will not seek thy race,
      Nor will he ask thy birth;
    Alone he will demand of thee,
      What hast thou done on earth?

    —­Persian.

    One dreams of the time when the interest and capacity of each person
    shall be studied with reference to the industry about to be
    undertaken.

    —­Jane Addams.

    Honor is purchased by deeds we do, honor is not won, until some
    honorable deed is done.

    —­Sir Christopher Marlowe.