Dr. John Fothergill born 1712.

C.P.  Cranch born 1813.

Anna Letitia Barbauld died 1825.

    O boundless self-contentment voiced
      In flying air-born bubbles! 
    O joy that mocks our sad unrest,
      And frowns our earth-born troubles!

    The life that floods the happy fields
      With song and light and color,
    Will shape our lives to richer states
      And heap our measures fuller.

    —­C.P.  Cranch.

One may secure and preserve that repose in the turbulence of a great city—­as Shakespeare surely found and preserved it in the London of the sixteenth century.  For repose does not depend on external conditions; it depends on sound adjustment to tasks, opportunities, pleasures, and the general order of life.

    —­Hamilton Mabie.

    That we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in godliness and gravity.

    —­1 Timothy 2.2.

Gracious Father, help me to understand that peace cannot abide in misery, nor can it stay with every mood.  May I be able to overcome the depression that may keep me in sadness and isolation, and have delight in the gladness of friends, and live in the peace of strong resolutions.  Amen.

MARCH NINTH

Americus Vespucius born 1451.

Lewis Gonzaga born 1568.

Comte de Mirabeau born 1749.

William Cobbett born 1762.

Edwin Forrest born 1806.

    Yet nerve thy spirit to the Proof, and blanch not at thy chosen lot;
    The timid good may stand aloof, the sage may frown—­yet faint thou not;
    Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, the foul and hissing bolt of scorn;
    For with thy Side shall dwell, at last, the victory of endurance born.

    —­William C. Bryant.

    You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and
    forge yourself into one.

    —­James Anthony Froude.

    Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I
    shall deal with thee?

    —­Ezekiel 22.14.

Loving Father, search me, and if there be any evil ways in me, correct them, and lead me into the ways everlasting.  I pray that I may not be deformed from selfishness, but with a lowly and expectant heart run with patience and triumph the race that is set before me.  Amen.

MARCH TENTH

Bishop Duppa born 1698.

Professor Playfair born 1748.

Charles Loyson (Pere Hyacinthe) born 1827.

    So he died by his faith.  That is fine—­
      More than the most of us do. 
    But stay.  Can you add to that line
      That he lived for it too?

    It is easy to die.  Men have died
      For a wish or a whim—­
    From bravado or passion or pride. 
      Was it hard for him?