JUNE SECOND

Ethelbert baptized 597.

John Randolph born 1773.

Thomas Hardy born 1840.

    In battle or business, whatever the game,
    In law or in love, it is ever the same: 
    In the struggle for power, or scramble for pelf,
    Let this be your motto:  “Rely on yourself.”

    —­John G. Saxe.

    Labor is necessary to excellence.  This is an eternal truth, although
    vanity cannot be taught to believe or indolence to heed it.

    —­John Randolph.

    But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his
    glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

    —­Galatians 6. 4.

Almighty God, I regret the hours of indiscretion and waste; through thy forgiveness may I have thy help over past wrongs.  May I have a deeper conception of a profitable life, that I may hereafter live by it.  Amen.

JUNE THIRD

Sydney Smith born 1771.

Dr. John Gregory born 1724.

Richard Cobden born 1804.

Jefferson Davis born 1808.

Norman Macleod born 1812.

Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.  Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the law of the universe, the soul worships truth and love, honor and courtesy flow into all deeds.

    —­Ralph Waldo Emerson.

    Kind actions, and good wishes, and pure thoughts
    No mystery is here:  Here is no boon
    For high—­yet not for low:  The smoke ascends
    To heaven as lightly from the cottage hearth
    As from the haughtiest palace.

    —­William Wordsworth.

    Given to hospitality.

    —­Romans 12. 13.

Gracious Father, I beseech thee to give me wisdom for kind thoughts and deeds.  Teach me true hospitality, that I may be gracious in my own home and appreciative in the home of others.  May I not temper my hospitality for certain reasons, but have a genuine welcome for all.  Amen.

JUNE FOURTH

George III born 1738.

Lord Edward Fitzgerald died 1798.

General Garnet Wolseley born 1833.

    This is the gospel of labor—­ring it,
      Ye bells of the kirk—­
    The Lord of Love came down from above
      To live with the men who work. 
    This is the rose he planted, here
      In the thorn-cursed soil;
    Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but
      The blessing of earth is toil.

    —­Henry van Dyke

    No man is born into the world whose work
    Is not born with him.  There is always work
    And tools to work withal, for those who will;
    And blessed are the horny hands of toil.