The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah
    Is riches, and honor, and life.

    —­Proverbs 22. 4.

Lord God, who keepest truth to generations, and who through love and wisdom hath gathered us into nations, forgive me for what I have done that is wrong, and for what I have neglected that was right.  May I give greater loyalty to my country and to thee.  Amen.

AUGUST TENTH

Founding of Greenwich Observatory 1675.

Sir Charles Napier born 1782.

George Park Fisher born 1827.

    No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation
    unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best
    he can to keep out of it.

    —­John Ruskin.

    Men at some time are masters of their fates: 
    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
    But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

    —­William Shakespeare.

    The greatest punishment one can have is to discover, not how hard,
    but how low he has fallen.

    —­M.B.S.

    O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away
    from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is
    falsely so-called.

    —­1 Timothy 6. 20.

Almighty God, through thy mercies may I recognize my faults, and correct any evil that is in me.  Make me strong, that I may not yield to temptation.  May I have regard for thy will and be prepared to take thy messages as they are flashed to the soul.  Amen.

AUGUST ELEVENTH

Jean Victor Moreau born 1761.

Octave Feuillet born 1821.

Signer Crispi died 1901.

    Heaven overreaches you and me,
    And all earth’s gardens and her graves. 
    Look up with me, until we see
    The day break and the shadows flee. 
    What though to-night wrecks you and me
    If so to-morrow saves?

    —­Christina G. Rossetti.

The essence of joy lies in the doing rather than in the result of the doing.  There is a lifelong and solid satisfaction in any productive labor, manual or mental, which is not pushed beyond the limit of strength.

    —­Charles W. Eliot.

    Show me thy ways, O Jehovah;
    Teach me thy paths. 
    Guide me in thy truths, and teach me.

    —­Psalm 25. 4, 5.

My Father, keep me where my eyes may look expectantly toward the dawn, through the darkness.  Take away everything that comes between me and the brightness of the morning.  Amen.

AUGUST TWELFTH

Robert Southey born 1774.

Francis Horner born 1778.

Edith Thomas born 1854.

Katherine Lee Bates born 1859.