—­William McKinley.

    Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God
    and the angels know of us.

    —­Thomas Paine.

    The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

    —­George Eliot.

    Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
    Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 
    So shall we not go back from thee: 
    Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

    —­Psalm 80. 17, 18.

My Father, I pray that I may be just and be given to kindness.  May I be conscious of my virtues, and use them to overcome my faults.  May I hear clearly thy call that I may be sure of the way as I lead others to duty and happiness.  Amen.

JANUARY THIRTIETH

Archbishop Butler born 1774.

Walter Savage Landor born 1775.

Henri Rochefort born 1830.

    Why, why repine, my pensive friend,
      At pleasures slipped away? 
    Some the stern fates will never lend,
      And all refuse to stay. 
    I see the rainbow in the sky,
      The dew upon the grass;
    I see them and I ask not why
      They glimmer or they pass. 
    With folded arms I linger not
      To call them back; ’twere vain;
    In this, or in some other spot,
      I know they’ll shine again.

    —­Walter Savage Landor.

When disappointment comes meet it, but do not carry it along with you; nor fetter your spirit by changeless haste.  “Memory will always pursue some precious instance of itself,” which will bring either renewed confidence or resignation.

    —­M.  B. S.

    For thou shalt forget thy misery;
    Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away.

    —­Job 11. 16.

Gracious Father, help me to “Lift mine eyes unto the hills” that glorify the discouraging ways.  May I appreciate thy great love, and from my limitations find the possibilities that are limitless.  Amen.

JANUARY THIRTY-FIRST

Cromwell dissolved Parliament 1655.

Charles Edward (Young Pretender) died 1788.

Franz Schubert born 1797.

James G. Elaine born 1830.

    Nature demands that man be ever at the top of his condition.  He who
    violates her laws must pay the penalty, though he sit on a throne.

    —­James G. Elaine.

    Dig channels for the streams of love,
      Where they may broadly run;
    And love has overflowing streams
      To fill them every one.

    For we must share if we must keep
      The good things from above;
    Ceasing to give, we cease to have—­
      Such is the law of love.

    —­R.  C. Trench.

    And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday;
    Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.