MARCH TWENTY-EIGHTH
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Santi d'Urbino Raphael born 1483.
Sir Thomas Smith born 1514.
Margaret (Peg) Woffington died 1760.
They may not need me, Yet they might; I'll let my heart be Just in sight— A smile so small As mine might be Precisely their Necessity. —Unknown.
You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh too at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all. —Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other.
—Ephesians 4. 31.
Lord God, I pray that I may be fair, and not pass judgment on those whom I like or those whom I dislike, and so bring unhappy regrets. May I remember that, though hasty judgment often may be temporary, the gain or loss of a friend may be permanent. Amen.