MAY TWENTY-FOURTH
Reading edition
Jean Paul Marat born 1744.
Stephen Girard born 1750.
Sir Robert Adair born 1763.
Queen Victoria born 1819.
Caroline Fox born 1819.
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet, or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. —Robert Browning.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws—that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
—Honore Balzac.
But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.
—Proverbs 29. 25.
Lord Jehovah, all goodness, tenderness, and forbearance that are in my life have come from thee. May I not lose them in self, but by them make possible happiness and endurance for others. Amen.