NOVEMBER SECOND
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Marie Antoinette born 1755.
Field-Marshal Radetzky born 1766.
James Knox Polk, North Carolina, eleventh President United States, born 1795.
Overmastering pain—the most deadly and tragical element in life—alas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders in a dream, no less surely than it rules upon the field of battle, or sends the immortal war-god whimpering to his father; and innocence, no more than philosophy, can protect us from this sting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
My hopes retire; my wishes as before Struggle to find their resting place in vain; The ebbing sea thus beats against the shore; The shore repels it; it returns again. —W. S. Landor.
Yet Jehovah will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, And in the night his song shall be with me.
—Psalm 42. 8.
Loving Father, I bless thee for thy goodness and tender mercy which is over all. May I trust thy provision and love through all circumstances, and as I trust myself to thee may I have faith to believe that thou wilt give me strength for what I may have to endure, and believe that thou wilt care for me, as thou dost care for all. Amen.