SEPTEMBER FIRST
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Edward Alleyn born 1566.
Lydia Sigourney born 1791.
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., born 1795.
William Stanley Jevons born 1835.
O ye, who proudly boast, In your veins, the blood of sires like these, Look to their lineaments. Dread lest ye lose Their likeness in your sons. Should mammon cling Too close around your heart, or wealth beget That bloated luxury which eats the core From manly virtue, or the tempting world Make faint the Christian purpose in your soul, Turn ye to Plymouth Rock, and where they knelt Kneel, and renew the vow they breathed to God. —Lydia Sigourney.
Educate children without religion, and you make a race of clever devils.
—Duke of Wellington.
Remember his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations. —1 Chronicles 16. 15.
O Lord of wisdom, kindle me with a love for true knowledge, that I may strive, in the moments I have now, to culture my life. Not by might, not by power, but by thy spirit, O Lord, may I learn and teach thy children. Amen.