January 20.

January 21.

Angel of Patience! sent to calm
Our feverish brows with cooling palm;
To lay the storms of hope and fear,
And reconcile life's smile and tear;
The throbs of wounded pride to still,
And make our own our Father's will.

January 23.

J. G. Whittier.

We should waste no moments in weak regret,
If the day were but one;

If what we remember and what we forget
Went out with the sun;

We should be from our clamorous selves set free,

To work or to pray,

To be what the Father would have us be,

If we had but a day.

Mrs. M. L. Dickinson.

January 24.

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, they were

souls that stood alone,

While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone,

Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline

To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine,

By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's J. R. Lowell.

supreme design.

January 23.

January 24.

Patience; accomplish thy labor, accomplish thy work of affection!

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Therefore accomplish thy labor of love till the heart is made godlike,

Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven!

January 26.

H. W. Longfellow.

Among so many, can He care?
Can special love be everywhere?
I asked: my soul bethought of this :-
In just that very place of His
Where He hath put and keepeth you,
God hath no other thing to do!

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

January 27.

I saw her there a household dove,
In consummated peace of love;
And sweeter joy and saintlier grace
Breathed o'er the beauty of her face.

The mother's smile, the children's kiss,
And home's serene abounding bliss;
The fruitage of a life that bore
But idle summer blooms before.

Bayard Taylor.

January 26.

January 27.