--Luke 16. 10

Almighty God, may I understand that thou art in everything and that I
cannot hide from thee, for thou boldest me though I know it not. Give
me the desire, and help me to learn of thy laws, that I may know that
even in the least of things, I have the liberty to obtain happiness by
obeying them. Amen.




JANUARY FOURTH

Archbishop Usher born 1580.

Jacob L. Carl Grimm born 1785.

Elizabeth Peabody died 1894.

Years rush by us like the wind, we see not whence the eddy comes,
nor whitherward it is tending, and we seem ourselves to witness
their flight without a sense that we are changed: and yet time is
beguiling man of his strength, as the winds rob the trees of their
foliage.

--Sir Walter Scott.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of Time
But from its loss. To give it, then a tongue