--Job 8. 20, 21.

Almighty God, help me to understand that peace does not come in
rebellion or grieving, but is obtained through the calm of the soul.
Grant that if I may be perplexed or worried to-day, I may have the
power to control myself and wait in thy strength. Amen.




JANUARY NINTH

Dr. Thomas Brown born 1778.

Elizabeth O. Benger died 1822.

Caroline Lucretia Herschel died 1848, aged ninety-seven.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness altogether past calculation
its powers of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be
uniformly joyous--a spirit of all sunshine.

--Thomas Carlyle.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

--Washington Irving.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.