O God, can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

--Edgar Allan Poe.

Do not train up your children in hostility to the government of the
United States. Remember that we are one country now. Dismiss from
your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

--Robert E. Lee.

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea,
wait thou for Jehovah.

--Psalm 27. 14.

Lord God, I pray that if I have struggled for the wrong, and have
worked with weak hands, thou wilt forgive me for my lost strength.
Give me more light to shine upon my work, upon thy promises, and upon
my duties; and with thy wisdom may I search for the truth that is
behind every wrong, and for the purpose that is beyond all
journeyings. Amen.




JANUARY TWENTIETH