—­Charlotte Bronte.

    For ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day:  we are not of the
    night, nor of darkness.

    —­1 Thessalonians 5. 5.

Lord of light, thou art the light of my life.  May I make thee the joy and light of my soul.  Call me to where it is clear and high, that I may see above the mist.  May I not weary in climbing to reach thee in the high places.  Amen.

APRIL TWENTY-SECOND

Henry Fielding born 1707.

Immanuel Kant born 1724.

Philip James Bailey born 1816.

    We live in deeds, not years:  in thoughts, not breaths: 
    In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
    We should count time by heart-throbs.  He most lives
    Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

    —­Philip James Bailey.

    Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.  The only
    sin is limitation.  As soon as you once come up with a man’s
    limitations it is all over with him.

    —­Ralph Waldo Emerson.

    But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so
    continueth, being not a hearer that forgeteth but a doer that
    worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

    —­James 1. 25.

Lord God, help me to break away from habits that fasten me in the ruts of life.  Draw me out to thy broad way, where there are no limits to thy wonderful works, that I may expand my life.  Amen.

APRIL TWENTY-THIRD

William Shakespeare born 1564, died 1616.

Cervantes died 1616.

J.M.W.  Turner born 1775.

James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, fifteenth President
United States, born 1791.

James Anthony Froude born 1818.

Thomas Nelson Page born 1853.

Edwin Markham born 1852.

    My crown is in my heart, not on my head: 
    Not decked with diamonds and Indian Stones,
    Nor to be seen.  My crown is called content. 
    A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

    —­William Shakespeare.

    At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky
    And flinging the clouds and the towers by
      Is a place of central calm: 
    So here in the roar of mortal things,
    I have a place where my spirit sings,
      In the hollow of God’s Palm.

    —­Edwin Markham.

    Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: 
    Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way.

    —­Psalm 37. 7.

Almighty God, my heart beats quicker and the desire for thy care grows stronger when I remember thy promises are given for all eternity.  May I be grateful and contented with thy love and care.  Amen.

APRIL TWENTY-FOURTH