Robert Bruce died 1329.

George Bryan (Beau Brummel) born 1778.

Rev. W.D.  Conybeare born 1787.

    When the lamp is shattered
      The light in the dust lies dead—­
    When the cloud is scattered
      The rainbow’s glory is shed. 
    When the lute is broken
      Sweet tones are remembered not;
    When the lips have spoken
      Loved accents are soon forgot.

    —­Percy Bysshe Shelley.

    A slip of the rose may take root, and bring forth a bloom to give
    peace to the soul.  A slip of the tongue may take root, and bring
    forth a thorn that will torture the soul.

    —­M.B.S.

    Abide in me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of
    itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye
    abide in me.

    —­John 15. 4.

Many of us, O Father, overlook the fragrance of the rose while we are being pierced by its thorn.  Increase my faith in life and in thee, that I may not be dismayed over mysteries, but sincerely wait for deliverance.  Amen.

JUNE EIGHTH

Mohammed died 632.

Thomas Rickman born 1776.

Charles Reade born 1814.

John Everett Millais born 1829.

    If one touch of nature makes the whole world kin, methinks that
    sweet and wonderful thing sympathy is not less powerful.  What golden
    barriers, what ice of centuries, it can melt in a moment!

    —­Charles Reade.

    If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one to buy white
    hyacinths to feed my soul.

    —­Mohammed.

    What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for
    each other?

    —­George Eliot.

    Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to
    visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
    oneself unspotted from the world.

    —­James 1. 27.

My Father, help me to understand that kind hearts and willing hands are made possible by the depth and greatness of thy love.  May I possess the spirit of forgiveness and consideration, that I may not hold prejudice and revenge, but help with sympathy and tenderness.  Amen.

JUNE NINTH

George Stephenson born 1781.

John Howard Payne born 1791.

Richard D. Blackmore born 1825.

Charles Dickens died 1870.

    Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many; not
    upon your past misfortunes, of which all have some.

    —­Charles Dickens.

    ’Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
    Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home! 
    A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
    Which, sought through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere. 
      Home! home! sweet, sweet home! 
      There’s no place like home!