Joseph Addison died 1719.

Charles Francois Gounod born 1818.

Sir E. C. Burne-Jones died 1898.

      He who plants a tree
      Plants a hope. 
    Rootlets up through fibers blindly grope,
      Leaves unfold unto horizons free. 
      So man’s life must climb
      From the clods of time
      Unto heavens sublime. 
    Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
    What the glory of the boughs shall be?

    —­Lucy Larcom.

    Very early, I perceived that the object of life is to grow.

    —­Margaret Fuller.

    Many a genius has been slow of growth.  Oaks that flourish for a
    thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

    —­George Henry Lewes.

    And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
    men.

    —­Luke 2. 52.

Almighty God, thy power is so great I cannot express it; help me to comprehend the meaning of it, that I may feel more profoundly thy expectations of my life.  May I remember that to forget that life is eternal may make me to lose all it has grown.  Amen.

JUNE EIGHTEENTH

Robert Stewart born 1769.

Battle of Waterloo 1815.

William Cobbett died 1835.

    Not he the threatening texts who deals
      Is highest ’mong the preachers,
    But he who feels the woes and weals
      Of all God’s wandering creatures. 
    He doth good work whose heart can find
      The spirit ’neath the letter;
    Who makes his kind of happier mind,
      Leaves wiser men and better.

    Dear Bard and Brother! let who may
      Against thy faults be railing,
    (Though far, I pray, from us be they
      That never had a failing!)

    —­James Russell Lowell.

    Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of
    God:  for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will
    recompense, saith the Lord.

    —­Romans 12. 19.

Heavenly Father, I pray that I may not be so occupied in expressing my judgment of others, that I will forget to live in thy judgment myself.  May I have the compassion for others that I hope to receive from thee.  Amen.

JUNE NINETEENTH

Magna Charta signed, Runnymede, 1215.

Blaise Pascal born 1623.

Charles H. Spurgeon born 1834.

    Find your niche and fill it.  If it is ever so little, if it is only
    a hewer of wood or a drawer of water, do something in the great
    battle for God and truth.

    —­Charles Spurgeon.

If I do what I may in earnest, I need not mourn if I work no great work on earth.  To help the growth of a thought that struggles toward the light; to brush with gentle hand the stain from the white of one snowdrop—­such be my ambition.

    —­George Macdonald.