Produced by Stephen Schulze and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Team LEAVES OF LIFE FOR DAILY INSPIRATION BY MARGARET BIRD STEINMETZ 1914 The Bible text used in this book is taken from the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible, copyright, 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons, and is used by permission. DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED IN GATHERING THESE LEAVES--AND TO THOSE WHO MAY GATHER SOMETHING FROM THEM. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Macmillan Company, New York, N.Y. Shailer Mathews, Jane Addams, Newell Dwight Hillis, Marion Crawford. The Century Company, New York, N.Y. S. Weir Mitchell, Theodore Roosevelt, John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Watson Gilder, Edith Thomas. Oxford University Press, London, E.C. Annie Matheson. The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio. Joseph Jefferson. Mitchell Kennerley, New York. Theodosia Garrison: My Litany. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, N.Y. Charles W. Eliot: The Durable Satisfactions of Life. J.R. Miller. The Pilgrim Press, Boston, Mass. Henry Ward Beecher. Harper & Brothers, New York, N.Y. Will Carleton: Farm Legends. Margaret E. Sangster: Easter Bells. Elbert Hubbard, Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, N.Y. Printed by special permission of the publishers. W.B. Conkey, Hammond, Ind. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, copyrighted 1912. National W.C.T.U., Evanston, Ill. Frances E. Willard. American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pa. W.E. Winks. Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago, Ill. Marie Bashkirtseff. Tennesseean and American, Nashville, Tenn. G. Rice. Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York, N.Y. O. Henry. The H.M. Rowe Company, Baltimore, Md. Edwin Leibfreed: Poems. Permission from President Wilson for the excerpts from his speeches. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. Kate Douglas Wiggin, Richard Watson Gilder, Josephine Peabody, John Hay, Hugo Muensterberg, Edith Thomas, Lyman Abbott, John Burroughs, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Lucy Larcom, Bret Harte, Bayard Taylor, Alice Freeman Palmer, Thomas W. Higginson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N.Y. Henry van Dyke: Music and Other Poems. Maltbie D. Babcock: Thoughts for Every Day Living. Sidney Lanier: Poems of Sidney Lanier. Robert Bridges: Robert Bridges' Poems. George Meredith: Last Poems. James Anthony Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects. Robert Louis Stevenson: Poems and Works. W.E. Henley: Poems. Eugene Field: Western Verse. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London. Arthur Christopher Benson: Along the Road, Silent Isle, From a College Window, Joyous Gard, Lord Vyet and Other Poems. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Mass. Emily Dickinson, Laura E. Richards, Edward Everett Hale. George H. Doran Company, New York, N.Y. Sir Oliver Lodge, Arnold Bennett, J. Stalker, A.H. Begbie.