Be patient! O, be patient!--though yet our hopes are green, The harvest fields of freedom shall be crowned with sunny sheen. Be ripening! be ripening--mature your silent way, Till the whole broad land is tongued with fire on freedom's harvest day. --Richard C. Trench. And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. --James 1. 4. Gracious Father, help me to see the truth as thou hast made it, and may I not be indifferent to the beauty and patience of the earth's revelations. May I not mistake indolence for patient ambition, which I would have for anxious hours, and which I need for my heart's desires. Amen. SEPTEMBER SIXTH Moses Mendelssohn born 1729. Marquis de Lafayette born 1757. Jane Addams born 1860. God will not seek thy race, Nor will he ask thy birth; Alone he will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth? --Persian. One dreams of the time when the interest and capacity of each person shall be studied with reference to the industry about to be undertaken. --Jane Addams. Honor is purchased by deeds we do, honor is not won, until some honorable deed is done. --Sir Christopher Marlowe. In diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord. --Romans 12. 11. Gracious Father, wilt thou bring to my mind and heart the important things which are needed in preparing life. Help me to use the strength that is given to me for to-day, that I may not have to give to-morrow to learning what I should have known. Amen. SEPTEMBER SEVENTH Queen Elizabeth born 1533. Comte de Buffon born 1707. Victorien Sardou born 1831. Hannah More died 1833. John G. Whittier died 1892. Side by side In the low sunshine by the turban stone They knelt; each made his brother's woe his own, Forgetting, in the agony and stress Of pitying love, his claim of selfishness; Peace, for his friend besought, his own became; His prayers were answered in another's name; And when at last they rose up to embrace, Each saw God's pardon in his brother's face. --John G. Whittier. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it; Stands and lies by me, does what I have done, This too familiar care does make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be suppressed. --Queen Elizabeth. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. --Galatians 6. 2. Lord God, help me to look for those who are in need of help. Forgive me for my failures, and may I gather up my broken promises and try to redeem them. I ask for thy forgiveness, as I ask that thou wilt help me to forgive them who may have trespassed against me. Amen. SEPTEMBER EIGHTH Richard Coeur de Lion born 1157. A.W. Schlegel born 1767. Antonin Dvorak born 1841.