Such is the plan and purpose of this little book. It is made for busy men and women, who _need_ to begin the day with God. The quotations for each day are brief, but they are gleaned from the great Masters of thought. The prayers are from devout men of all the denominations. As the title will have suggested, both quotations and prayers are generally in the spirit of a truly optimistic faith. However life may look in the middle of the night, it is a good thing to start out to do the work of the day with hope and courage. I shall be glad if I can feel that this little book has helped some busy people to begin the day in this spirit. I shall be particularly glad if I can feel that it has helped a little to keep the candles lighted on the family altar. FLORENCE HOBART PERIN. List of Authors of Selections Abbott, Lyman, 234, 296. Albee, John, 348. Alden, Marion, 263. Ambrosius, Johanna, 254. Ames, Charles G., 51, 68. Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, 305, 340, 350. Anonymous, 16, 33, 52, 91, 93, 129, 181, 198, 213, 268, 354. Arnold, Edwin, 39. Arnold, George, 249. Aughey, 315. Aurelius, Marcus, 216. Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, 279. Baldwin, Mary, 72. Banks, G. L., 135. Bashford, H. H., 9. Beecher, Henry Ward, 120, 141, 144, 192, 317, 333. Bisbee, Frederick A., 248. Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 211. Boyd, A. H. K., 78. Bridges, Madeline S., 304. Brooke, Stopford A., 27, 115, 289. Brooks, Phillips, 17, 24, 36, 75, 137, 212, 235, 240, 264, 271, 288, 362. Brown, Alice, 218. Brown, Anna Robertson, 51. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 29, 104, 148, 232, 331. Browning, Robert, 28, 64, 69, 79, 90, 109, 130, 179, 201, 221, 243. Bryant, William Cullen, 249, 338. Bulkeley, Benjamin R., 347. Burton, Richard, 59. Carlisle, J. H., 220. Carlyle, Thomas, 37, 61, 85, 107, 164, 183, 209, 219, 269, 331. Carman, Bliss, 156. Carpenter, Edward, 147. Carruth, William H., 252. Cary, Alice, 123, 138, 366. Chadwick, John White, 134. Child, Lydia Maria, 364. Clarke, James Freeman, 267. Cleaves, Charles P., 214. Coates, Florence E., 189. Coleridge, Hartley, 245. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 217. Collyer, Robert, 77, 287. Confucius, 191. Coolidge, Susan, 150, 157, 207, 339. Cowper, William, 335. Cox, Francis Augustus, 276. Craig, Dinah Mulock, 143. Crashaw, Richard, 151. Danforth, Abbie E., 357. Davis, Ozora Stearns, 82. DeVere, Aubrey, 71. Dix, William F., 261. Dodge, Henry Nehemiah, 49, 300, 371, 372. Donaldson, Alfred L., 244. Dowd, Emma C., 169. Drummond, Henry, 91, 203, 323. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 88, 186, 256. Earle, Mabel, 278. Eliot, George, 48, 241. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 19, 42, 57, 87, 108, 124, 127, 151, 158, 185, 210, 228, 271, 281, 344. Epictetus, 56, 284. Faunce, W. H. P., 153. Fiske, John, 11. Ford, Mary Hanaford, 8.