Saint Patrick's Day.
Ebenezer Elliott born 1781.
Dr. Thomas Chalmers born 1780.
Moncure D. Conway born 1832.
Clara Morris born 1849.
What is really wanted is to light up the spirit
that is within a child. In some sense and in some
effectual degree there is in every child the material
of good work in the world; and in every child, not
only in those who are brilliant, not only in those
who are quick, but in those who are stolid, and even
in those who are dull.
--William Gladstone.
If you make children happy now, you will make
them happy twenty years hence by the memory of
it.
--Kate Douglas Wiggin.
And these words, which I command thee this day,
shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them
when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up.
--Deuteronomy 6. 6, 7.
Lord God, may I be diligent for the progress of
little children. Show me how I may minister unto
them; and grant that I may be able to see the
necessity of giving, more than I do the pleasure of
receiving. Amen.