Saint Bernard died 1153.
Robert Herrick born 1591.
John and Cornelius De Witt killed 1672.
Francis Asbury born 1745.
Henry P. Liddon born 1829.
Benjamin Harrison, Ohio, twenty-third President
United States, born 1833.
The busy world shoves angrily aside
The man who stands with arms akimbo set
Until occasion tells him what to do;
And he who waits to have his task marked out
Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
--James Russell Lowell.
Awake, arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
--Henry W. Longfellow.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow;
For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
--Proverbs 27. 1.
Gracious Father, grant that I may not tarry so long, that when I
arrive I will hear, "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now"; but may
I be so persistent with every day that when I arrive I may be ready as
well as on time. Amen.