Dr. George Birkbeck died 1841.
Queen Alexandra born 1844.
R.W. Dale born 1829.
Ebenezer Elliott died 1849.
We would fill the hours with the sweetest things,
If we had but a day:
We should drink alone at the purest springs,
In our upward way:
We should guide our wayward or wearied will,
By the clearest light:
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills,
If they lay in sight:
We should be from our clamorous selves set free,
To work and pray:
And be what the Father would have us to be,
If we had but a day.
--Margaret E. Sangster.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be
any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
--Philippians 4. 8.
Gracious Father, help me to understand that my life grows out of what
I put into my days. Forgive me for the unspoken words and the kind
deeds which I kept for rare days, and had so few occasions to use. May
I be as useful in kindness as I am in work, remembering that to thee
every day is a golden day. Amen.