Samuel Crompton born 1753.
Sir Frederick Leighton born 1830.
Robert Louis Stevenson died 1894.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the
world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul
alive.
--Robert Louis Stevenson.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right. He will grow daily
more and more right.
--Thomas Carlyle.
The hero is the man who is immovably centered.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed
with pure water.
--Hebrews 10. 22.
Gracious Father, grant that I may not be content to follow through
ignorance and indolence and be led to the lowly paths of life. Make my
Hie positive; and from my surroundings may I look out and struggle to
mount to the highest ideals, that I may be qualified to select the
best in life. Amen.