JUNE 9. Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Home! Home! Sweet Home! There's no place like Home. I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, and I exhort my children to guids themselves by the teachings of the New Testament. Charles Dickens, died June 9, 1870. JUNE 10. In South America there is room for five hundred million more people. Some day it will have that many, and all will acknowledge the Government at Washington. We in England will not grudge you this added power. With the completion of the canal across the Isthmus, you must have control of the Egypt of the new world. 1 Simple gifts are given freely in the house where good mem dwell, Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire and water from the well. Pity them that crave thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When the holy moon shines equal on the leper and the Edwin Arnold, born June 10, 1832. lord? JUNE 11. O Love Divine! uplift, ennoble, recreate me, And guide me in thy saving school, Frederic D. Huntington, 1819-1904. Vice in general consists in having an unreasonable and too great regard to self in comparison of others. JUNE 12. Joseph Butler. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Charles Kingsley, born June 12, 1819. (Thomas Arnold, died June 12, 1842) In the sounding labor-house vast And through thee I believe In the noble and great who are gone; Pure souls honored and blest By former ages, friends of mankind. Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888. JUNE 13. Where can we find a name so holy that we may surrender our whole souls to it, before which obedience, reverence, humility, adoration, may all be duly rendered? There is one name alone in heaven and earth-not truth, not justice, not benevolence, not Christ's mother, not his holiest servants, not his sacraments, not the church, but Jesus Christ Himself only. Newman and his party put Christ's church and sacraments and ministers in the place of Christ. I am called a no-Church man, because I respect not the idol which has slipped into God's place, that is, the Priesthood, which does not seem to me to be false only in its excess, but altogether false from the beginning, the master falsehood, still spared as a harmless and venerable error, if not as a sacred truth. Thomas Arnold, born June 13, 1795. JUNE 14. My good health is summed up in one word, Moderation. I am a moderate eater and drinker, moderate in my work, as well as in my pleasure, and I believe the best way to preserve the mental and physical faculties is to keep them employed. W. C. Bryant, died June 12, 1878, aged 84. Bryant had the wisdom of age in his youth, and the fire of youth in his age. Mark Hopkins, died June 17, 1887, aged 85. JUNE 15. The American government is the only permanent republic which ever based itself upon the principles laid down by Jesus Christ of the brotherhood of man and the rights of men on the simple ground of manhood. This was the leading idea of the men who founded our government. The Declaration of Independence crystalized a religious teaching within a political act. The Constitution still further elaborates these principles. Harriet Beecher Stowe, born June 15, 1811. JUNE 16. To be righteous implies the love of righteousness; to be benevolent, the love of benevolence; to be good, the love of goodness; and the love of God is the love of perfect goodness contemplated in a being or person. Thus morality and religion, virtue and piety, will at last coincide, run up into one and the same point, and love be in all senses the end of the commandment. O Almighty God, inspire us with this divine principle; kill in us all seeds of envy and ill-will; help us, by cultivating within ourselves the love of our neighbor, to improve in the love of Thee. Thou hast placed us in various kindreds, friendships, and relations, as the school of discipline for our affections. Help us by the exercise of them to improve to perfection; till all partial affection be lost in that entire universal one, and Thou, O God, shalt be all in all. Joseph Butler, died June 16, 1752, aged 60. JUNE 17. Though always in haste, I am never in a hurry. I fret at nothing. I have kept my accounts exactly for upwards of seventy-six years. I save all I can, and give all I can. John Wesley, born June 17, 1703. JUNE 18 In the Catholic service-book the lessons are in general shorter than in ours. They aim at being complete in themselves, and at producing one distinct impression, which is the right aim for lessons. Chapters are broken up, verses left out, and things naturally related brought together, to produce a clearer impression. The unknown arranger of these old lessons followed the instinct of a true critic, love for what is clear and impressive. He is an instance of the truth that in many cases Catholics are less superstitious in dealing with the Bible than Protestants. Matthew Arnold. |