Loving Beauty, learn

To shun, abhorrent, all the mental eye
Beholds deformed and foul, for so shall Love
Climb to the source of goodness.

SOUTHEY. Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal more. CERVANTES, 1547.

Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day.

HORACE.

ISAAC WILLIAMS.

Oh! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest
When they promise a glorious morrow;
They'll shine on her sleep like a smile from the West,
From her own loved island of sorrow.

July 10.

T. MOORE.

Thou hast possibilities in thee for much—the possibility of writing on the eternal skies the record of a heroic life.

CARLYLE.

Have thy tools ready; God will find thee work. The Saint's Tragedy: KINGSley.

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the Fall.

CowPER.

So shalt thou be the lamp to light his path
What time the shades of sorrow close around.
LEWIS CARROLL.

We know, too, that our dear ones who have slept in Thee are dwelling calm and safe in Thy holy keeping. Voices of Comfort.

We may better serve Him

When, through His dear love, we meet again.

J. S. B. MONSELL

July 10.

Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not born to to-morrow. JEREMY TAYLOR.

One was his love, and fair was she! OSSIAN.

bless us doubly

With holy doctrine, and with holy prayers.

The Saint's Tragedy: KINGSLEY.

Awhile the dear old home seemed changed to him, Desolate and unlovely, but ere long

The sense of darkness and of loneliness

Left it, for it was peopled from the Past,

And brightened with the Future.

The Knight of Intercession.

July 12.

Convince the world that you're devout and true,
Be just in all you say and all you do.

JUVENAL.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. NAT. HAWTHORNE.

Thou art my stay, my glory, and my trust.

Ódes of Horace.

He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

Ecclesiasticus, xxxvi. 24.

At her best and loveliest

She was not, God had taken her to grace
His own High Temple.

Elijah and other Poems: B. M.

The kingdom of the resurrection is before us, all

new, all enduring, all divine.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING.

July 12.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease; and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health. The Adventurer.

He knew what's what, and that's as high

As metaphysic wit can fly. BUTLER'S Hudibras.

I heartily congratulate this marriage, and pray that a blessing may descend upon it from that place where all marriages are made; which is from heaven, the fountain of all felicity. JAMES HOWELL, 1622.

All are not taken, there are left behind
Living beloveds, tender looks to bring,
And make the daylight still a blessed thing.
MRS. BARRETT BROWNING.

God shall wake the dead, and give this mortal
Proverbial Philosophy: TUPPER.

immortality.

July 14.

Through all this complicated web [of life] there is one golden thread, which runs on without breaking, and that is the thread of duty, which is the thread of honour, and usefulness, and happiness. This leads us into spheres which go on enlarging and enlarging still, with every step in life.

Sermons in the East: STANLEY.

So blessed and blessing, loving and beloved, they went on, hand in hand together, on a path which was made very happy and smooth for them.

Faucit of Baliol.

Doubt not but that in the worlds above
There must be other offices of love,
That other tasks and ministries there are,
Since it is promised that his servants, there
Shall serve Him still.

R. C. TRENCH.