"I COUNT not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Text of Bishop Brooks's last address at Wellesley College.

SCHLÄFT ein Lied in allen Dingen.

December 6.

Eichendorff.

BLESSED is the man who has the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes.

In every look, word, deed, and thought,
Nothing but sweet and womanly.

Coventry Patmore.

To live, and see her learn, and learn by her
Out of the low, obscure, and petty world;

Or only see one purpose and one will

Evolve themselves i' the world, change wrong to right:
To have to do with nothing but the true,
The good, the eternal, and these not alone

In the main current of the general life,
But small experience of every day
Concerns of the particular hearth and home.

It is my habit

I hope I may say, my nature believe the best of people, rather than the worst.

Robert Browning.

to

George W. Curtis.

December 8.

WHAT is this, the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear,

Like the wind in hollow valleys, when the storm is drawing

near,

Like the rolling on of ocean in the eventide of fear?

'Tis the people marching on.

"On we march then, we, the workers, and the rumor that ye hear

Is the blended sound of battle and deliv'rance drawing near; For the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear.” And the world is marching on.

William Morris.

"AN' luve is mair than a' the things a man can

see wi' his een or haud in his hands."

J. M. Barrie.