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 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 
 
 1850-1894. 
 A morning prayer 
 
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 Braper 
 
 And Other Beautiful Prayers 
 
 by 
 
 Robert Louis Stevenson 
 
 New York 
 
 The Dodge Publishing Company 
 
 40 East zpth Street 
 
^ iWornins draper 
 
 HE day returns and brings 
 us the petty round of irri- 
 tating concerns and duties. 
 Help us to play the man, 
 help us to perform them with laughter 
 and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound 
 with industry. Give us to go blithely on 
 our business all this day, bring us to our 
 resting beds weary and content and un- 
 dishonored, and grant us in the end the 
 gift of sleep. 
 
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 ORD, look down upon our- 
 selves and upon our absent 
 dear ones. Help us and 
 them. Give us health, 
 food, bright weather, and light hearts. 
 In what we meditate of evil, frustrate our 
 will; in what of good, further our en- 
 deavors. Cause injuries to be forgot and 
 benefits to be remembered. Let us lie 
 down without fear and awake and arise 
 with exultation, for His sake. Amen. 
 
F there be some weaker 
 
 one, 
 Give me strength to 
 help him on ; 
 
 If a blinder soul there be 
 Lei me guide him nearer Thee ; 
 Make my mortal dreams come true 
 With the work I fain would do ; 
 Clothe with life the weak intent, 
 Let me be the thing I meant; 
 Let me find in Thy employ, 
 Peace that dearer is than joy; 
 Out of self to love be led, 
 And to Heaven acclimated, 
 Until all things sweet and good 
 
 Seem my natural habitude. 
 
 — /. G, Whittier 
 
AM quite sure that one 
 secret of youth is to 
 keep up with deter- 
 mined and steady hand, 
 
 one's own tone, to 
 avoid ruts and narrowing circles. 
 
 — F. IV. Ware 
 
T is not what a man 
 gets, but what a man 
 is, that he should think 
 of. He should first 
 think of his character, 
 and then of his condition. He that 
 has character need have no fear of 
 his condition. Character will draw 
 condition after it. 
 
 //. W. Beechcr 
 
"F any little word of 
 
 ours can make one life 
 
 the brighter; 
 
 If any little song of 
 
 ours can make one 
 
 heart the lighter; 
 
 God help us speak that little word, 
 
 and take our bit of singing, 
 And drop it in some lonely vale, 
 and set the echoes ringing. 
 
^ET the weakest, let the 
 W humblest remember 
 that in his daily course 
 he can, if he will, shed 
 around him almost a 
 heaven. Kindly words, sympathiz- 
 ing attentions, watchfulness against 
 wounding men's sensitiveness — 
 these cost very little but they are 
 priceless in their value. 
 
 — F, IV. Robertson 
 
EXPECT to pass 
 through this life but 
 once. If, therefore, 
 there is any kindness 
 I can show, or any 
 good I can do to any fellow- 
 being, let me do it now, let me not 
 defer it, for I shall not pass this 
 way again. 
 
 — Mrs, A, B, Hegeman 
 
^1 OU will find as you look 
 ^''^- back upon your life 
 that the moments that 
 _^^^ stand out, the moments 
 
 when you have really lived, are the 
 moments when you have done things 
 in a spirit of love. 
 
 — Henry Drummond 
 
HE little worries which 
 
 we meet each day, 
 May be as stumbling- 
 blocks across our 
 way, 
 Or we may make them stepping 
 stones to be 
 
 Of grace, O Lord to Thee. 
 
 — A. E, Hamilton 
 
UARD well within your- 
 3 self that treasure, kind- 
 ness. Know how to 
 give without hesitation, 
 how to lose without re- 
 gret, how to acquire without mean- 
 ess. 
 
 — George Sand 
 
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