FOR 1905 SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM SALTER BURLINGTON, IOWA MAURO & WILSON. 401 Jefferson Street FOR SALE BY A. C. McCLURG & CO., CHICAGO THIS Book may be compared to the Klondike COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY WILLIAM SALTER As those old Romans robbed all the cities of ROBERT BURTON, Died January 25, 1630, aged 64. Great God! we sing that mighty hand, Philip Doddridge, died 1751, aged 49. Ring in the valiant man and free, Alfred Tennyson, died 1892, aged 83. JANUARY 2. Truth is continually presenting new aspects, which call for new forms of statement. More and more Christ is recognized as supreme authority. The constructive principle of theology is no longer Sovereignty, but Love. Christ inspired the love-atmosphere, from which have come multiplied philanthropies. Hence the increasing application of Christian principle to all forms of life, in society, industry, and the State, in literature, art, and diversion. A new morality has come, the law of Love instead of the code of abstract right. William W. Adams. 301548 JANUARY 3. Do you wish for kindness? be kind; He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits credentials of impotence. Lavater, died 1801, aged 60. JANUARY 4. God, overflowing with goodness, desiring to have angels and men to whom He could do good, made men in his own image to be rulers of the earth. The image of God consisted in power of thought and freedom of will. Man decides on his own actions. God assists by his grace those who will avail themselves of it. With all this, it remains true that virtue comes from God. He implanted it in nature; by his support alone it is maintained. Nature, rational and free, is a gift of grace. To be natural is to be virtuous; conversion is a return from the unnatural. John of Damascus, died 780, aged 94. JANUARY 5. Let me ask, ere in the night's repose I rest, Pythagoras, died aged 74, B. C. 504. JANUARY 6. I have enjoyed the refinement of the best society, but I have never sat in the palaces of England without being pained by the inequality of which the inordinate luxury was the token. I was anxious that our country should take the lead in the disarmament of the nations. Charles Sumner, born Jan. 6, 1811. |