July Eleventh
Robert de Bruce born 1274.
Jean Marmontel born 1723.
John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, sixth President United States, born 1767.
Susan Warner (E. Wetherell) born 1819.
A friend to chide me when I’m wrong,
My inmost soul to see:
And that my friendship prove as strong
For him as his for me.
—John Quincy Adams.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can: this is the service of a friend.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
—Ecclesiastes 7. 5, 6.
My Father and Friend, who calleth me to check the progress of the wrong, make me submissive and eager for what is right, that I may learn and uphold to others thy purposes and desires. Amen.