Christian Foundations
DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER SECOND
- Marie Antoinette born 1755.
- Field-Marshal Radetzky born 1766.
- James Knox Polk, North Carolina, eleventh President United States, born 1795.
Overmastering pain—the most deadly and tragical element in life—alas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders in a dream, no less surely than it rules upon the field of battle, or sends the immortal war-god whimpering to his father; and innocence, no more than philosophy, can protect us from this sting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
