Christian Foundations
DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE
Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
DECEMBER TWENTY-EIGHTH
* Catherine M. Sedgwick born 1789.
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* Thomas B. Macaulay died 1859.
The government might be serviceable for many things. It might assist in a hundred ways to safeguard the lives and the health and promote the comfort and happiness of the people; but it can do these things only if they respond to public opinion, only if those who lead government see the country as a whole, feel a deep thrill of intimate sympathy with every class and every interest in it.
—Woodrow Wilson.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
—Thomas B. Macaulay.
Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah do that which seemeth him good.
—2 Samuel 10. 12.
Lord God, I pray that my estimate of life may not be as I take it, but as thou hast given it for peace and prosperity. Teach me my duty to my country, and make me useful in uplifting and serving humanity. Amen.
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