Leaves of Life - June 5

JUNE FIFTH

• Socrates born B. C. 469.
• Dr. Adam Smith born 1723.
• Karl Maria von Weber died 1826.
• O. Henry died 1910.

You think that upon the score of foreknowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
—Socrates.

How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
—Psalm 36. 7.

Eternal God, forbid that I should try to set up thy judgment-seat in so small a place as self, and attempt to render decisions for thee. My soul lives anew as I think of thy love, and that there is no place where thy mercy can be withheld from me. Amen.