AUTHOR OF "DR. GRANT AND THE MOUNTAIN NESTORIANS," "WOMAN AND HER LGRIM CONGREGATIONAL "He looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice." SOL. SONG, ii. 9. BOSTON: CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE, BEACON STREET. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by GOULD AND LINCOLN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSION FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS LIBRARY 652 L 325 qC 1868 PREFACE. THESE pages lay no special claim to originality. They were prepared at first for those to benefit whom the writer was accustomed to read works on the Scriptures, as well as study the Scriptures themselves; and they are now sent to the press at the urgent request of a dear friend, who, benefited himself by the truths they set forth, desires that others also may be partakers of his joy. The fact that cold water from the mossy spring quenches thirst, irrespective of the value of the cup that conveys it to the lips of the weary traveller, has been an encouragement to comply with the request, though not even the costliest human setting would be worthy of the divine jewels of the truth as it is in Jesus. |