EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR SCRIPTURE PASSAGES AND PARALLEL SELECTIONS JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ARRANGED BY GERTRUDE W. CARTLAND LONDON SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON PREFACE. THOSE who are familiar with the writings of John Greenleaf Whittier must have noticed the frequency of his Biblical allusions, and the devotional spirit that breathes through his lines. While tracing some of these allusions to their Scriptural source, the thought has suggested itself, that to place these corresponding passages side by side for daily contemplation might be a welcome service to my former pupils, and all who love to feed upon the utterances of pious hearts. Fully aware of the imperfection of the work, I can only hope the gems thus presented may lead to a more attentive search of the rich mines of inspiration whence they have been drawn. NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 5 Mo., 1884. G. W. C. The words of the pure are pleasant words. PROVERBS Xv. 26. Christianity is not simply historical and traditional, but present and permanent, with its roots in the infinite past and its branches in the infinite future the eternal spring and growth of Divine love; not the dying echo of words uttered centuries ago, never to be repeated, but God's good tidings spoken afresh in every soul, the perennial fountain and unstinted outflow of wisdom and goodness, forever old and forever new. - WHITTIER (Introduction to "Patience of Hope"). |