Morning and evening meditations for every day in month

Preface

IT has been suggested by an eminent Christian that a text should be every morning selected, which may be carried in the thoughts through the day, serving for self-government and religious improvement, for excitement or restraint, in the various circumstances of life. By thus dwelling on a short passage of the sacred writings, a deeper and a fuller meaning will be discovered, which may have been lost without this close and serious consideration of it. "It might be a profitable exercise, " says the late Rev. John Foster, " sometimes to try our faith in particulars. Go to any part of God's revelation, one and another, and say, f Here is something for my faith, i.e. for me to believe, and to be in right manner affected by. Has my faith ever been here ? Has this really been taken within its compass ? It is true I did not discredit or deny this, or this ; — but has it been to me what the Divine Spirit wrote it here for ? Has it been to me that instruction, impression, holy influence, for which it was designed ? ' "

To assist in that private meditation on the Scriptures which will make them to the heart of each individual profitable for edification, strength and comfort, and which is the best preparation for secret prayer, this little volume has been compiled, and the Divine blessing is implored upon it.

M. C.