The reef, and other parables

Book i ____ THE REEF, AND OTHER PARABLES

BOOKS

REV. E. H. BICKERSTETH.

i.

YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOREVER. A Poem

in Twelve Books. 12mo. Price $2.00; cheap edition, $1.25.

"It is truly wonderful in conception, sweet and beautiful in execution, and stirs the soul by the grand and awful revelations it brings before it. We do not hesitate to pronounce it the greatest sacred poem that has been written in modern times." — S. S. Times.

II. THE TWO BROTHERS, and Other Poems. 12mo

11 The more recent poems of Mr. Bickersteth are instinct with the spirit of true poetry, full of original power and conception, aod are often imbued with a delicate sweetness and truth of feeling all their own." — Standard, London.

THE SPIRIT OF LIFE; or, Scripture Testimony to

the Divine Person and Work of the Holy Ghost. 12m o.

VI. THE MASTER'S HOME-CALL; or, Brief Memorials

have been sold in England of this little book.) 32mo gilt.

Price 50 cents.

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BY

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH,

AUTHOR OF "YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOREVER."

" Though what, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought-"

> Paradise Lost.

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS,

530 Broadway.

Cambridge : Press of JoJm Wilson and Son.

GIFT BERTRAM SMITH

TO MY YOUNG FRIENDS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

r I ^HESE parables were most of them written in a home, which for long years had been one of sunshine and of song. The storms had indeed lately fallen upon us once and again ; but God, who is rich in consolation, granted us a season of clear shining after rain, until, as these pages were passing through the press, a cloud of sorrow greater than any we had known before almost suddenly overshadowed us. The light of earth was darkened and the voice of laughter hushed. But you, dear friends, who are disciples in the school of Jesus, have learned at His feet that the golden glow of heaven can shine down upon our pilgrim path in the cloudy and dark day, and its melodies be heard by those who listen for them over the

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waves of this troublesome world. May I then venture to ask (for I set great store by the prayers of young warm hearts) that, if you find your trust and love and patience quickened by any of the stories in this little volume, you will sometimes pray that the writer and his motherless children may, in their shadowed home, see the far-off glory and catch the music of that better land, to which he has striven in every parable to lead your footsteps on.

E. H. B.