A thought and a prayer for every day in the year

PREFACE Experience seems to show that it is a help to many minds to have subjects for daily meditation and prayer suggested to them from without. Texts from Scripture, as in the "Daily Steps towards Heaven," or "The Words of the Lord Jesus," and reflections rising out of them — maxims and thoughts from the great Masters of the Devout Life, & Kempis, Augustine, Francis de Sales, Bishop Ken, Bishop Wilson — these, in manifold variety of combination, have ministered to the wants of thousands. The little work which is now presented to the Reader is framed on a different model. I have not tested it by the continued use which is the only adequate criterion in such matters ; what I have read of it, however, seems enough to justify me in commending it, without entering into any comparison of its merits with those of other Manuals of a like kind, as fitted to build up the character of those who use it, in the self-knowledge, the earnestness, the aspirations after a higher life, of which it is manifestly the outcome. E. H. PLUMPTRE. Deanery, Wells, Somerset, Oct. 29th, 1883. Digitized by Google.