The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives

With Numerous Illustrations by Noel Humphreys, Harrison Weir, Wimperis Pritchett, Miss Edwards, and other eminent Artists.
THE HARVEST OF A QUIET EYE.
LEISURE THOUGHTS FOR BUSY LIVES.
By the Author of “My Study Chair,” “Musings,” etc.
LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; And 164, Piccadilly.
“ The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude.
“ In common things that round us lie, Some random truths he can impart, —The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart. ”
WORDSWORTH.
CONTENTS.

These papers, written in the intervals of parish work, have appeared in the pages of the Leisure Hour and the Sunday at Home . Their publication in a collected form having been decided upon by others, it only remained for me, by careful revision and excision, to render them as little unworthy as might be of starting for themselves in the wide world.
I shall not say that I am sorry that they are thus sent forth on their humble mission. Indeed, I am glad. “Brief life is here our portion”:—and surely the wish is one natural to all earnest hearts, that our work for our Master in this sad and sinful world should not have its term together with the quick ending of our short day’s labour here:—and a book has the possibility of a longer life than that of a man. The Night cometh, when none can work; how sweet, if it might be, that when the day is ended, when the warfare, for us, is over, we may have left some strong watchwords, or some comfortable and cheering utterances, still ringing in the ears of those who stepped into our place in the unbroken ranks.