A Basket of Barley Loaves

Transcriber's note.
The author is not listed on the title page but has been identified as Mary Christina Miller.
A few apparent typographical errors have been corrected.
Chapters II to XVIII begin with a short quotation from Psalm 104. For technical reasons the quotation marks have been omitted.
BY THE Author of The High Mountain Apart and Sacramental Sabbaths.
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves. —John vi. 9.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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TO MY FORMER PASTOR,
Rev. ALEXANDER DICKSON,
WHO TAUGHT ME