"If I have made gold my hope . . . this also were an iniquity
to be punished."—JOB xxxi.
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth."—MATT. vi.
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PREFACE.
THE following pages are issued with two objects:—
First; they may be used for daily meditation on rising or retiring to rest, in the quiet chamber, when none but God is near.
Secondly; for short services in sick chambers, or for invalids. Many a child of God suffers from infirmities of such a nature that none but a very short service can be borne. This may be carried out by reading the whole chapter, or a portion of it, from which the text is taken; then the address, and the poem. This may be preceded or followed by a short prayer, thus compressing the entire service within ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.