Excerpt from Daily Praise and Prayer
In these brief services of devotion, the purpose has been, not to restrict each page to a single topic, but so far as possible, while preserving harmony, to give to every day some expression of the soul's varied experience and need.
The introductory sentences are from the Bible. The poetical selections have been gathered from all accessible sources, having less regard for novelty than for the choicest utterance of faith and piety. While the new may charm by freshness, the old grows richer by tender and precious association. For the prayers, these pages are indebted largely to ancient liturgies, reproduced in many modern service-books ; also, to many of the living and the dead, whose names are not given, since the material they furnish has sometimes been altered, or condensed to adapt it to the required brevity and simplicity. To the Hymn Book and Service Book prepared by Rev. James Martineau, acknowledgments are especially due. The stanzas taken from Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes are used by permission of James R. Osgood & Co., from their copyright editions.
The spirit shrinks from too weighty an encumbrance of letter and form; and the neglect of daily prayer in the home is doubtless partly due to the formalism with which it has been burdened. The trellis is not the vine; much less is it the fruit. Yet the trellis has its value if it serves to lift the vine from the earth into the fresh air and gracious sunlight that shall quicken it to bear more ample and luscious fruit. With its slight framework of ritual, may this book of "Praise and Prayer" help our souls to rise "Daily" into the celestial atmosphere, where the Holy Spirit shall inspire that life more abundantly, the best expression of which is found In richer, sweeter fruits of daily living.
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