Excerpt from Voices of the Day
This volume is intended to be the companion of "The Voices of the Night," a work with which the reader is not improbably acquainted. The last of the series, " Voices of the Dead," when published, will complete my design.
The "Voices of the Night" relate more immediately to the present ; the "Voices of the Day," more directly to the future. Both volumes are designed - the one by what it sounds during the night that now is, and the other by what it imports from the day that soon will be - to cheer, and comfort, and sustain the people of God. The Voices of the Night are heard by the ear of faith ringing clear, though very plaintive, from all things around, above and below, ever instructive- ever consolatory, even in their sadness - ever saying or implying, "This is not your rest." These Voices come from the stars of the sky, the winds, and waves, and thunder, and are audible in the very flowers,
"Those matin worshippers, who, bending lowly,
Before the rising sun, God's lidless eye,
Send from their chalices a sweet and holy
Incense up on high:
Neat cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth,
And tolls its perfume on the passing air,
Makes Sabbath in the fields, and over ringeth
A call to prayer."
But in all these cases their harmony is to be found in the word of God. The Voices of the Day are only echoes, often diverted and broken, yet never entirely spent in their transit from the future into the present.
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