Excerpt from Prayer and Action: Or the Three Notable Duties
This is a truly delightful book from beginning to end. I hope that as many as possible will read it during the coming Lent.
(1) In the first place it is interesting, which cannot be said of all religious books. It holds the attention throughout. Illustrations, quotations from the poets, apt sayings, come in just where you want them to make the points clear, and carry the reader along. I think many a mother who has prayed in vain (as she thinks) for the life of her child, will be grateful for the quotation from Browning's "Isobel's Child": -
"O Mother, Mother, loose thy prayer!
Christ's name hath made it strong,
It bindeth me, it holdeth me,
With its most loving cruelty,
For floating my new soul along
The happy heavenly air."
She will see that the answer has really come in the best way.
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