Chapter I: 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.

I am aware of the many and great deficiencies which mark these addresses. But they have been issued with one desire and one aim—to glorify Jesus. May He thus use them, by His Holy Spirit, for this end is my earnest prayer!

ST. MARY'S, HASTINGS,
October, 1885.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. THE WIDOW'S OPINIONS

II. STRUCK

III. DAISY'S NEEDS

IV. AN UNTIDY HOME

V. A DANGER ESCAPED

VI. TWO NURSES

VII. PAST DAYS

VIII. GOLD

IX. OLD ISAAC

X. DAISY'S WISH

XI. A RICE PUDDING

XII. DAISY'S TROUBLE

XIII. GONE

XIV. A MOTHER'S WORK

XV. SORRY AND GLAD

XVI. ISAAC'S LOSS

XVII. MONEY AGAIN

XVIII. OUT OF DANGER

DAISY OF "OLD MEADOW."