It is not pretended that words can reach the sublimity of religious feeling; yet, certainly, those persons err who suppose that cultivated taste, high powers of expression, and lofty flights of the imagination, are at variance with the spirit of religion. The present unpretending little Volume is the result of no inconsiderable labour, in order to render it interesting and valuable to the reader, and more especially to the youthful reader; and though it will afford much pleasure for the fancy, yet sufficient inducement will be found to engage the heart, and indeed the whole of the faculties. The selection has been made from the works of the most intelligent and judicious Christian |