in the heart, to be surrendered. "To the word and to the testimony," say they; "if a man speak not according to these, it is because he has no light in him.”
The book has been written under circumstances of deep anxiety and much domestic solicitude. Whilst the MS. was in progress, a precious child, of fifteen years of age, was called away to her everlasting rest. Both prior and subsequently to her death, the author was intensely anxious about the issue of the severe illness of three other beloved children. Within these pages, therefore, the writer was enabled, with some degree of hopeful relief, to pour out the anguish of his heart before the Lord, in immediate connexion with the lessons taught by Bible lives.
That the truths here embodied, and the lessons suggested by Bible lives, may be savingly inculcated upon many a reader's mind, is the author's ardent prayer. In these last days, may this humble volume be a simple means, in the hand of God, of leading precious souls, not only to "read, mark, learn," but also to "inwardly digest" the blessed