NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION. I could not THE following collection of passages from the Holy Scriptures has been put into my hands by the compiler to carry through the press. but gladly avail myself of the opportunity, which a friend thus presented to me, of having a share, however small, in a work directed, in so pious a spirit, towards the promotion among Catholics of an habitual reverent meditation upon the sacred words of Him who spake as "man never did speak." J. H. N. 1860. |