RECTOR OF HAMBLEDEN, BUCKS; LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD

AUTHOR OF

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HOLY COMMUNION," SERMONS IN PLAIN LANGUAGE," ETC.

St. Luke and St. John

RIVINGTONS

London, Orford, and Cambridge

TO THE MUCH BELOVED

ELDER SISTER OF MY WIFE

AT WHOSE INSTANCE IT WAS UNDERTAKEN

This little Work is Dedicated

IN TOKEN OF DEEP AFFECTION, HIGH ESTEEM

AND CONTINUED SYMPATHY.

W. H. R.

PREFACE

THESE pages pretend to nothing more than to

be a help to those heads of families who may

wish to give a few words of explanation and practical instruction to their children and servants, and who do not feel able to expound Scripture for themselves. The passage for each day is made short, in the hope that attention may be kept up while it is in reading. It surely is a mistake to try to occupy servants and young children for more than a very few minutes each day, especially when the one have been interrupted in their work, and the others are often anxious for their breakfast.

If this Part, and that published at the same time with it on Genesis and Exodus, meet with a favourable reception, other Parts will follow, on the two remaining Gospels and other books of Holy Scripture.