Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye
New York: Eaton & Mains
Copyright, 1900, by
The Western Methodist Book Concern
_To think some one will care to listen to us, and to believe we do not
speak to vacant air but to listening hearts, is always sweet. That
friends have listened to this author's spoken and written words with
apparent gladness emboldens him to believe they will give him hearing
once again._
_May some one's eyes be lightened, some one's burden be lifted from his
shoulders for an hour of rest, some one's landscape grow larger,
fairer, and more fruitful, because these essays have been written._