Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
Daisy Meads and John Davis lay senseless, side by side,
upon the half-made hay. Frontispiece.
DAISY OF "OLD MEADOW."
BY
AGNES GIBERNE,
AUTHOR OF
"OLD UMBRELLAS;" "SUN, MOON, AND STARS;" "ST. AUSTIN'S LODGE;"
"BERYL AND PEARL;" ETC.
"If I have made gold my hope . . . this also were an iniquity
to be punished."—JOB xxxi.
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth."—MATT. vi.
LONDON
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PREFACE.
THE following pages are issued with two objects:—
First; they may be used for daily meditation on rising or retiring to rest, in the quiet chamber, when none but God is near.
Secondly; for short services in sick chambers, or for invalids. Many a child of God suffers from infirmities of such a nature that none but a very short service can be borne. This may be carried out by reading the whole chapter, or a portion of it, from which the text is taken; then the address, and the poem. This may be preceded or followed by a short prayer, thus compressing the entire service within ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.
I am aware of the many and great deficiencies which mark these addresses. But they have been issued with one desire and one aim—to glorify Jesus. May He thus use them, by His Holy Spirit, for this end is my earnest prayer!
ST. MARY'S, HASTINGS,
October, 1885.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I. THE WIDOW'S OPINIONS
II. STRUCK
III. DAISY'S NEEDS
IV. AN UNTIDY HOME
V. A DANGER ESCAPED
VI. TWO NURSES
VII. PAST DAYS
VIII. GOLD
IX. OLD ISAAC
X. DAISY'S WISH
XI. A RICE PUDDING
XII. DAISY'S TROUBLE
XIII. GONE
XIV. A MOTHER'S WORK
XV. SORRY AND GLAD
XVI. ISAAC'S LOSS
XVII. MONEY AGAIN
XVIII. OUT OF DANGER