Pious Guide-Posts.
Reading edition
In olden times the guide-posts not only pointed out the road, but furnished texts and maxims upon which to meditate. The following inscriptions were upon guide-posts in Devonshire, England:—
To Woodbury, Topsham, Exeter.— Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
To Brixton, Ottery, Honiton.— O hold up our goings in thy paths, that our footsteps slip not.
To Otterton, Sidmouth, A. D. 1743.— O that our ways were made to direct, that we might keep thy statutes.
To Budleigh.— Make us to go in the paths of thy commandments, for therein is our desire.