THE ROSE OF SHARON: A RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR, FOR M DCCC XLII. EDITED BY MISS SARAH C. EDGARTON. BOSTON: A. TOMPKINS AND B. B. MUSSEY, 1842. KD 55922 (1842) Harvard College Library Jul. 11, 1916 Gift of Prof. John S. Pay. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of CAMBRIDGE: FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON. PREFACE. OUR little messenger has made itself so many friends in its unobtrusive visits to the fireside and home-circle, that it is scarcely necessary at this day to send it abroad with letters of introduction, or a chart of character. As a lowly minister of spiritual Christianity, it will be received with kindness by the young, and with affection by the aged; to the former a gentle counsellor, to the latter a simple token of respect, and of earnest desire for their happiness. In the arrangement of this third volume of the "ROSE," we have had before us the difficult task of selection. Probably in some cases we may have erred in our choice; but we have aimed to be less guid ed by taste than by judgment, less by mere literary fancies, than by a respect for the differing tastes of readers. We cannot forbear at this time to express our regret at the necessary delay of several articles, which would have done great honor to our annual. We are particularly disappointed that we cannot, in this volume, introduce a new contributor to our readers-Miss L. M. Barker, a lady whose talents and worth are yet to be fully estimated. Owing to its late reception, and its length, her article is unavoidably, and on our part reluctantly, deferred till another year. And now may Heaven smile upon, and bless our work; bless those who have contributed so generously to its interest and usefulness; bless all who are instrumental to its success; and doubly bless, if any such there be, and according to their need, those who are enemies to its progress, and vilifiers of its name. Boston, August 1st. |