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"UNDER THE SHADOW."

UNDER THE SHADOW."

A Daily Text-Book

FOR ALL IN SORROW AND SUFFERING.

COMPILED BY ONE OF THEMSELVES.

THE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

MARIANNE FARNINGHAM.

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide
under the shadow of the Almighty."-PSA. xc, I.

LONDON:

JAMES CLARKE AND CO., 13, FLEET STREET.
HODDER & STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

138. g 471.

INTRODUCTION.

THE verses, of which this little book is composed, have been, as is indicated in the title page, selected by an invalid.

In the summer of 1850, a bright, healthy girl, with all a girl's hopes and happy dreams, and enthusiastic expectations of the future, was smitten with illness-an illness which has continued with almost unbroken severity until this present year (1870). At first it was not supposed that anything incurable had befallen her, but as months and years rolled on, and the disease became more fully developed, hope well-nigh died in the hearts of those who watched her. Nearly the whole of that time has been spent by her in bed, though

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