LIFE THOUGHTS FROM PULPITS AND FROM POETS. SELECTED BY ALFRED I. HOLMES. A SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS OF EMINENT · BROOKLYN, N. Y.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, A. I. HOLMES, 180 NASSAU STREET. 1871. KD 1304 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY SHELDON FUND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by REV. ALFRED I. HOLMES, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Stereotyped at THE WOMEN'S PRINTING HOUSE, Eighth Street and Avenue A, New York. PREFACE. HO that is a lover of art would not be WHO pleased to visit a gallery, where he could see displayed beautiful statuary, from the hands of eminent sculptors, or behold beautiful paintings from the most renowned masters of the art; or who, being a lover of flowers, would not prize à walk through some magnificent garden, where there is every variety and profusion of fruits and flowers, which have been cultured and arranged by eminent gardeners. Now, what gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in nature, we believe these gems of thought, culled from the religious literary world, to be to the lover of religious literature. The reader, as he peruses these pages, will recognize many illustrious names, standing out as (iii) |