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AMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED BY

OTHER SCRIPTURES.

BY THE LATE

MISS SUSAN ALLIBONE.

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As when long ago David played with his harp "Saul was refreshed
and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him," even so it is now.
The harp of David still sounds: composing many an agitated heart;
opening many a sullen mind to better feelings, and dispossessing many
an evil spirit.

SECOND EDITION.

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AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.

No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object.

BRIEF NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.

THE traveller in Eastern lands regards. with peculiar interest the well at which preceding adventurers have drank; the tree or rock beneath whose shade they have reclined, or the spot where they have suf fered exposure or disasters.

In the pilgrimage of life, there is something quite analogous to this. We love to know what sources of strength and refreshment have been accessible to those who have gone before us, to linger around the place of their conflicts and triumphs, and to

gaze upon the monuments of their fidelity and constancy. If we can find a book which they have marked, or if we recognise a favourite hymn of their's, or if we have access to the room to which they have been accustomed to resort for meditation and devotion, how naturally and strongly are our religious sympathies awakened thereby!

The diminutive volume the reader has now in hand possesses no inconsiderable measure of the interest to which we allude. It is simply a transcript from the Bible. The one hundred and nineteenth Psalm suggests the topics of meditation, and parallel or illustrative texts are selected from various parts of the sacred volume, to impress and enforce them.

This useful and delightful task was

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self-imposed by the late Miss Susan Allibone, a lady of such rare attainments in the Christian life, and especially of such exemplary submission to the will of God through a long period of weakness and suffering, that we cannot but regard with a sort of reverence such a memento of her spiritual taste and judgment.

To encourage that most laudable and edifying practice of committing Scripture to memory, it may be mentioned that the portions of sacred truth which are cited in the following pages were brought from the storehouse of the author's memory, without the aid of a concordance or parallel text-book. Her recollection of the words, as well as of the chapter and verse, was verified by others, and was rarely found at fault. Such a thorough

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