ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. THE Compiler remembers in her work, with pleasure, the interest and sympathy of many, authors, publishers, those engaged in post-office mission service, - and of some who have gathered the ripe fruits of suffering: she acknowledges, with others, courtesies extended by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. for selections from Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Sill, Mrs. Whitney, Alice Cary, Lucy Larcom, Nora Perry, and others; by Roberts Brothers, from Drs. Hedge and Allen, and Messrs. Hosmer, Gannett, Chadwick, Mrs. Jackson, Susan Coolidge, and others; by George H. Ellis, from Messrs. Savage, Merriam, and others; by Charles H. Kerr & Co., from Messrs. Blake, Gannett, Jones, and Mrs. Marean; by the Universalist Publishing House, from Dr. Chapin, and from "Voices of the Faith;" by Dr. J. Straub, from Dr. H. W. Thomas; by Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, from Dr. H. W. Beecher in "Comforting Thoughts;" by Charles Scribner's Sons, from Dr. J. G. Holland; by James Pott & Co., from Ugo Bassi; by Lee and Shepard, from Dr. Collyer; by Macmillan & Co., from Mr. Winter; by D. Appleton & Co., from Mr. Bryant : and not least she acknowledges in the undertaking the sympathy and ever ready help of her husband, to whose judgment in selecting and especially in arranging these Leaves she is greatly indebted. BROOKLYN, CONN, March, 1892. LEAVES OF HEALING. LIFE'S VICTORIES. THANKS be to God who giveth us the victory! I COR. xv. 57. He hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. - HOSEA vi. I, 2. WHAT shall we call the real things, by and by, WHAT when the vision shall have had divine anointing, when we shall name things right?. - our little victories, our successes, our joys which were hardly large enough to be consecrated; the lessons from which at first we shrank and called them sorrows, or even calamities, but which carried us along toward larger fellowship and quicker contact with the things that abide? I know not; but this I know, that deepening |