A HANDBOOK

то

THE CHRISTIAN YEAR,

For Young People.

BY MRS. STONE,

AUTHOR OF "GOD'S ACRE," "ELLEN MERTON,' ETC.

"Images of holy men,

All doing well their earthly part,
Still yielding freely of their store,

To nerve the limb and cheer the heart:
"Whose peaceful minds are sometimes vexed,
By care, or strife, or sorrow riven,

But as they settle into calm,

Are full of thoughts and hopes of heaven."

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND NEW BOND STREET.

1860.

110.2.331.

Inscribed

ΤΟ

MY SISTER S.

E. S.

PREFACE.

I HAVE ventured, in a very humble way, to write a little book in the hope to interest, as well as instruct the young; and with this view I have made it as undidactic as possible, consistently with due reverence to the subject.

LABORARE EST ORARE-work is worship. Dare I hope that this little book may be thus estimated? ELIZABETH STONE.

BROADSTAIRS,
July, 1860.