FROM

LIFE'S HARVEST FIELD.

BY

T. S. ARTHUR.

BOSTON:

L. P. CROWN & CO., 61 CORNHILL.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. W. BRADLEY, 48 NORTH FOURTH ST.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

J. W. BRADLEY,

In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE title of our book needs but a word of explanation. Golden Grains from Life's Harvest Field, what are they but good and true principles, pure affections and human sympathies, gathered by the mind as it passes through its fields of labor? These are, indeed, golden grains, full of the soul's nutrition. A handful or two have we shaken from the full ears, and now present them to our readers. May the offering bear with it strength to the weak and the tempted, comfort to those who are in affliction, and good impulses to l.

With this brief introduction, we scatter a few "golden grains," gathered on our way through life, over other hearts, believing that many of them will fall upon good ground, and yield fruit in their season.