Excerpt from The String of Pearls: Thirty Poems on Bible Truth
In writing this book of poems it has not been my aim to carry my reader away in fairy fancies, to be only charmed for a while, and then left entirely unbenefited. But my object. Has been to place before the reader something interesting, instructive and beneficial to the heart, mind and soul; and to do this I have had to reach higher for my themes than the literature of earth (man's wisdom), and go to the inspired word - the Bible - the book of books, which reaches back to the dawn of man's existence, and stretches forward through the dim mist. Of the future to the hidden mysteries. I have gathered pearls of truth from this great book and set them in the gilded frame of rhyme, and hang them up before you in the bright light of reality, that you may see and admire, and receive thoughts and impressions as pure and as valuable as diamonds, to benefit you in this life and through the.
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