Synopses & Reviews
I have chosen those passages which seem to have the greatest beauty and spiritual appeal, leaving it to the reader to enter on his own account into a more intensive study of that religion which interests him most... I hope it may lead others to compile Bibles of their own to supply the lack which may be felt in this: for it is a great pleasure to commune with the great ones of heaven and earth, and why should we deny ourselves this delight? -- from the Preface