THE YOKE AND BURDEN.
NEW YORK:
UNITED STATES PUBLISHING COMPANY,
411 BROOME STREET.
1869.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by I. REMSEN BLAUVELT, In the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. THE TROW & SMITH BOOK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 46, 48, 50 GREENE ST., N. Y.
TO
THE FAIR MAIDENS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY,
THIS BOOK
IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED
BY THEIR FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.
The design of this simple story is to call your attention to that close living, of which a mere profession is but the semblance. That this, which is more than seeming—this of which the world knows nothing—can be attained by all the converted, is inferred from many passages of Scripture, among which are the sweet "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden," also, "Take my yoke upon you." So there must be a taking and toiling amid all the compensations of the way. And if, in perusing this book, woven out of old memories of loved ones gone before—aside from the whiling of a tedious moment—your heart should be drawn to the higher life, if you should learn where to cast down your sorrows, if you should be led to truer reflections, then the task of writing it will make glad the heart of
THE AUTHOR.
SPRING VALLEY, N. Y. November, 1868.