A Thousand a Year.
ByMRS. E. M. BRUCE.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY LEE & SHEPARD,
149 Washington Street.
1866.Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by LEE & SHEPARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. J. E. FARWELL & CO. Stereotypers and Printers, 37 Congress Street.
To the
NOBLE BAND OF CHRISTIAN MINISTERS
BY WHOSE SELF-SACRIFICING TOIL AMERICAN
CIVILIZATION IS SO RAPIDLY ADVANCING, AND
TO THEIR PATIENT WIVES,
WHO TOIL UNCEASINGLY WITH BURDENS THAT ARE NEVER
LIFTED, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, BY ONE WHO SEES,
AND WOULD ALLEVIATE THE TRIALS OF
THEIR DISHEARTENING LIFE.
PREFACE.
TO THE PEOPLE.
Love, Money, Fame,—these are the prizes for which men wrestle in the Game of Life. Many fail, and few win, but so the endless rounds are run, and the unchecked friction of the world is kept up.
The author of this little book comes not into the arena as a combatant for any of these prizes. Only the privilege of speaking an earnest word against the wrong; only the opportunity of helping on the car of progress, and lightening the burdens of the weary-hearted, is asked.
How much the plea for justice, which is involved in the story, shall do toward remedying the evil portrayed, is a question which lies with the reader alone.
TO MINISTERS.
That you hold to a profession—the poorest paid of them all—and continue in your arduous work, under page: 6-7[View Page 6-7] difficulties, that would conquer less earnest men, gives you a claim to the highest respect of the world.
That you walk, bearing heavy burdens, over the shining mountain of life, and go down into the valley of age without a competence; many of you, like your Master, without where to lay your head; gives you a claim to Heaven's benediction, and to the reward which waiteth in the "Morning Land" for those who suffered here and continued faithful to the end.
