WRITTEN FOR THE CLOSET, BY WM. B. TAPPAN. And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. Luke vi. 12. All night in prayer, while mortals slept, Of sighs and tears, my soul! for thee. Night spread her starry wing around He prayed-yet not in view of all But sight of sin, and sin's desert, Prest down his soul; and sight of men, Oh, Saviour in Judea, prayer Not now is breathed from lips of thine: Its clefts reveal the Moslem's shrine. Yet thou art here!-this closet folds All night in prayer!-my joyful sense BEING AN AID TO PRIVATE DEVOTION. CONTAINING Directions and Helps FOR READING THE SCRIPTURES, MEDITATION, SELF-EXAMINATION, AND PRAYER. BY HARVEY NEWCOMB, BOSTON: JAMES B. DOW. 1841. (977) Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1838, BY JAMES B. DOW, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Mass. BOSTON: WM. A. HALL AND CO. PRINTERS. Preface. THE author feels great diffidence in offering this little work to the Christian public; as the BIBLE must be, and remain, the chief companion for the closet; yet, having himself felt the need of something of this kind, he ventures to publish this for the benefit of those who may have similar wants. |