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PREFACE

THE subject of this book entitles it to a high place among illustrated volumes. The execution, literary and artistic, will, we are confident, be found worthy of the theme; since we have received the assistance of authors best known in the sacred literature of our country, in presenting, in their various important attitudes and relations, the WOMEN OF THE SCRIPTURES. The contents of the volume were prepared expressly for it, with the exception of the pages from the pen of Mrs. Balfour; and for the republication of her articles, no one who reads them will require an apology. The designs for the engravings are original; and the Publishers trust that in the present volume they have made their best acknowledgment for the favour with which its predecessors have been received. The whole, they believe, will be found no inapt memento of those to whom St. Peter refers the sex for an ensample: holy women, in the old time."

"the

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THE SON OF MARY

BIDS US

"SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES:"

TO THE

WOMEN OF AMERICA,

THESE

SCRIPTURE PORTRAITS OF WOMAN,

Are Respectfully Enscribed.

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