The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing

· 1880

One of the discourses in this volume--"The Mission of Little Children"--was written just after the death of a dear son, and was published in pamphlet form. The edition having become exhausted sooner than the demand, it was deemed advisable to reprint it; and accordingly it is now presented to the reader, accompanied by others of a similar cast, most of them growing out of the same experience. This fact will account for any repetition of sentiment which may appear in these discourses, especially as they were written without any reference to one another. To the sorrowing, then, this little volume is tendered, with the author's sympathy and affection. Upon its pages he has poured out some of t…

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