Preface to the Northfield Edition

In issuing this new and beautiful edition of “The Shepherd Psalm,” my publishers ask me to write a few additional prefatory words. I do so with the greater pleasure as its issue affords me the opportunity of greeting my many readers across the Atlantic.

Among the happiest reminiscences of my life are the visits already paid to America; among the pleasantest anticipations, the hope of again ministering to God’s children there. And it is good to know that, in whatever country we are found, under whatever sky, we are, through faith in the divine Saviour, members in the same body, sheep in the same flock, children of the one home. In this sense, already there is “no more sea.”

This little treatise has been specially 5 used of God to comfort and help multitudes, largely, as I believe, because it lays so much stress on what the living Saviour is prepared to be to tose who know His voice and follow HimT^^^K There is too great a tendency among us to introspection, the minute scrutiny of motive and emotion, the effort at self-mortification and self-adjustment. In this there is great peril and much discouragement. It is happier and better far to look away from ourselves to Him on whom, as the divinely constituted Shepherd, the entire responsibility rests of bringing the weakest and most erring of the flock through the perils of this mortal life to the land where there is neither drought, nor thirst, nor overshadowed gorge.

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Christ Church,

Westminster Bridge Road, London

October i, 1895. *.-,<*- =