INTRODUCTION. 



/ 7* VER Y heart has its anniversary days. It keeps 

 * so/ne of t/iein in the company of its friends, but 

 many of them it keeps in its secret c/iaiber alone, 

 save perhaps for the companionship of tears. Hut 

 tears are the handmaidens of Joy as well as of Sor 

 row, and are often delightful companions. It is these 

 unacknowledged anniversaries that are here commem 

 orated. 



Hut these anniversary Memories are more than 

 merely commemorative ; tliey lead the heart upward, 

 step by step, through the various phases of human af 

 fection, from its delicious awakening, its tender 

 avowal, its chastening farewell, its trusting &quot;/ 

 wait,&quot; to heights of spiritual experience, from whose 

 summits the spiritual sense looks over into the prom 

 ised land of God s hme, and perceives that Love is the 

 all of life and God. 



These fragrant memories are Xature s lullabies, 

 with which she smoothes her children s restless pil 

 lows, and sends them smiling to their final sleep. Hut 

 they take flight at the noise and bustle of t It is work-a- 

 day world, and are reluctant to return, for all the 

 heart s enticement. 



It is the purpose of this little volume to prepare for 

 these heart memories an abiding place, to which it 

 may charm them back, a&amp;gt;id, perchance, betray them 

 to captivity . 



