Counsel and Comfort

Excerpt from Counsel and Comfort: Spoken From a City Pulpit Come, my friend, and let us walk backwards and forwards along this gravelled path, already beaten by my solitary feet for an hour past. It is not a carriage-drive, but a path intended for saunterers on foot. It is broad enough for two, and the more especially if one of them, through the force of circumstances, chances to take up no space. And to-day you are at Constantinople, and I am here. I am not quite sure as to the precise number of miles between us, but there are many hundreds, I know. You know this place well, and you would like this walk. On one hand, there is a level plot of closely-mown grass, of what may be esteemed considerable extent by a man of moderate ideas. And the prominent object on that side is a pretty Gothic house, built of red sandstone, set upon a green terrace. The house is backed by a wooded cliff: a cliff wooded from base to summit About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.