SECOND EDITION,
LONDON: H. R. ALLENSON, LIMITED,
RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.
THIS LITTLE BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
TO MY WIFE.
I HAVE looked out “Through Study Windows” upon the world as I see it and remember it and believe it to be, in order to find something to say to boys and girls about our Father in Heaven, and the life which we all ought to live as His children.
These windows give me a view of a stony road, the topmost branches of the trees of Bold Venture Park, a hillside made up of many fields, with here and there a lonely farmstead, and, upon the summit of the hill, twelve hundred feet above the level of the sea, the Tower which celebrates the loyalty of the people of Darwen to the Throne. That Tower constitutes a landmark, which is visible for I know not how many miles around. From its top one gets the widest possible view of far-stretching moorland, hills and woods and valleys, and industrial towns buried under the smoke of their tall chimneys; and, on fine days, I have seen the hill country of Westmoreland and Cumberland, the mountains of Wales, the waves of the Irish Sea rolling in upon the shores of Morecambe Bay, and the ships plying to and from the docks of Preston upon the waters of the Estuary of the Ribble.
As I have looked out of my windows, memory has come to my aid, and I have recovered scenes from other lands, stories from the Bible and other books, and things which have interested me in other places where I have lived. When I see the Table of Contents, I am astonished at the strange and unreasonable medley of subjects, but my only excuse is that I have put them down just as I happened to think of them. At least they all illustrate one great theme—that wondrous Life to which an ancient poet pointed when he said, “God is my High Tower.”
And my hope is that some who read these Addresses may be able to see “Through Study Windows” right up to that Tower.
UPLANDS, DARWEN.
JUNE, 1912.