Note to the Third Edition.

I CANNOT let the Third Edition of this book go forth to the world without adding a few words in affectionate remembrance of him who contributed so largely both to the compilation and to the success of the work. The revision of the Second Edition was one of the last labours on which he spent his failing strength. It was his wish that the book should never be changed from its present form; thus in the present edition not a single change will be found, and only one addition, the Litany at page 153.

It was a deep joy to him that the Voices of Comfort' should have been the means of bringing peace and consolation and blessing to so many. Now, those who loved him are mourning yet for the friendship and the counsel and, more than all, for the ready sympathy which can never be replaced for us on earth. But we think of him still as he dwells in the holy rest of Paradise, and we pray that we may meet again at last—

'Where beyond these voices there is peace.'

M. E. T.