Pen Pictures

The stories and sketches composing "Pen Pictures" I have written as I did ''Pastoral Sketches" and "A Journey to Palestine," with a view to interest, while benefiting the head and heart of the reader. In my judgment it is my best literary work. At the same time there is scarcely a chapter but has a moral or religious point, and so presented as to abide in the memory and affect the life. Flashlight revelations of character, the law of con- science, the power of human influence, kindness to a...