OR, Portraitures of Hebrew Character. BY MARIA T. RICHARDS, AUTHOR OF LIFE IN JUDEA." NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN AND COMPANY. CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by In the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of New York. LITHOTYPED BY THE AMERICAN STEREOTYPE COMPANY, PHENIX BUILDING, BOSTON. To My Husband, WHOSE SYMPATHY AND ENCOURAGEMENT HAVE BEEN MY GREATEST INCENTIVE TO EXERTION IN THE PREPARATION OF THE FOLLOWING PAGES, They are affectionately Enscribed, IN A SPIRIT OF EARNEST CONSECRATION TO THE Holy Scriptures: BY WHOSE TEACHINGS THEY WERE FIRST SUGgested, AND TO WHOSE STUDY THEY WOULD FAIN GUIDE; WHOSE INIMITABLE SCENES THEY HUMBLY SEEK TO UNFOLD, AND BY WHOSE PROPHETIC LIGHT THEY WOULD REVERENTLY POINT Unto Him, WHO IS THE ROOT AND OFFSPRING OF DAVID, AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR." |