Preface A MULTITUDE of friends of “The Optimist's Good Morning" and "The Optimist's Good Night" have asked the compiler for a supplementary volume with the same general plan and purpose. In complying with this request, she has thought it worth. while to repeat in her title the optimistic suggestion, and hopes that in "Sunlit Days" she has succeeded. The God-idea is deeply rooted in the mind of man, and prayer is as deeply rooted in the spiritual instincts. Yet family devotions have largely gone out of fashion; not, however, because men do not need to pray, nor because they have wholly lost the sense of dependence upon divine aid, but rather because of our more complex modern life. The old hour for family devotions has simply been crowded out. But families do still come together at the breakfast table whether they live in country, village, or city. Here, then, is the opportunity to pause for a moment while the family group makes recognition of their divine relationships. Here is where this little book seeks to be of service. It furnishes for each day of the year a brief quotation and a word of prayer. Whether we confess it or not, we are all God's children. To say so is natural, and to seek the Father's aid is rational. To the individual, therefore, the brief service here suggested is as important as to the family group. A pause of three minutes before starting the work of the day will give the spiritual uplift which will enable us to do better work and fight a braver battle. FLORENCE HOBART PERIN. List of Authors of Selections Adams, J. Donald, 215. Allen, Annette, 130. Allerton, Ellen Palmer, 127. Ames, Charles G., 367. Aurin, Emil Carl, 113. Babcock, Maltbie, D. 239. Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 120. Blackie, John Stuart, 387. Brine, Mary D., 53. Bristol, Augusta Cooper, 134. Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 100. Brooks, Phillips, 171, 390. Brotherton, Alice Williams, 99. Brown, Abbie Farwell, 309. Brown, Mary, 66. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 24, 109. Browning, Robert, 101, 148. Bryant, William Cullen, 377. Burr, Amelia Josephine, 149. Burton, Richard, 119, 241, 250, 255, 268, 315, 332, 353. Bushnell, Horace, 38. Butts, Mary F., 246. Campbell, R. J., 371. Channing, William Henry, 161. Choate, Agnes M., 160. Christian Cynosure, 144. Clarke, James Freeman, 135, 319. Clifford, John, 183. Coates, Florence Earle, 11, 16, 274. Colby, Henry W., 124, 162, 179, 213, 282, 342, 345. Collyer, Robert, 18, 36, 52, 65, 84, 163, 244, 311. Congreve, Celia, 242. Converse, Florence, 108. Coolidge, Susan, 314, 357. Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 190. Crosby, Ernest, 240. Cutler, J. S., 296. Cutting, Mary Stewart, 164. Davenport, John Gaylord, 55, 83, 361. Davis, Fannie Stearns, 294. Dickens, Charles, 109, 362. Dickinson, Emily, 87, 301. Dixon, Clarissa, 288. Dodge, Henry Nehemiah, 41, 193, 212, 391. Dole, Nathan Haskell, 131. Doty, Walter G., 67, 197. Dorr, Julia, C. R., 48. Dunbar, Aldis, 71. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 39. Du Maurier, George, 364. Gladden, Washington, 335. Goethe, 171, 173, 175. Green, Joyce Kilmer, 27. Green, Theodore Jackson, 20. Greenwood, Alice D. O., 233. Guest, Edgar A., 143, 295, 317, 326, 347. |