Excerpt from Light for the Days, or Heavenly Thoughts for Earthly Guidance: A Daily Monitor The advantages of this mode of devotional reading are great More knowledge, says good old John Owen, is ordinarily diffused, especially among the young, by one hour's catechetical exercise than by many hours of continued direct discourse. And a large part of the teachings of Socrates was by ques tions, drawing forth in their answers the thought of his disciples. And so in the Bible, and especially in the teachings of our Saviour, we are constantly met by questions, such as, Adam, where art What does't thou here Elijah? The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? What! Could ye not watch with me one hour? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.