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Title: Gathering Jewels
The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.

Author: James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles

Editor: Duncan McNeill Young

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GATHERING JEWELS.

JAMES KNOWLES.

[Illustration: THE LITTLE ORPHAN'S PRAYER
When only eight years old and left an orphan, at her father's death,
she went to the corner of the house and asked God to be a father and a
mother to her--Page 85]

GATHERING JEWELS;

Or,

The Secret of a Beautiful Life.

In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles.

Selected from Their Diaries.

"They shall be Mine in that day when I come to make up My Jewels."

Edited by Rev. Duncan Mcneill Young.

New York:
William Knowles,
104 East Thirteenth Street.
1887.

Copyright, 1887.
By Wm. Knowles

PREFACE.

The present volume is a purely pastoral attempt, emanating from a
fraternal affection for two of God's honored saints, and an
increasingly growing desire for the glory of God in the salvation of
souls.

In presenting the following pages to the friends, acquaintances, and
co-laborers of our departed brother and sister I desire to record my
appreciation of the good achieved by two whose example among us was as
beneficial as that of the angel at the pool of Siloam, stirring up the
sluggish waters to fresh life and utility, and teaching us that

Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above