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Title: The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus
A Sunday book for the young

Author: John Ross Macduff

Release Date: May 13, 2008 [EBook #25459]

Language: English

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THE CITIES OF REFUGE.

[Illustration: The Man-Slayer]

THE CITIES OF REFUGE:

OR,

The Name of Jesus.

A SUNDAY BOOK FOR THE YOUNG.

BY

REV. JOHN R. MACDUFF, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF "MORNING AND NIGHT WATCHES," "MEMORIES OF
BETHANY," "MIND AND WORDS OF JESUS," ETC., ETC.

"How sweet the NAME of Jesus sounds
in a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
and drives away his fear."

NEW YORK:
ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,
No. 530 BROADWAY.

1865.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,

This little book contains, with a few additions, the substance of what
was spoken one Sabbath to a number of hearers of your own age. It may
serve to recall to those that listened to it, and to unfold to those who
did not, some simple and well-known, but precious gospel truths.

May He whose NAME it is designed to exalt, bless you in reading it, and
enable you from the heart to repeat as your own happy experience, the
well-known verse of the beautiful hymn I have put on the title-page.

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel and say unto them, When ye be come over
Jordan into the land of Canaan; then ye shall appoint you
cities to be cities of refuge for you."--NUM. xxxv. 9-11.

I.

When travelling lately through the Simplon--one of the great Alpine
passes leading from Switzerland into Italy--I observed, close by the
roadside, at regular distances, a number of plain, square buildings. On
these (sometimes over the doorway, sometimes on the side) were inscribed