L'ENVOI.

UNFORBIDDEN FRUIT.

'Then Evangelist reached unto him a hand, wherein were some leaves from the tree of life.'

Come hither, friends, and eat!

Behold, this fruit is fair unto the eye,
To taste, to scent alike it is most sweet,
Take, then ye shall not die.

It grew upon a tree

That grows beside a blissful stream full-fed
From out the Rock that flows continually;

Its leaves are never shed.

Its fruitage, c'en its leaf,

Is healing to the nations, strife, and smart,
Is healing unto each that knows the grief
And plague of his own heart.

22d May 1875.

OF SUMMER FRUIT

DEDICATED TO THE AMERICAN EVANGELISTS

WHO LATELY VISITED ENGLAND

BY DORA GREENWELL

'All things ripen, and righteousness also.'-TERTULLIAN.

ON FAITH AS THE ROOT-PRINCIPLE OF OUR

LIFE IN CHRIST,

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MADAME GUYON ON THE BLESSEDNESS RE-

SULTING FROM ENTIRE CONFORMITY WITH

THE DIVINE WILL,

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ON THE EXCELLENCE OF THE COMMON

THINGS BELONGING TO CHRIST'S KING-

DOM OF GRACE,

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ON THE BLESSEDNESS OF SPIRITUAL AC-

QUAINTANCE WITH GOD, .

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ON THE BLESSEDNESS RESULTING FROM

INTIMATE COMMUNION WITH GOD, .

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ON THE JOY EXPERIENCED BY CERTAIN

BELIEVERS IN THE NEAR APPROACH OF

DEATH,

A MIDNIGHT DAWN,

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