Hours of Devotion

Excerpt from Hours of Devotion

The following pages have been translated with the view to interest and instruct the American reader, more than for the purpose of spreading before the public a literal translation of the original. Some passages have occasionally been omitted on account of their idiomatical obscurity; - others because it was thought they contained but little interesting to the American public. In some instances, also, when the text appeared to be unnecessarily diffuse, it has been abbreviated, while at the same time great care has been taken to preserve the full meaning and spirit of the author.

The intelligent reader need scarcely be informed that there is, in many respects, a wide difference between the manners,and customs of Germany and America; and that these tend in a great degree to embarrass the translation of a work that was written solely for the moral and religious improvement of the former and its adaptation to the views, feelings, and circumstances of the latter. Under these circumstances it has been a particular desire, in the selection which compose the present volume, to choose such subjects as more particularly condemn the vices and immoralities, which, in a greater or less degree, our national and individual character partakes. With what success this task has been accomplished, it is for the public to judge.

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