Nine Days — Author Unknown

The Religious Souvenir, no longer as a stranger, but as an assured guest, enters those halls where it has so often shared the smile of the fairest, and the regard of the best. It would faithfully avail itself of this privilege, and be a sunbeam to the brow of sadness, or ^ " still small voice," breaking the dream of vanity. Readers and fiiends, allow it, in its varied commu- nion, to awaken serious and salutary thought, to allure to goodness by high and holy example, to deepen self- knowledge, to confirm Christian faith, and so cheer it with the hope, that this, its seventh visit, may be num- bered among the blessed memories of a better land.