he "felt the stirrings of his musical gift." And then,
under the inspiration of his wife, he entered upon the study of musical
science, and laid the basis of his immortal "hymns," now sung around the
world. In 1864 he removed to Chicago, where his musical talent and
Christian character soon placed him in charge of the choir and Sunday
School of the First Congregational Church, and where he made the
acquaintance of D. W. Whittle, with whom, for the last five years of his
life he labored in the great Gospel work. Deep spirituality and
persuasiveness pervade all of Mr. Bliss' musical compositions. It is
doubtful if the world ever heard sweeter hymns. Had he lived longer we
should have heard more, but God, who raised him up for the work, called
him:

For those who sleep,
And those who weep,
Above the portals narrow
The mansions rise
Beyond the skies--
We're going home to-morrow.

[Illustration: Portrait of P. P. BLISS]

CONTENTS.

A

A Blind Man Preaches to 3,000,000 People
A Boy's Mistake--A Sad Reconciliation
A Business Man Confessing Christ
A Child at Its Mother's Grave
A Child Looking for its Lost Mother
A Child's Prayer Answered
A Child Visits Abraham Lincoln and Saves the Life of a Condemned Soldier
A Commercial Traveler
A Day of Decision
A Defaulter's Confession
A Distiller Interrogates Moody
A Dream
A Dying Infidel's Confession
A Father's Love for his Boy
A Father's Love Trampled under Foot
A Father's Mistake
Affection
Affliction
A Good Excuse
A Heavy Draw on Alexander the Great
A Little Boy Converts his Mother
A Little Boy's Experience
A Little Child Converts an Infidel
All Right or All Wrong
A London Doctor Saved after Fifty Years of Prayer
A Long Ladder Tumbles to the Ground
Always Happy
A Man Drinks up a Farm
A Man who Would not Speak to his Wife
A Mother Dies that her Boy May Live
A Mother's Mistake
An Emperor Sets Forty Million Slaves Free
Angry at First--Saved at Last
An Infidel who would not Talk Infidelity before his Daughter
An Irishman Leaps into the Life-boat
A Remarkable Case
A Rich Father Visits his Dying Prodigal
Son in a Garret and Forgives him
Arthur P. Oxley! Your Mother Wishes to See You
A Rumseller's Son Blows his Brains Out
A Sad and Singular Story
Assurance
A Story Moody Never Will Forget
A Voice from the Tomb
A Wife's Faith
A Zealous Young Lady

B

Believe
Bible Study
Black-Balled by Man--Saved by Christ
Blind
Broken Heart