FOR THE BRIDAL RING. A GIFT FOR THE PLIGHTED AND The Wedded. COMPILED BY REV. J. E. RANKIN. "What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” BOSTON: W. J. HOLLAND & CO. M. H. SARGENT, 13 CORNHILL. DUP. EACH 10JULY 1 WISC. HIST. SOC. THE NEW YORK 148294 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. Entered; according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by MOSES H. SARGENT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS. COMPILER'S NOTE. THIS little book is designed less as a manual of good counsel for the plighted or the newly-wedded pair than to furnish appropriate selections for their reading, and a marriage keepsake for their happy home. That The sentiments and mottoes are from the "Lapidarium" of Marbodus, a Latin poem of the eleventh century. some of them should be a little fanciful might be expected of that period. The grouping, it will be remembered, is not for the literal, but the figurative, bridalring. J. E. R. |