Preface

SECOND EDITION,
LONDON: H. R. ALLENSON, LIMITED,
RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.

THIS LITTLE BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
TO MY WIFE.
I HAVE looked out “Through Study Windows” upon the world as I see it and remember it and believe it to be, in order to find something to say to boys and girls about our Father in Heaven, and the life which we all ought to live as His children.
These windows give me a view of a stony road, the topmost branches of the trees of Bold Venture Park, a hillside made up of many fields, with here and there a lonely farmstead, and, upon the summit of the hill, twelve hundred feet above the level of the sea, the Tower which celebrates the loyalty of the people of Darwen to the Throne. That Tower constitutes a landmark, which is visible for I know not how many miles around. From its top one gets the widest possible view of far-stretching moorland, hills and woods and valleys, and industrial towns buried under the smoke of their tall chimneys; and, on fine days, I have seen the hill country of Westmoreland and Cumberland, the mountains of Wales, the waves of the Irish Sea rolling in upon the shores of Morecambe Bay, and the ships plying to and from the docks of Preston upon the waters of the Estuary of the Ribble.