GEMS FOR THE BRIDAL RING.

GEMS

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.

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

Massachusetts,

GEO. C. RAND & AVERY,

PRINTERS AND STEREOTY PERS.

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.

The sentiments and mottoes are from the “ Lapidarium " of Marbodus, a Latin poem of the eleventh century. That 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.