Solitude Sweetened

A good friend of mine recently gave me a book. The title is "Solitude Sweetened". The author is a man named James Meikle. This book contains meditations and devotions he wrote while serving as a surgeon in the Royal Navy on a warship from 1757 -1760. The copy I received was published in 1818. As this book is out of print, very hard to find, and all the copies I have found seem to be published from 1814 to 1850, I feel it's safe to assume that the copyrights have expired. I will be posting various parts as I feel they would be most beneficial to others to read and gain strength from. The first one follows......