Pious Guide-Posts
In olden times the guide-posts not only pointed out the road, but furnished texts and maxims upon which to meditate. The following inscriptions were upon guide-posts in Devonshire, England:—
Hand pointingTo Woodbury, Topsham, Exeter.— Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Hand pointingTo Brixton, Ottery, Honiton.— O hold up our goings in thy paths, that our footsteps slip not.
Hand pointingTo Otterton, Sidmouth, A. D. 1743.— O that our ways were made to direct, that we might keep thy statutes.
Hand pointingTo Budleigh.— Make us to go in the paths of thy commandments, for therein is our desire.