Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from There Is a River: A Popular Illustrated Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society for Year 1905-6
When Pindar called water the best of things, the old Greek poet had a glimpse of the same idea which our English angler expressed in his own quaint phrasing. The water, wrote Izaak Walton, is the eldest daughter of the creation, the element upon which the Spirit of God did first move, the element which God commanded to bring forth living creatures abundantly. The water is more productive than the earth. Nay, the earth hath no fruitfulness without showers or dews for all the herbs, and ?owers, and fruit, are produced and thrive by the water. I This elemental gift of God reaches man variously, now dropping down from the bosom of the clouds, now welling up from a cleft in the rocks. But when we distinguish water in the mountain torrent or the stagnant pool from water which ?ows along a channel between banks, we use the word river.
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