We have been working through the old daily devotionals — books that have sat unread on library shelves for a century or more, scanned but never made readable. Most exist online only as page images or as garbled machine text nobody could follow. Each of these has been carefully brought over into clean, readable form, one page per day, with the scripture references linked through to the Bible so you can read the verse alongside the reading.
These are not modern reprints. Several have not been in print since the 1800s.
William Jay — Morning Exercises for the Closet (1865)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/morning-exercises-for-the-closet/
William Jay — Evening Exercises for the Closet (1832)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/evening-exercises-for-the-closet/
The two fullest of the collection — a substantial reading morning and evening for every day of the year from the great preacher of Bath.
Nelson Head — Daily Walk with Wise Men (1861)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/daily-walk-with-wise-men/
A reading a day gathered from thirty-four of the older divines — Leighton, Chrysostom, Augustine, Jeremy Taylor, Flavel, Baxter — each day naming the hand it came from.
J. P. Thompson — Home Worship (1871)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/home-worship/
Scripture, meditation and prayer for family worship, a service for every day.
Jabez Burns — The Christian's Daily Portion (1842)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/the-christians-daily-portion/
Ebenezer Temple — The Christian's Daily Treasury (1847)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/the-christians-daily-treasury/
Alexander Smellie — In the Hour of Silence (1899)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/in-the-hour-of-silence/
F. E. Pasche — Daily Bread (1929)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/daily-bread/
Tryon Edwards — Light for the Days (1877)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/light-for-the-days/
A verse and one searching question to put to yourself each day.
Caroline Mountjoy Smith — Daily Gleanings of the Saintly Life (1879)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/daily-gleanings-of-the-saintly-life/
Phillips Brooks — Daily Thoughts (1893)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/daily-thoughts-from-phillips-brooks/
C. H. Spurgeon — Daily Help (1900)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/daily-help/
Elizabeth Waterhouse — Companions of the Way (1908)
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/companions-of-the-way-morning/
https://www.sermonindex.net/devotionals/companions-of-the-way-evening/
