PREFACE. T HIS little book, or booklet, like the landlord's chest in The Deserted Village, is "contrived a double debt to pay.” First, it includes the last ten Sermons I have been allowed to preach, the only sermons I was able to preach during the last six months of a pastorate extending over a quarter of a century, and of a ministry which has lasted some forty years. My Congregation, as was natural perhaps, seeing that it consisted of personal and attached friends, expressed a strong desire to have these Sermons printed, that they might read and retain them in a permanent form. With their request I very gladly comply, as indeed I should be happy to comply with any request they could make of me ; for I owe them much, and love them much. |