Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - ANDOVER- HARVARD - TlEOLOGICAL Library PUBLISHERS’ NOTICE. In sending this work to the press, it can truly be said that its subject has contributed his share solely to gratify many old and new friends, and in deference to their views of its utility rather than his own. He is responsible only for that which appears as his. The Sketch of his Life is printed as it fell from the venerated author’s lips, except that verbal repetitions have been erased, a few omissions were afterwards supplied by him, and some narratives are so transposed as to make the whole as far as practicable appear in the proper order of time. The language?the forms of expression?have been retained, so as to make the whole an exact representation of Elder Sheardown?As He WAS, AND AS HE IS. It is not issued as a literary recreation, but is designed to meet the wishes of very numerous deeply attached admirers of the man, and for all honest, hearty workers in the Lord’s vineyard, who may open the volume. It is a deserved (though imperfect) memorial of One of those self-denying, pioneer ministers of the Gospel, whose abundant labors VZThave been largely blessed in laying broad and deep the t foundations of Christian Churches. His graphic por- - traitures of godly, active church members, on both sides of the Atlantic, may also, it is hoped, be of lasting benefit beyond the bounds of his acquaintance. It may be asked, by some at a distance from the scenes of his labors, why a minister whose friends require this printed volume, even in his life-time, has not a more extended reputation ? The query will be answered in the contemplation of the unremitting efforts revealed in the following pages. Yet it may be well here to say, that, as far as the writer has known or heard, Elder Sheardown has …
