REV. T. W. FOWLE, M.A. Oxon. LATE CURATE OF THE PARISH, AND NOW CURATE IN CHARGE OF THE LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186 FLEET STREET. 1864. 100. S. 34. To the Memory OF THE REV. EDWARD STOKES, M.A. LATE VICAR OF STAINES, (FROM WHOSE LIFE AND EXAMPLE THE WRITER LEARNT MORE THAN CAN BE TOLD), These Sermons ARE DEDICATED BY HIS SORROWING FRIEND AND BROTHER IN CHRIST. PREFACE. THE Author of this little Volume of Sermons thinks it right to state the reasons which have induced him to publish them. Though the idea of this series of subjects is, to the best of his knowledge, a new one, yet that alone would not have warranted their publication, had there not been a special reason arising from the circumstances under which they were preached. They were a farewell course delivered to a congregation to which he was and is bound by the closest ties of kindness and affection, and some of those who heard them-deceived, perhaps, by their own good will towards the preacher desired to have them in a more permanent form as a reminiscence of a very happy ministry closed by the death of one of the best and most beloved of men. The author has, therefore, published them just as they were preached, without omitting the personal or local allusions which they contain. He desires further to take this opportunity of expressing his deep sense of the obligations under which he has lain, |