LECTURES AND SERMONS, ETC. BY THE LATE REV. JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH OWEN, M.A., VICAR OF ST. JUDE'S, CHELSEA ; FORMERLY VICAR OF ST. MARY'S, BILSTON; TOGETHER WITH A Brief Memoir of his Life, BY HIS SON, EDWARD ANNESLEY OWEN, M. A., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: WILLIAM MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER Row. 1873. 100. w: 235: PREFACE. In offering this short biographical notice of a father to his friends-for it is for them only that this sketch is published-the writer feels that diffidence which a delicate sensibility should always suggest, in his fear lest the dear memory of the dead, or the fortunes of this little history, should suffer from an over-eulogistic treatment. Wherefore, his only preface is an appeal to the reader for his indulgence towards blemishes which the natural abundance of filial veneration must excuse. "Manibus date lilia plenis, Purpurios spargam flores, animamque parentis |