PREFACE.

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be a great life, are its achievements, and not its age. though this method must give an appearance of diffuseness, to portions of the work, this, too, is natural. There are deeper currents, and wider reaches, here and there, in all streams, except canals. And a great soul, possessed with special aims, overflows a deeper fulness, upon certain portions of its life, that are specially consecrated to those aims. It will readily

PREFACE.

A WORD or two seems needful, as to the plan adopted in the pages that follow. When the work of preparing this Memoir, was first suggested to the Author, he shrunk from its difficulty; and only undertook it, upon the advice of those, whose judgment he is bound to respect. The delicacy of his own position, the difficulty of the task, the responsibility involved in it, the very large material, to be selected, condensed, arranged, all these have only grown upon his mind, with the progress of the book, which has been prepared under personal sorrows, and sickness, and the added disadvantages of haste, and a change of home. It was a work, especially demanding the Horatian rule, to be laid aside, at least, to the ninth month, that its birth might be after the full time. But this could not be.

An order has been adopted, in the arrangement of materials for the Memoir, consulting, rather, principles, than time. It is hoped that this has not created any chronological confusion. If it has, it is suggested, that our common estimate of great lives, measures them by their doings, and not by their years. The mere miles, that measure distance, are lost, in the absorbing beauty of a landscape; and a life's milestones, if it be a great life, are its achievements, and not its age. And though this method must give an appearance of diffuseness, to portions of the work, this, too, is natural. There are deeper currents, and wider reaches, here and there, in all streams, except canals. And a great soul, possessed with special aims, overflows a deeper fulness, upon certain portions of its life, that are specially consecrated to those aims. It will readily

be seen, that MISSIONS, and CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, as the two points most dwelt on, in this Memoir, were the broadest and the deepest places, in the broad, deep current, of this life. To bring this out, and to develop the beautiful unity of my Father's life, I have taken up these points, and traced out, without interruption, his whole connection with each of them; returning, after a review in each case of his whole life, (in one bearing of it,) to the date, from which the opening of the subject began. The reader is asked to remember this. The Appendix, in some degree, but not altogether, relieves the seeming confusion.

The order of the Poems, as far as possible, is that of time. Most of the original "Songs by the Way" are reprinted; and as many are added, as could be, with a proper regard, to the sacredness of personal affection.

The order proposed for the Sermons, combines subjects, and time. Under the head of Episcopal Sermons, are included many preached, parochially. But my Father wrote no sermons, for his visitations, except in cases of Institution, Ordination, or some special service of that sort. His confirmation sermons, and those ordinarily preached at visitations, were written for his own people of St. Mary's. A few of these visitation sermons are included. The Baccalaureate addresses, and the addresses to the graduating classes of St. Mary's Hall, are reserved for the fifth volume.

To the many friends of my Father's, whose tributes to his blessed memory adorn these pages, the Author personally owes a most pleasing debt, of grateful affection. To the Rev. Dr. Mahan, who was for many years my Father's most trusted and beloved counsellor and friend, the Author gladly acknowledges his obligations, for suggestions and services that have been invaluable to him, as well as for the graceful words, that introduce this volume. And there are kind hearts and hands, that have helped on the labour of this writing, whose love is its own best reward.

BURLINGTON, January A. D. 1860.