Wher reading such lives as those of Brainerd and Doddridge, I have often stood amazed,
I could almost say envious of their power to sustain a real and spiritual intercourse with
Heaver. for large portions of a whole day.-Thomas Chalmers, D.D.

BY REV. THOMAS BRAINERD, D.D.
PASTOR OF “OLD PINE STREET CHURCH," PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA:
PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE,

LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

This Volume is Electrotyped by the liberality of

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of the Central Presbyterian Church,

Wilmington, Delaware.

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MAR 29 1900

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PREFACE.

THE inclination of the author has heretofore led

him to “hoe short rows” in the field of literature. He has edited a Child's Paper, a Youth's Magazine, a Religious Newspaper, and aided in a Quarterly. He has printed articles in Literary Monthlies, published Sermons and Tracts often; but this is his first attempt in making a book. If he have but imperfectly succeeded, there need be no alarm among his friends: he is not likely to repeat the offence. Dr. Livingstone, after escaping from sixteen years' travel and peril in Africa, said he would rather repeat his journey than rewrite his journal.” We sympathize with him.

The author's full professional labors and incidental duties have so absorbed his time and taxed his energies, that leisurely, discriminating, and accurate authorship would imply a miracle of self