OR, LECTURES ON THE CHARACTER OF NEHEMIAH. BY THE LATE HUGH STOWELL, M.A. RECTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH, SalforD; HONORARY CANON OF CHESTER; DEDICATION. MY BELOVED FLOCK, These Lectures, preached for your edification, and reported through your kindness, have been carefully revised, and are now dedicated to you as an expression of the grateful affection of one who, throughout a ministry in Christ Church embracing nearly a quarter of a century, has ever had reason to love you more and more. No pastor can have had a people more faithful in their attachment, more delicate in their attentions, or more generous in their sympathies, than mine have been. I have not been insensible: if I have said little, it has been because I felt much. This volume will have one attraction for you. It is a fair specimen of my ordinary ministrations amongst you-of the way in which I have striven to weave the golden threads of evangelical doctrine into the texture of everyday duty and character. May He-without whose blessing no effort can avail, and with whose blessing even mine will be effectual-overrule these a 2 |