INTRODUCTION.

"The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."-2 COR. v. 14, 15.

"He lives who lives to God alone,

And all are dead beside."

COWPER,

PART II-USEFUL CHRISTIANS IN MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1865, Mar. 17. Bu Ep banys

Bilteman Dajbears,

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PETER DRUMMOND, ESQ.,

AND

THE REV. WILLIAM REID, M.A., STIRLING,

IN CONNECTION WITH WHOSE EFFORTS OF CHRISTIAN USEFULNESS,

BY MEANS OF THE PRESS,

MOST OF THE FOLLOWING SKETCHES, IN An abridged FORM,

WERE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.