Confirmation and First Communion : A SERIES OF ESSAYS, LECTURES, SERMONS, CONVERSATIONS, AND HEADS OF CATECHISING, RELATIVE TO THE PREPARATION OF CATECHUMENS. "WHATEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY MIGHT."-ECCLES. IX. 10. BY THE REV. HENRY NEWLAND, M. A., RECTOR AND VICAR OF WESTBOURNE, ત THIN LONDON: JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, AND NEW BOND STREET. MDCCCLIII. 138. f.24. V TO THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD. MY LORD, Westbourne Vicarage, Whit-Sunday, 1853. The patron to whom a book is dedicated is a sort of guarantee to the public for the character of the book itself, a living synopsis of its contents. My book is a record of hard work and practical experience; I dedicate it therefore to the only Bishop on the Bench (I think I may say the only Bishop within the memory of man,) who having successively filled the offices of (1) Deacon, (2) Curate, (3) Incumbent, (4) Rural Dean, (5) Archdeacon, (6) Cathedral Dean, (7) Bishop is able not only to instruct his Clergy theoretically, but to show them practically what their work should be. Still, in dedicating my book to your Lordship, I would not have it supposed that I am seeking to shift from my own shoulders one particle of the responsibility which every one must incur who publishes his sentiments on matters of doctrine. Your Lordship may possibly recog |