Gleanings by the Way

by John A. Clark

GLEANINGS BY THE WAY;

BY REV. JOHN A. CLARK, D. D.,

Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia,

AUTHOR OF "PASTOR'S TESTIMONY," "GLIMPSES OF THE OLD WORLD," ETC., ETC.

"Let me now go to the field and glean ears of corn." Ruth, ii. 2.

PHILADELPHIA:
W. J. & J. K. SIMON.
NEW YORK:
ROBERT CARTER.
1842.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by
John A. Clark, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court in the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PRINTED BY KING AND BAIRD.

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PREFACE.

When it was not so common, as now, to issue publications from the press, a book of any kind seldom made its appearance, without a preface, to give the reader some idea of its contents, and the history of its elaboration from the author's mind. But at the present day, when authorship is no longer the prerogative of the few, and the press teems with every species of literature, preface writing has quite fallen into desuetude; not improbably for the very solid and satisfactory reason that it would be a most difficult, perplexing, and onerous business, to their several authors, to assign any plausible grounds for the publication of one half of the volumes that come forth in such immense shoals from the press.