The Work, under its new title, "The Sheepfold and the Common," has undergone a very careful revision; many portions of the original have been re-written, and others omitted to make room for new matter of more interest and importance at the present time. While carrying out the main object of the Work, as already adverted to—namely, to present the grand doctrines of the Christian faith in a pleasing and attractive manner—the Author has also endeavoured to elucidate various topics important to the church at large and to the well-being of society in general; and though he has not plunged into the mazes of controversy, with the obscure and often unintelligible advocates of the theological heresies of the age, yet many of the more prominent of these have been subjected to a severe and, he trusts, an impartial examination.
If the re-issue of this Work should prove as successful in conveying spiritual life to the spiritually dead—in relieving the anxious inquirer from his misgivings and perplexities—and in administering the consolations of faith and hope to the devout believer, while passing through the varied seasons of his eventful history, as it proved in its less perfect and less attractive form—then, whether living or dying, the Author will indulge the hope of meeting many, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be to him a crown of rejoicing for ever.
CONTENTS.
VOL I.
| Page | |
| The Lonely Widow, | [1] |
| The Widow's Son, | [11] |
| The Widow's Son Reclaimed, | [21] |
| Fairmount, | [32] |
| A Morning's Ramble, | [43] |
| The Horningsham Sailor, | [53] |
| The Rector of Broadhurst, | [65] |
| A Visit to the Rectory, | [76] |
| Saturday Evening at Fairmount, | [92] |
| A Sabbath Morning at Fairmount, | [107] |
| Sabbath Evening at Fairmount, | [121] |
| The Bible Disdained, | [132] |
| The Bible Precious, | [149] |
| The Family of the Roscoes, | [154] |
| The Social Party, | [164] |
| Miss Roscoe, | [174] |
| A Village Funeral, | [186] |
| Miss Roscoe withdraws from Gay Life, | [197] |
| Fresh Perplexities, | [209] |
| The Religious Party, | [217] |
| Miss Roscoe, | [226] |
| The Family of the Lawsons, | [235] |
| Calm Discussion, | [246] |
| Self-Delusion, | [257] |
| A Night Calamity, | [266] |
| A Surprise, | [276] |
| The Consultation, | [287] |
| The Dark Vale Illumined, | [297] |
| Intemperate Zeal, | [307] |
| Baptismal Regeneration a Fiction, | [317] |
| The Retired Christian, | [328] |
| Spiritual Regeneration a Reality, | [336] |
| The Evidences of Spiritual Regeneration, | [346] |
| On Conversion, | [357] |
| The Tendency of Evangelical Preaching, | [370] |
| On Attending an Evangelical Ministry, | [383] |
| The Unhappy One, | [397] |
| The Scene Changes, | [410] |
| The Tractarian at Fault, | [421] |
| The Popular Delusion, | [443] |
| The Churchman's Lament, | [455] |
| Right at Last, | [478] |
| The Quakeress, | [495] |
| An Escape from a False Refuge, | [518] |
| Christmas, | [544] |
| Winter Scenes, | [560] |
| On Apostolical Succession, | [574] |