WILLIAM W. SPEAR,
Rector of St. Luke's, Philadelphia, late of St. Michael's, Charleston.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

PHILADELPHIA:
HERMAN HOOKER—178 CHESNUT STREET.

1844.

Entered according to the act of congress, in the year 1843, by the Rer. Herman Hooker, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

TO

THE CONGREGATIONS

OF

ST. LUKE'S CHURCU, PHILADELPHIA,

AND

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, CHARLESTON,

THE FORMER

OF WHICH NOW OCCUPIES HIS MIND,

WHILE THE LATTER

STILL RETAINS A PLACE IN HIS HEART,

THIS VOLUME,

PREPARED WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

THEIR COMFORT AND PROFIT,

IS DEDICATED BY

THEIR OBLIGED AND AFFECTIONATE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR,

WITH THE EARNEST HOPE

THAT NONE OF THOSE WHO HAVE

EVER BEEN UNDER HIS PASTORAL CARE,

MAY BE NUMBERED AT LAST

AMONG “THE FAMILIES

THAT CALL NOT UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD.”