GOSPEL-HUSBANDRY; OR, THE PILGRIM IN THE MISSION FIELD. A SERIES OF Short Devotional Readings; WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. K BY HENRY SMITH, ESQ., AUTHOR OF "THE PILGRIM'S STAFF," LONDON: WILLIAM MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST REVEREND THE VICE-PATRON, THE RIGHT HON. THE PRESIDENT, THE VICE-PRESIDENTS, AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, This Work IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. To the Reader. IT has long been my privilege to stand in close connexion with the Church Missionary Society. I have enjoyed the opportunity, not only of marking the principles which govern its movements, but of seeing them tested by the results of its efforts. And I have besides considered it part of the duty imposed upon me, by the relation in which I stand towards the Society, to make myself acquainted with the annals of its growth, from its infancy until the present day of its ripened manhood. The result of this experience and study has happily established me in the conviction-a conviction which I hold in common with all those who have traced effects to causes, in accounting for its success-that the great Lord of the harvest has crowned its labours with His special blessing,because they have been conducted with a single eye and a single heart to His glory, in the unfolding of His salvation in the face of the heathen;-because, on the part of the governing body, as well as of its |