G.S. Morris RELIGION: 70100 A REVELATION AND A RULE OF LIFE. BY REV. WILLIAM KIRKUS, M. A., LL. B., UNIVERSITY OF LONDON: RECTOR OF THE CHURCH OF S. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BALTIMORE, MD. NEW YORK : THOMAS WHITTAKER, 2 AND 3 BIBLE HOUSE, 1886. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND H. C. POTTER, D. D., LL. D., ASSISTANT BISHOP OF NEW YORK. RIGHT REVErend and DEAR SIR: I am sure that nobody can imagine that, in these few dedicatory lines, I presume or desire to represent you as in the least degree responsible for any part of the contents of this little volume-not one sentence of which has been in any way submitted to you. But in venturing to offer to the public the first book that, in the United States, I have published, I am glad to avail myself of the opportunity of expressing not only my profound reverence for your high office, and my ever increasing admiration of your personal administration of it, but also my very grateful sense of a long series of kindnesses to myself. For, during more than twelve years, I have received from you the most valuable assistance, in all sorts of ways. When I was slowly feeling my way to an understanding of the religious life and ecclesiastical law and usages of my adopted country, I could have had no greater advantage than the example and precept of one so perfectly well informed as yourself, and occupying so honourable a position as that which |