BY

REV. EDWIN H. NEVIN.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY

REV. ALFRED COOKMAN.

"Ecclesiam veram intelligere non audeo, nisi in sanctis et justis.
Muiti sunt in sacramentorum communione cum Ecclesia et tamen
jam non sunt in Ecclesia."-ST. AUSTIN.

LANCASTER, PA.:
JACOB E. BARR.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

JACOB E. BARR,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PEARSOL & GEIST, PRINTERS.

702 No526c

O how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!
No meretricious graces to beguile,

No clustering ornaments to clog the pile:
From ostentation as from weakness free
It stands like the cerulean arch we see,
Majestic in its own simplicity.
Inscribed above the portal, from afar
Conspicuous as the brightness of a star,

Legible only by the light they give,

Stand the soul-quickening words, Believe and Live!