MINISTER OF THE THIRD REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA.

If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.-2 PETER 1. 8.

Philadelphia:

PUBLISHED BY HARRISON HALL,

No. 72 South Fourth Street.

1839.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

GEORGE W. BETHUNE,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

1. ASHMEAD AND CO., PRINTERS.

惡

то

MY MOTHER

AND

FIRST TEACHER IN RELIGION,

WITH THE HUMBLE HOPE THAT

HER PRAYERS FOR HER SON'S USEFULNESS MAY BE ANSWERED

BY THE

DIVINE BLESSING

UPON

THE FOLLOWING PAGES,

THEY ARE

AFFECTIONATELY AND GRATEFULLY

DEDICATED.