IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE; OR, THE AFTERNOON OF MY DAYS: COMPREHENDING CHIEFLY, THE PERIOD BETWEEN MY FORTY-FIFTH, AND THE END OF MY SIXTIETH YEAR, BEING FROM, THE RETROSPECTIONS OF A SEXAGENARIAN: SOME OF THE MORE RECENT UPS AND DOWNS,-THE JOYS AND SORROWS,- OF A LIFE PASSED IN COMPARATIVE OBSCURITY, BUT REPLETE WITH MUCH STRIKING WILL BE FOUND DELINEATED In such a way, as cannot fail to interest the careful observer of the Providential development of ILLUSTRATING AND INCULCATING AS THE NARRATIVE PROCEEDS, SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS AND SUBLIME MAXIMS OF OUR CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY; NOT IN EXAMPLES DRAWN FROM FICTITIOUS REPRESENTATIONS; OR IMA- A COUNTRY BOOKSELLER: Who exercised that profession in his little Provincial Locality with varied success, for the greater "What! shall we receive good at the hand ofGOD, and shall we not receive evil?"-JOB. EDINBURGH-PRINTED BY JAMES COLSTON, FOR THE AUTHOR,~ ORDERS MAY BE ADDRESSED. Price Eight Shillings, done up in cloth. MY MUCH esteemed VOLUNTARY AUXILIARIES; WHETHER IN, OR MY KIND, OBLIGING, AND HIGHLY VALUED PRIVATE FRIENDS, WHO I DESIRE TO DEDICATE, AS IS MOST JUSTLY DUE, FOR THE KIND SHARE THEY HAVE TAKEN IN THE ACT OF BRINGING IT INTO EXISTENCE, AND OF MAKING IT AVAILABLE, TO THE AUTHOR, FOR THE PURPOSES INTENDED, THE PRESENT VOLUME, COMPRISING MY LATTER STRUGGLES : BEING, PRINCIPALLY CONFINED TO THE OCCURRENCES OF THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS; AND WITH MY MOST FERVENT WISHES, THAT THE BEST BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY MAY BE SHOWERED DOWN UPON THEIR HEADS THAT THEY BE BLESSED IN THEIR BASKET AND IN THEIR STORE-IN THEIR FAMILY AND CONNEXIONS THEIR HEALTH AND SICKNESS-THEIR LIFE AND DEATH. IN THE AFFAIRS OF LIFE MAY THEY EVER BE UNDER THE PECULIAR CARE OF A WATCHFUL NEVER CEASE SOUNDING IN THEIR EARS, UNTIL, WITH HOPE BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL, FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY. |