THE PARISH - SIDE. BY THE AUTHOR OF SOME OTHER BOOKS, AND CLERK OF THE PARISH OF EDGEFIELD. With Ellustrations. NEW YORK: MASON BROTHERS, 23 PARK ROW. AL 4329.25 Harvard College Library Gift of Rev. T. F. Briggs, Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, PRINTED BY JOHN A. GRAY 95 & 97 Cliff St PREFACE. THE "Sunny-Side," and the "Shady-Side," of Life in a Parsonage, having been given to the world, and its sympathies, very justly I allow, enlisted on the Pastor's side, it seems not an undesirable attempt, nor too presuming an intention, to portray, in a few sketches, some of the excitements, labors, and trials, experienced on the PARISH-SIDE. This has been here attempted with all reasonable brevity, and with fairness. The writer has not arrayed the Parish against the minister, but has represented the two as happily united in the strong, indissoluble tie of Love, fulfilling the same ends of the Gospel Church. It had been an easy matter to produce from some other society a darker picture, than is furnished in the well-ordered Parish of Edgefield. For to whom is it |