Transcribed from the 1866 John Snow and Co. edition ,
SERMONS
preached at
THE OPENING SERVICES
of the
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL,
In 1866,
AT MALVERN,
by
Rev. W. M. Punshon, | Rev. W. Arthur, |
Rev. J. H. James, | Rev. C. Prest, |
Rev. J. Priestley, | Rev. G. Smith, |
Rev. G. Wood. |
With a Preface by Knowles King.
LONDON:
JOHN SNOW & CO., IVY LANE,
paternoster row;
WARREN HALL & CO., CAMDEN ROAD.
1866.
p. 3to
RALPH BARNES GRINDROD,
of malvern,
m.d., ll.d., f.l.s., f.r.g.s., f.g.s., &c., &c.,
This Volume of Sermons
is respectfully inscribed,
in thankful acknowledgment of the learned
doctor’s great gift of healing;
but more especially of his large charity,
and high christian character.
The Sermons which make up this volume were preached at Malvern, in 1866,at, and immediately after, the opening services of the Wesleyan Chapelthere.
This beautiful and commodious building owes its erection to the pietyand energy of the Rev. W. M. Punshon, who, inthe year 1862, proposed by Lectures, and otherwise, to raise a fund forbuilding Wesleyan Chapels in places of summer resort.
This proposition was well responded to by Mr. Punshon’s friends, and the Wesleyan public, andforty thousand pounds have already been expended in the erection of newChapels at Ilfracombe, Dawlish, the Lizard, Brighton, Weymouth, Eastbourne,Walmer, Folkestone, Bournemouth, Blackpool, Lancing, Llandudus, Rhyl,Saltburn, Bray, Matlock, Malvern, Keswick, Bowness, and the Isle ofWight. Others are in progress.
These Sermons are published with the consent of the several preachers,but it must be stated that they were p. 6preached without any viewto publication, and now appear in print, nearly word for word, as they weredelivered, extempore, from the pulpit. Some of them, indeed, havenever been committed to writing by the authors; for instance, of thebeautiful sermon of Mr. Arthur, “not aword” was written by him either before or since its delivery.
This will account for the fact that the subjects are not treated withany degree of scientific exactness, as essays might require; but in amanner intended to suggest useful thoughts to serious audiences.
Although myself of the Church of England, I have had many opportunities,during the past thirty-five years, of hearing discourses from Wesleyanministers, and making personal acquai