SAMUEL J. BAIRD, D.D. PASTOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WOODBURY, N. J. PHILADELPHIA: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by SAMUEL J. BAIRD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PHILADELPHIA. COLLINS, PRINTER. BODI ΤΟ MY BELOVED AND VENERATED MOTHER, ESTHER THOMPSON BAIRD, IS INSCRIBED THIS ATTEMPT TO EXHIBIT SOME OF THE DOCTRINES OF CHRIST, THE PRINCIPLES OF WHICH WERE LEARNED AT HER FEET, FROM THE WESTMINSTER CATECHISMS AND THE WORD OF GOD, AND DEVELOPED IN THEIR HARMONIOUS PROPORTIONS IN THE SABBATH EVENING FAMILY EXPOSITIONS OF A FATHER WHOSE FAITH IS LONG SINCE LOST IN VISION. |