MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN STANFORD, D. D. LATE CHAPLAIN TO THE HUMANE AND CRIMINAL BY CHARLES G. SOMMERS, PASTOR OF THE SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH IN NEW-YORK, 1. TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX, COMPRISING BRIEF MEMOIRS OF .'. I THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS, THE REV. THOMAS BALDWIN, D. D. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.-Psalm cxii. 6. NEW-YORK: SWORDS, STANFORD, AND CO. 1835. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by THOMAS N. STANFORD, in the Clerk's Office.of.the Southern District of NewYork. ADVERTISEMENT. THE present Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D. D. was commenced at the particular solicitation of his surviving relatives and other friends. It was attempted with great diffidence, and continued under all the disadvantages of accumulated, public duties and frequent interruptions. Historical accuracy, and not literary excellence, is all at which circumstances have enabled the writer to aim; he would, therefore, bespeak the indulgence of the reader, so far at least as regards those incidental imperfections which a just criticism may detect. With no ambition for authorship, but in humble hope that this biography of a servant of Jesus Christ, so eminently pious, and of such distinguished usefulness, may be made instrumental in promoting that cause to which his youth and hoary age were alike devoted, the work is committed to the providence of God. B |