French mission life...

Introduction

I have never liked reading a long introduction, and my reader will therefore excuse me from the task of writing one.

The incidents of the following sketches occurred, with five or six exceptions, in the city of Detroit during the time I was pastor of the French congregation in that place, a Church in the meantime having been organized by me under the direction of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Several of them have appeared in the columns of the Christian Advocate and Journal, and, as I could not help learning, have been extensively read.

4 INTRODUCTION.

Subsequent particulars are added in this work, with new narratives never before published ; and the whole are now put in this form, in the hope that they may serve to encourage Christians in the great work of spreading Scriptural holiness, and perhaps interest the heart of some one far from Christ, and induce him to turn and live.