can be no doubt, we owe much of that ardent zeal, and those various and incessant labours, by which the pastor of the Higher Alps was so eminently distinguished.
Mr. Gilly's account of the early religious history of Neff appeared short and unsatisfactory; and the very extensive revival, of which he was the highly honoured instrument, he found, was spoken of as a mere improvement; whilst the numerous meetings for prayer and mutual exhortation established by him, and of whose importance he was, to the last hour of his existence, a most decided advocate, were condemned, or, at most, spoken of in the language of doubt and suspicion. Besides other circumstances, which acted as a stimulus to the present undertaking, but which it is unnecessary to enumerate, the dying experience of Neff, and the influence of religion upon his mind at that most trying period of human exist ence, appeared to occupy a much too contracted space.
The writer of the present volume wishes particularly to express his obligations to Messrs. Bost and Guers, of Geneva, for the readiness with which they communicated