THE CURE OF SOULS

They that are whole need not a physician,

but they that are sick."-LUKE 5:31.

Transfer from Oro Dept

Muhlenburg Br.

MAY 1 1911

To the memory of

The Doctors of the Old School
of

The Church in Virginia,

Peterkin, Gibson and Dame

who, by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as faithful pastors of the flock of Christ and skilled physicians of the souls of men, went about doing good and ministering in their cure of souls to the individual members and lost sheep of the Household of Faith: upon whom was the Spirit of the Lord and in whom was the consuming zeal of Him whose servants they were; to preach good tidings unto the meek, to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that were bound; to comfort all that mourned, to appoint unto them that mourned in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness

to the memory of these and their like

with the fervent prayer and anxious hope that God
may continue to raise up others to be their successors
in all the Church in the ministry of His Son
this little volume of sermons

is reverently and gratefully dedicated