MEMOIR

OF

REV. JAMES PATTERSON.

REV. JAMES PATTERSON,

LATE PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, N. L., PHILAD.

BY

ROBERT ADAIR,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SOUTHWARK.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER ON FIELD PREACHING,

BY

REV. D. L. CARROLL, D. D.

"I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears."-ACTS xx. 31.
"For my name's sake (thou) hast laboured, and hast not fainted.”—REV. ii. 3.

PHILADELPHIA:

HENRY PERKINS, 134 CHESTNUT STREET.

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Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

MRS. SARAH PATTERSON,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

1. Ashmead & Co. Printers.

7-22-1924

TO THE

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, N. L, PHILADELPHIA,

THIS

MEMORIAL OF THEIR DECEASED PASTOR

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

་

WITH THE FERVENT DESIRE, THAT BY IT

HE,

WHOSE UNCEASING SOLICITUDE FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL WELFARE

WAS MANIFESTED, FOR MANY YEARS,

IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS,

MAY STILL, THROUGH THE DIVINE BLESSING,

SPEAK EFFECTUALLY TO THEIR HEARTS,

AND EXCITE THEM TO

LABOUR FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE REST OF IMMORTALITY,

BY

THEIR AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,

1*

ROBERT ADAIR.