THE Followers of the Lord: STORIES FOR CHILDREN FROM Church Bistory. BY THE REV. J. M. NEALE, M.A., WARDEN OF SACKVILLE COLLEGE. Second Edition. LONDON: JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, AND NEW BOND STREET, MDCCCLVI. 7-17-63 N346.470 1856 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE design of this little book is to supply a want which must often, I think, have been felt by parents-that of some appropriate reading which they may put into the hands of their children for Holy Week. Such, I mean, as may not weary their minds by dwelling too entirely and exclusively on our LORD's Passion; nor yet, on the other hand, be absolutely unconnected with it. It seemed to me that stories from Church History might answer such a purpose; that the Passions of the servants may recall that of the Master, while yet, in variety of circumstance and interest, they do so without fatiguing, through too long |