OF

THE BUBBLETON PARISH;

OR,

PAPERS FROM THE EXPERIENCE

OF AN

AMERICAN MINISTER.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY BILLINGS.

"Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in
they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous
dragons' teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed
men."-MILTON.

them;

BOSTON:

A. TOMPKINS AND B. B. MUSSEY & CO.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

NOV 4 1940

Bemis tund

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

ABEL TOMPKINS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS,

BOSTON.

то

THE INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN PASTOR,

WHO MAINTAINS THE INTEGRITY OF HIS OFFICE

AMID THE ALLUREMENTS OF FRIENDSHIP AND THE THREATENINGS OF ENMITY;

PROCLAIMING THE WILL OF GOD IN FEARLESS FAITH AND UNCOMPROMISING PURITY }

TRUSTING IN THE POWER OF TRUTH AND THE RECOMPENSE OF VIRTUE;

These "Records" of Ministerial Vicissitudes,

IN THE CELEBRATED PARISH OF BUBBLETON,

ARE VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.