Excerpt from Shadows of the Rood: Or Types of Our Suffering Redeemer Jesus Christ Occuring in the Book of Genesis; Being the Substance of a Series of Moral Discourses Delivered in the Church of the Assumption During the Lent of 1856 The Author feels that some apology is due to those, who kindly subscribed for these discourses, as soon as they were first announced, so long since as the close of last Lent, for the delay which has attended their publication. But, when it is stated that they were preached nearly from meditation only, and had almost entirely to be written, and that too, at late and early hours, redeemed from the absorbing cares and toils of a very arduous Mission, and one of those Missions, which at present depend for efficiency, if not for existence, on means begged by the Pastor at the sacrifice of all his leisure, the Author cannot but submit that he is not deserving of blame on the score of idleness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.