Excerpt from An Essay on the Local or Lay Ministry: As Exercised in the Wesleyan and Other Branches of the Methodist Family The Essay which is now presented to the world, owes its paternity to the generosity of John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton Hall, near Huddersfield. In the course of last year(1849), Mr. Kaye offered for competition two prizes, the one of fifty pounds, and the other of twenty-five pounds, for two Essays on the Methodist Local Ministry; to be written exclusively by Local Preachers, and to embrace the several topics which are discussed in the following pages. It is well known, that, within the last few years, a number of Prize Essays have been added to the religious literature of this country. These Essays, which embrace subjects of the highest conceivable interest and importance, and combine the loftiest talent with the deepest piety, are the legitimate offspring of British benevolence. Several of the Essays have emanated from the mental recesses of the pious and erudite principal of Cheshunt College, and are deservedly entitled to a place of distinction in the public estimation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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