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  “FATHER CLARK,”

  OR

  The Pioneer Preacher.

  SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS
  OF
  REV. JOHN CLARK,

  BY AN OLD PIONEER.


  NEW YORK:
  SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN,
  No. 115 NASSAU STREET.
  1855.




  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

  SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN,

  In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
  Southern District of New York.


  JOHN J. REED,
  _Stereotyper and Printer_,
  16 Spruce street.




INTRODUCTION.


The incidents, manners and customs of frontier life in the country
once called the “Far West,”--now the valley of the Mississippi, are
interesting to all classes. The religious events and labors of good men
in “works of faith and labors of love” among the early pioneers of this
valley, cannot fail to attract the attention of young persons in the
family circle, and children in Sabbath schools.

The author of this work, as the commencement of a series of PIONEER
BOOKS, has chosen for a theme a man of singularly benevolent and
philanthropic feelings; peculiarly amiable in manners and social
intercourse; with habits of great self-denial; unusually disinterested
in his labors, and the first preacher of the gospel who ventured to
carry the