THE CHRISTIAN VISITOR'S COMPANION: A MANUAL CONTAINING SCRIPTURE READINGS, WITH EXPOSITIONS, INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THOSE WHO VISIT WHERE, THE PUBLIC MEANS OF GRACE ARE UNATTAINABLE. BY ADAM NEWMAN BEAMISH, B. A., INCUMBENT OF STUDLEY, TROWBRIDGE, WILTS. WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH, AND HUNT, AND 23, HOLLES-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE. 1858. 138. d.112. LONDON: WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH, AND HUNT, 24, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND 23, HOLLES-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQuare. PREFACE. PLACED as a Curate in a parish containing some seven thousand souls, and finding that a considerable number were unable to attend at the house of God, from either transient or chronic diseases, I thought that it devolved on me to read and explain to them in their own houses the written Word of God. I continued to do so for about two years. My usual mode of proceeding was this: If I found that in any one street there were several valetudinarians, who, though unable to walk so far as the place of worship, could crawl into a neighbour's house who was so ill as to be incapable of going out of doors, I invited them to attend there at a certain hour, once a-week, in order that they might hear the Scriptures read and explained. I laboured chiefly, but not exclusively, among the poor. In the rural parts of the parish I sometimes |