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CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE.

CHRIST

OUR EXAMPLE.

BY

CAROLINE FRY,

AUTHOR OF 'THE LISTENER,' 'DAILY READINGS,' ETC.

Ninth Edition,

WITH A PREFACE BY THE

REV. A. M. W. CHRISTOPHER, M.A.

RECTOR OF ST. ALDATE'S, OXFORD.

LONDON:

HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.

1873.

141. m. 94.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOHN STRANGEWAYS,

Castle St. Leicester Sq.

PREFACE.

SOME years ago I was requested to open, at a Clerical and Lay Conference, the discussion of the following question:-Is the Example of our Lord brought forward in a sufficiently systematic manner by Ministers of the Gospel? When preparing for this discussion I asked three friends-Dr. Miller, now Vicar of Greenwich, the Rev. C. J. Goodhart, now Rector of Wetherden, and the Rev. S. R. Capel, Rector of Wareham-which they considered to be the best book on the Example of our Lord. Each one of the three, without knowing that the other two had been consulted, named in his reply the book now before the Reader-Christ our Example, by the late Caroline Fry.

At the Conference I mentioned this fact, and a clergyman, known for his sound Scriptural writings, rose and said that when he was an undergraduate at Oxford thirty years ago, he had

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