Produced by Don Kostuch [Transcriber's Notes: This production was derived from https://archive.org/details/lifeofrevfrancis00hewi/page/n9] {1} Sermons Of The Rev. Francis A. Baker, Priest Of The Congregation Of St. Paul. With A Memoir Of His Life BY Rev. A. F. Hewit. Fourth Edition. New York: Lawrence Kehoe, 145 Nassau Street. 1867. {2} Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1865 By A. F. Hewit, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. {3} PREFACE. ------ In offering the Memoir and Sermons of this volume to the friends of F. Baker, and to the public, propriety requires of me a few words of explanation. The number of those who have been more or less interested in the events touched upon in the sketch of his life and labors is very great, and composed of many different classes of persons in various places, and of more than one religious communion. I cannot suppose that all of them will read these pages, but it is likely that many will; and therefore a word is due to those who are more particularly interested, as well as to the general class of readers. I have to ask the indulgence of all my readers for having interwoven so much of my own history and my own reflections on the topics and events of the period included within the limits of the narrative. They have woven themselves in spontaneously, without any intention on my part, and on account of the close connexion between myself and the one whose career I have been describing; and I have been unable to unravel them from the texture of the narrative without breaking its threads. {4}