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RIGHT REV. JOHN BIRD SUMNER, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.
MY DEAR LORD,
I KNOW no person, to whom I can more fitly address the following Work than yourself. A sincere individual regard and esteem might indeed alone constitute a sufficiently strong and valid motive : yet there may be, and in truth there is, a motive of a much higher nature. As one of the most valued and most valuable of the appointed Overseers of God's flock ; one, whose faithfulness in his great Pasto(...)".