MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND GOSPEL LABOURS OF THE LATE DANIEL WHEELER, A MINISTER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and LONDON: HARVEY AND DARTON, 55, GRACECHURCH STREET; 1842. 1299. PREFACE. In presenting to the public the following Memoirs, a few explanatory remarks may be requisite. For some years previous to the decease of our honoured parent, it was evidently a matter which he had much at heart, to leave behind him some narrative of his life; no doubt believing that a record, in which might be traced so many instances of Divine mercy and interposition, could not but be instructive and strengthening to others. This work, however, though commenced in the year 1831, was never completed; and it has been our duty to supply the deficiency from whatever sources lay within our reach. From the period at which the autobiography abruptly terminates, to the time of his removal to Russia, the recollections of his family, and, in some instances, the memoranda of his intimate friends, have furnished the only data but it must be observed, that nothing has been allowed a place, which could not be stated with entire confidence; more might undoubtedly have been given, by including incidents not so distinctly remembered, and matter derived from traditional, rather than personal knowledge, which in the present instance has been carefully avoided. |