Addington Venables BISHOP OF NASSAU.   A Sketch OF HIS LIFE AND LABOURS FOR THE CHURCH OF GOD.   BY W. FRANCIS HENRY KING, M.A. CHRISTCHURCH, OXON., ASSISTANT CURATE OF ENFIELD, COMMISSARY TO THE LATE BISHOP.   THE BISHOP'S YACHT.   London: W. WELLS GARDNER, 2 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.

"We need as much the cross we bear
  As air we breathe, as light we see;
It draws us to Thy side in prayer;
  It binds us to our strength in Thee." A.L. WARING.

Preface

Chapter I. Eton and Oxford--Death of his Guardian, Sir Robert Peel, and Change of Career--Wells, Cuddesden

Chapter II. Removal to St. Paul's, Oxford--Character of His Ten Year's Pastorate--Accepts the See of Nassau

Chapter III. Arrival in the Bahamas--Blockade-running--Early Visitations--The "Wreckers"--Disendowment Troubles, and first Return to England

Chapter IV. The Bishop on Visitation--General Retrospect of His Missionary Tours in the Out-islands

Chapter V. The Bishop at Home--Conference of West Indian Episcopate at Demerara--Deaths of Revs. Albert Rivers and William Hildyard

Chapter VI. Session of the Church Synod of 1874--Candidates for the Mission-Field--Confession--Public Worship Act--Perilous Visitation Cruise

Chapter VII. Last Visit to England--Death of His Only Daughter--Return to Nassau, and First Session of the New Synod--Attack of Dysentery--Departure for America--New York--Hartford--Death

Chapter VIII. Reception of the Intelligence at Nassau--General Estimate of the Bishop's Character--Conclusion

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