DEDICATION.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED

PROF. R. J. W. BUCKLAND, D.D.,

AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL

HISTORY IN ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,

WHO, NOT LONG BEFORE HIS DECEASE, WROTE

ME HE WAS WORKING TO PROVE THE

PERPETUITY OF BAPTIST CHURCHES

FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO

THE PRESENT;

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED

J. R. GRAVES, LL.D.,

TO WHOM, MORE THAN TO ANY OTHER MAN OF THIS AGE, THE BAPTISTS

ARE INDEBTED FOR FAITHFULNESS TO DENOMINATIONAL TRUTH AND

FOR DENOMINATIONAL CONSISTENCY ; AND

TO MY DEAR WIFE,

WHO HAS, IN THE MASTER S SPIRIT, SO HEROICALLY

HELPED ME BEAR THE LABORS AND THE

SACRIFICES, IN GETTING THIS BOOK OUT,

I AFFECTIONALLY DEDICATE IT.

W A. J.