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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS AND LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE, 1796-1827
- CHAPTER II MINISTERIAL AND DOMESTIC. 1827-1839. DRYPOOL AND HIGHBURY
- CHAPTER III LETTERS. 1835-1846. DEATHS OF MISS A. SYKES AND MRS. VENN. RESIGNATION OF ST. JOHN'S, HOLLOWAY
- CHAPTER IV THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V PRIVATE JOURNAL, 1849-1856
- CHAPTER VI PERSONAL TRAITS
- CHAPTER VII LETTERS, 1846-1872
- CHAPTER VIII THE CLOSE
- APPENDIX
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- Contents
- CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS AND LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE, 1796-1827
- CHAPTER II MINISTERIAL AND DOMESTIC. 1827-1839. DRYPOOL AND HIGHBURY
- CHAPTER III LETTERS. 1835-1846. DEATHS OF MISS A. SYKES AND MRS. VENN. RESIGNATION OF ST. JOHN'S, HOLLOWAY
- CHAPTER IV THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
- CHAPTER V PRIVATE JOURNAL, 1849-1856
- CHAPTER VI PERSONAL TRAITS
- CHAPTER VII LETTERS, 1846-1872
- CHAPTER VIII THE CLOSE
- APPENDIX
Summary
Many hindrances, of little concern to the public, have delayed the issue of this memoir. Its preparation was naturally undertaken in the first instance by Mr. Venn's own family, and for a most important and well-executed part of it they are still responsible. The fear of transgressing on the side of panegyric has perhaps restrained them from expressing to the full the admiration which to a stranger would have cost no scruples; but, if the biographical chapter errs in any direction, it only errs in that subdued reticence which to its subject would have been most congenial, and it is no common portrait of a Christian father, friend, and pastor, who brought rare qualifications to a work which he was almost the first to realise under its new conditions and full development.
When, in the course of the memoir, it became necessary to deal with the special work in connection with the administration of the Church Missionary Society, which gradually absorbed all Mr. Venn's time and energies, it was felt that, even at the risk of some lack of unity in the execution, this portion of the narrative might fare best in the hands of some one, if such could be found, who had been associated with him in this work of his life.
His sons accordingly proposed this task to me, as I had been for nearly thirteen years officially attached to the Church Missionary Society, both at home and in the East, and had been through most of that time his confidential coadjutor.
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- Memoir of Henry Venn, B. D.Prebendary of St Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880