INTRODUCTION. 



SOME of the readers of the following Lectures 

 might wish to be informed what induced the 

 Author to write and deliver them to the 

 Brighton Fishermen. It may, therefore, be stated, 

 that the occupation of these men kept them very 

 frequently for days together at sea, often on 

 Sundays. The consequence was, that they be- 

 came much neglected, both as to their temporal 

 as well as their spiritual improvement. Indeed, 

 there was a time when a part of the beach at 

 Brighton exhibited a scene of quarrelling, swear- 

 ing, and drunkenness, such as was seldom wit- 

 nessed. It is far different now, for, owing to 

 the exertions of some benevolent persons, an 

 arch, capable of containing about eighty persons. 



