flntro&uction. 



In deference to the wishes of many friends to 

 have some lasting memorial of Mr. Showers, 

 this volume is issued from the press. 



The sketch of his life, briefly written, in the 

 eloquent language of affection, tells in substance 

 the story of a marked career, too brief according 

 to human thoughts. 



It has fallen to the writer to revise the unpub- 

 lished MSS. for the press. Had the author been 

 spared to do this work, it would have been better 

 done, for the active brain of the writer best 

 knows his own thought, and such work done by 

 another is at best a makeshift. 



The MSS. of the Treatise on Eternal Punish- 

 ment was practically complete. However, the 

 analysis and divisions into parts was made in this 

 office. Possibly the writer would have expanded 

 the concluding chapters before publication. 



The sermon outlines were made solely for the 

 writer's own use, and the reader must expect the 

 divisions would be suggestive of more to the 

 speaker and author than to the reader. They 

 reveal the workings of his mind to a remarkable 

 extent. 



We bespeak for this Memorial Volume the in- 



