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SGaMSG BOW'S €G3mm W0BKS. 



The dealings of G-od, Man, and the Devil; as exemplified in the 

 Life, Experience, and Travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period 

 of over half a century. 



Together with his Polemic and Miscellaneous Writings, com- 

 plete. To which is added, 



THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. By Peggy Dow. 

 " Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." — David. 

 With an Introductory Essay, hy the Rev. John Dowling, D.D., 

 of New York, author of History of Romanism, &c. 



Two volumes in one, Svo., 350 pages. Embossed binding, embel- 

 lished with Steel Portraits of Lorenzo and Peggy Dow. Price 

 $2.50. 



One month he would he heard of laboring for the good of souls, in his 

 own peculiar way, in the neighborhood of his native New England home ; 

 the next, perhaps, braving tbe frost and snow of a Canadian winter ; the 

 next, on his way to Ireland or to England, in the prosecution of the same 

 benevolent purpose ; and six months afterwards, perhaps, encountering 

 the dangers and hardships of a Georgia or Kentucky ■wilderness, or fleeing 

 for his life from the tomahawk or the scalping-knife of the Indian savage, 

 in the then untrodden wilds of the great Valley of the West. 



Pale, sallow, and somewhat consumptive in the appearance of his 

 countenance ; dressed in the plainest attire, with his single-breasted coat, 

 often worn thread-bare — and in his later years wearing a long flowing 

 patriarchal beard ; his whole appearance was such as to awaken a high 

 degree of curiosity and interest. 



Then the suddenness and the promptitude of his advent in a town or vil- 

 lage, at the very hour and minute he had appointed, perhaps some twelve 

 or eighteen months before, the boldness with which he would attack the 

 ruling vices, and denounce wickedness — either in high places or low — 

 the general adaptation of his dry and caustic rebukes to the sin and fol- 

 lies prevalent in the places he visited, and which he seemed to know 

 almost intuitively ; together with the biting sarcasm and strong mother- 

 wit that pervaded his addresses ; — all served to invest the approach to any 

 place of the " crazy preacher," (as he was frequently called), with an air 

 of singular and almost romantic interest. 



Scarcely a neighborhood, from Canada to Georgia, or from the Atlantic 

 to the Mississippi, that has not some tradition to relate, or some tale to 

 tell of the visit and the preaching of Lorenzo Dow ; and scarcely an old 

 man in all those regions that has not some one or more of the witty say 

 ings of Lorenzo Dow to relate to his children and his grand- children. — 

 Extract from the Introduction. 



