The Life of Jacob Gruber
Iiiill,lt i'liiiiiH i,ii'>li|l|l,!ii f; iSilllllilillll II 11, ii "''*^*'''''^!,:!!iiiii!lillili!i Ij^i 'I ,. PW/'^f'l,i! '''^iiiiifrliiiiiiifeh^'''^imm\] ii auii±Lj i, fat.2>aA.a,^<f: l\^V\> 9724 Cornell University Library BX8495.G88 S91 Stricklan Life of Jacob Gruber / by, W-P. 3 1924 029 471 889 olin a Cornell University y Library The original of tliis book is in tlie Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31 924029471 889 _^^^2l^ 4^^*^-fe' tf 'i.^jyO^'i^ THE LIFE JACOB GRTJBER. By W. p. STEICKLAND. THIRD THOUSAND. ^tvo Ij) r k : PUBLISHED BY OAKLTON & PORTER, 200 MULBEEEX-3TEEBT. 1860. 5 A5.eif.vAS. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S60, by CARLTON & PORTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE "Jacob Geuber was a character, and copied after no man," was a remark made by one of his cotemporaries, an aged minister of the Bal- timore Conference, and whoever reads the sketch of his life presented in the following pages will, we think, be fully convinced of the fact. He was himself always and everywhere, and he never lost his individuality as one of the most humorous, witty, and yet withal grave and earnest preachers of his day. We have aimed at giving a faithful portraiture of the man, pre- senting the salient points of his character as they were developed during a ministry of over •half a century ; and as our materials were ample, apart from the recollections of numerous inci- dents connected with his life, furnished by per- sonal friends, the reader need not fear that we 4 PBEFAOE, / have taxed our imagination to fill up the pic- ture.
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