T~ " Sunny-Side," and the " Shady-Side," of

Life in a Parsonage, having been given to the world,

and its sympathies, very justly I allow, enlisted on

the Pastor s side, it seems not an undesirable attempt,

nor too presuming an intention, to portray, in a few

sketches, some of the excitements, labors, and trials.

experienced on the PARIsH-SIDE.

This has been here attempted with all reasonable

brevity, and with fairness. The writer has not ar-

rayed the Parish against the minister, but has repre-

sented the two as happily united in the strong, indis-

soluble tie of LOVE, fulfilling the same ends of the

Gospel Church.

It had been an easy matter to produce from some

other society a darker picture, than is fllrnished in the

well-ordered Parish ot Edgefield. For to whom is it