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LIFE

OF

SAMUEL J. LEVICK

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LATE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Prefer the Lord's interest, and He will make thy way prosperous"

-STEPHEN Crisp

PHILADELPHIA

WILLIAM H. PILE'S SONS, PRINTERS, 422 WALNUT STREET

1896

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PREFACE.

More than two years ago the manuscripts of Samuel J. Levick were, by his family, placed in my hands with the request that they be prepared for publication.

On looking over these papers it was discovered that--excepting the letters-they had nearly all been written before he was twenty-five years of age; thus leaving the last forty years of his full life to be accounted for by others, in the absence of records made by his own pen. It is true that the "Correspondence" has furnished us with way-marks-though some of them far apart-up to his last decade, and during this period the annual reports of the societies with which he was connected have enabled us to note his activity and usefulness in secular affairs, while the minutes of the Monthly Meeting point to religious service away from home.

It should be borne in mind that our valued friend-though he wielded a facile pen-was a thinker, a speaker, and a worker, rather than a writer; and that during those forty years his time was so fully occupied that he had little leisure for using his pen except in response to the demands of business, of friendship and of affection.

The arrangement of the matter, as will be observed, is by subjects rather than by dates; for as Samuel J. Levick was a many-sided man it seemed desirable to present the different sides in such a way that one would not obstruct nor interfere with the view of another. The order of time, though thus made secondary, is followed as far as is practicable under each of the subjects. The domestic life, the social life, the business life, the philanthropic and humane work must all be taken into account, as well the commission to proclaim the Gospel.'

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