"He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good; and
whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he."-Solomon.

REVISED BY THE EDI FORS.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE,

For the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-street.

J. Collord, Printer.
1840.

THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY
163933

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1899.

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by T. Mason and G. Lane, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of NewYork."

TO A. MACDONALD, Esq.

LATE ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

PERMIT me, my dear general, as a feeble testimony of that regard which your long course of kindness and friendship has inspired, to inscribe to you this brief memoir of him who was 66 FIRST IN War, first in PEACE, AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN."

Yours, most truly,

"

Brooklyn, Dec., 1839.

Life of Washington.

S. G. ARNOLD.