SERMONS, PREACHED IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. FEOCK, CORNWALL. BY THE LATE REV. WILLIAM HICHENS, B.A. FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND ASSISTANT CURATE OF ST. FEOCK. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE; & J. H. PARKER, OXFORD. 1851. 100.00.77. PREFACE. THE Sermons contained in this volume were written by their lamented Author amidst the every-day calls of ministerial duty, and without the most remote idea of publication. The original intention was to print a few for private circulation and distribution amongst his late parishioners, to whom he had endeared himself by the faithfulness and zeal with which he had laboured amongst them. He had just completed the residence of two years,, on the curacy to which he had been ordained, when, after a short, but severe illness, he was called away, and entered into his rest in the twenty-sixth year of his age. At Oxford he obtained high honours, and was elected from St. John's to a Fellowship at Exeter College but a short time before his death. Possessed of high intellectual powers, his character was strikingly retiring and unassuming. He de |