SERMONS

ADDRESSED

TO PARENTS, MASTERS, SERVANTS,

AND YOUNG MEN,

BY

JOSIAH BATEMAN, M.A.,

VICAR OF HUDDERSFIELD AND RURAL DEAN.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE;
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.
HUDDERSFIELD: WATERS HARDY, MARKET-PLACE.

1850.

TO THE

CHURCHWARDENS AND PARISHIONERS

Of Huddersfield

THESE SERMONS ARE

MOST RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,

WITH EARNEST PRAYERS

THAT GOD WOULD MAKE THEM PROFITABLE TO ALL,

BUT ESPECIALLY TO

THE CLASSES MORE IMMEDIATELY ADdressed.

Sermon to Parents.

EPHESIANS VI. 4.

"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

There is no earthly connection more important than that which subsists between the parent and the child, and none which in its results leads to greater happiness or misery. We all feel that what we are in maturer years, as to our natural tendencies, is but the development of what we were in childhood, the legitimate consequence of principles then instilled into our minds, or examples set before our eyes. We cannot therefore have a more interesting subject than that which I have now to bring before you as the first of

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