THE

HAPPY CHRISTIAN.

LONDON:

RICHARD CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL

THE

HAPPY CHRISTIAN;

OR,

PIETY THE ONLY FOUNDATION OF TRUE

AND SUBSTANTIAL JOY.

BY

J. B. WATERBURY,

AUTHOR OF ADVICE TO A YOUNG CHRISTIAN.'

REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS.

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,

Instituted 1799

SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW,
AND 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;

AND BY THE BOOKSELLERS.

1839.

PREFACE.

THE unexpected favour with which the religious public received the " ADVICE TO A YOUNG CHRISTIAN" the author's first production-induces the hope that, after the lapse of several years, some additional observations on practical religion, from the same pen, may not be unacceptable.

The

This little book, though designed for all classes of readers, was written, it must be confessed, with an eye rather to the young,whether professors or non-professors. former, it is hoped, may be stimulated by it to greater activity in the divine life; and the latter, by the accompanying conviction of the