003 Prefatory Note

PREFATORY NOTE.

Some subjects of religious meditation are always timely, and standard thoughts upon them the most timely. Such, it is hoped, will be found to be the character of the following pages. A portion of them have been delivered as a sermon, in the Chapel of the Andover Theological Seminary, and several times elsewhere. Evidences of their usefulness in that form have been so obvious, that the author is induced to comply with the repeated requests which have reached him, that they should be given to the press. That they should be much enlarged in the course of revision for this purpose, is almost the necessary result of a review of a subject so prolific, and so vital to Christian hearts.

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ANDOVER, MASS., DEC. 1859.