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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

WILLIAM V. SPENCER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
19 Spring Lane.

Presswork by John Wilson and Son.

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THESE Sermons, having been mostly written in the

this war.

course of the great American conflict of freedom against slavery, are necessarily frequent in allusions to Surrounded with those whose sons, brothers, and friends were fighting and falling on so many bloody fields, this dark background is seen behind the figures in each discourse.

I suppose that repetition of ideas and thoughts may be sometimes noticed by the reader. Such repetition is a defect in works of pure theory or intellectual science; but, in practical and spiritual works, we need, as in music, frequent variations on the same themes.

The present edition differs only from the previous one, in omitting the last discourse, on the "Diary of 1863," and adding those on "Relation of Christ to the Soul," "The Man of Sin," "Melchizedek and his Moral," "Negative and Positive Religion," "Weeds,”

"The Summer is Ended," and "God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."

For the favor with which this volume of Sermons (preached to the Church of the Disciples in the regular course of duty) has been received, I feel grateful, and hope the new edition will meet a like reception. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.

BOSTON, April, 1868.

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