communion with Paul and with Jesus Christ, in the continual and vehement desire for universal redemption! My brethren, the time is short that we can labour in this great work-and yet much remains to be done-much in the worldmuch in the church-much in our own souls. I cannot be willing, for myself, to leave all this work to others; and one more effort, in which I hoped to do good, is now finished and before you. Amen. TO THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK. Unwilling as the author is to trouble the reader with his private history, he deems it proper to state the circumstances in which the following additional discourses were finished. When the impression had proceeded thus far, the printer, who was also publisher, gave notice that additional matter was wanting; not on the ground of an actual deficiency in the size of the work, (the whole number of lectures originally proposed, having been only twelve) but from a miscalculation as to the probable number of pages. He was unwilling to disappoint his subscribers, even by a nominal deficiency. But this notice reached the author at a time of unusual family affliction. His companion was in the last stages of a consumption, and himself already confined for several weeks with an inflammation of the eyes. Thus situated, and within a few days after the severest of all earthly bereavements, by the help of an amenuensis, he has undertaken to revise and prepare the discourses in question. He felt that some |