DELIVERED IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,

BY

JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY,

TAKEN IN SHORT-HAND.

PHILADELPHIA:

KAY & BROTHER-122 CHESNUT STREET.

1838.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by Edward Hopper, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

NOTE.

In reporting the following Discourses, great care has been taken to preserve the precise language in which they were delivered; but it is due to their distinguished author, to state, that they have not had the benefit of his revision, having been published without his knowledge.