Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care BOSTON: GRAY AND BOWEN. CAMBRIDGE: HILLIARD AND BROWN. M DCCC XXXI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, by Hilliard & Brown, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY, 199789 DEC -1 1915 ск W22 PREFACE. 4831 In presenting to the religious public this little book, the writer has only to say, that he undertook it because he thought that a work of this character was needed and would be welcome. During his active ministry he had often felt the want of a book on personal religion different, in some respects, from any which had fallen in his way; and when compelled by ill health to relinquish his pastoral cares, he attempted to beguile some of the languid hours of a weary convalescence by efforts at composing such an one. The result has come very far short of the idea which he had formed in his mind. The book was written at α |