Excerpt from Fireside Lectures for Sabbath Evenings
It is with these impressions, that the pres ent humble offering is yielded; hoping that in some homes and some hearts it will find a welcome, to their several spiritual advantage. While the themes are suitable for the closet, or for public religious assemblies, they seem specially so for the social gathering on Sab bath evening. Should the subjects, as thus treated, prove appropriate to the purpose, the object of the title will be apparent, and its application also be approved.