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WHOM PRIESTS AND LEVITES SACRAMENTALLY 'PASS BY,

AND SEEKS TO SOOTHE AND HEAL AND BLESS THEM THAT ARE

READY TO PERISH:

WITH ADMIRATION FOR HIS UNSURPASSED INTEGRITY,

HIS COURAGE WHICH NOTHING SCARES,

AND HIS TRUE RELIGION

THAT WOULD BRING PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD-WILL TO MAN,

THESE VOLUMES

ARE THANKFULLY DEDICATED

BY HIS MINISTER AND FRIEND,

THEODORE PARKER.

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PREFACE.

I HAVE collected in these volumes several Speeches, Addresses and occasional Sermons, which I have delivered at various times during the last seven years. Most of them were prepared for some special emergency: only two papers, that on "The Relation of Jesus to his Age and the Ages," and that on "Immortal Life," were written without reference to some such emergency. All of them have been printed before, excepting the sermon "Of General Taylor," and the address on "The American Scholar;" some have been several times reprinted. I do not know that they are worthy of republication in this permanent form, but the leading ideas of these volumes are very dear to me, and are sure to live as long as the human race shall continue. So I have published a small edition, hoping that the truths which I know are contained in these pages will do a service long after the writer, and the occasion of their utterance, have passed off and been forgot. I offer them to whom they may concern.

THEODORE PARKER.

AUGUST 24, 1851.

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