THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

161705

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833,

BY JAMES LORING,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

ΤΟ

MY PARENTS,

THE REV. FRANCIS WAYLAND,

AND

MRS. SARAH WAYLAND,

OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE,

BY THEIR SON

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

THE MORAL DIGNITY OF THE MISSIONARY ENTER
PRISE: A Discourse delivered before the Boston
Baptist Foreign Mission Society, on the Evening of
October 26, 1823,

THE DUTIES OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN: Two Dis-
courses delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House
in Boston, on Thursday, April 7, 1825; the Day of
Public Fast,

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THE DEATH OF THE EX-PRESIDENTS, July 4, 1826:

A Discourse delivered in the First Baptist Meeting

House in Boston, the week following their decease, 80

THE CERTAIN TRIUMPH OF THE REDEEMER: A Dis-
course delivered in the Murray Street Church, New
York, on the Evening of May 9, 1830, .

ENCOURAGEMENTS TO RELIGIOUS EFFORT: A Dis-

course delivered in Philadelphia, at the Request of the

American Sunday School Union, May 25, 1830, .. 132

THE MORAL EFFICACY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE

ATONEMENT: A Discourse delivered on the Evening

of February 3, 1831, in the First Baptist Meeting

House in Boston, at the Installation of the Rev.

William Hague,

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ELEVATED ATTAINMENTS IN PIETY ESSENTIAL TO A

SUCCESSFUL STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES: A Dis-

course delivered in the Oliver Street Meeting House,

New York, on the Evening of December 17, 1832, at

the Ordination of Mr. William R. Williams,

THE ABUSE OF THE IMAGINATION,

MOTIVES TO BENEFICENCE: A Discourse delivered in

the Old South Church, Boston, before the Howard

Benevolent Society,

OBJECTIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST CRUCIFIED

CONSIDERED: A Discourse Delivered in Portland, at

the Ordination of the Rev. John S. Maginnis, Sep-

tember 27, 1832, .

DISCOURSE ON EDUCATION: An Introductory Address
delivered in Boston, before the Convention of Teach-
ers, and other Friends of Education, assembled to
form the American Institute of Instruction, August
19, 1830,

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANALOGY: A Discourse delivered
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Rhode Island,
September 7, 1831,.

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ADDRESS ON TEMPERANCE: An Address delivered
before the Providence Association for the Promotion
of Temperance, October 20, 1831,

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