BY CHARLES W. UPHAM,
Junior Pastor of the First Church in Salem.

BOSTON,

CARTER, HENDEE AND BABCOCK.

M DCCC XXXI.

Les 12750.15.1

2048

5 1941

ENTERED according to Act of Congress in the year 1831,

BY CARTER, HENDER AND BABCOCK,

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

PREFACE.

THE following lectures were originally prepared for delivery in the Salem Lyceum. They have been repeated before similar associations in Marblehead, in Beverly, in South Danvers, in North Danvers, in Waltham, in Gloucester, in Haverhill, in Lynn and in Topsfield. A large part of what appears in this volume was necessarily omitted in the delivery. Several considerations, in co-operation with requests made from various quarters, both in public and in private, have induced the author to offer them to the community at large through the press.

The subject of which they treat is intimate