Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by PARRY AND MCMILLAN in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA: T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS. 24 Oct 34 Bond 89715 1856 SEP 22 1933 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHERS. IN presenting this work to the American public, the publishers desire to intimate that it is printed verbatim from the edition which has been issued from the Cambridge press in England, and edited with great care from the manuscripts of the author, with the exception of two sermons, which have been omitted in consequence of their special character. It has long been the practice in Dublin to select some of the most eloquent clergymen of the Irish Establishment to preach the annual sermons on behalf of the different charities of that city. Professor Butler was often called to discharge that duty. Several of the sermons here given will show how it was performed by him. Those omitted refer to the subject of education in Ireland as conducted by the Government, and as they are to a certain extent national or sectional, it has been thought unadvisable to enlarge the volume by their reproduction in this country. It is unnecessary here to expatiate on the character of these sermons. For eloquence, beauty of illustration, richness of imagery, intense fervor, deep spirituality, profound piety, and lucid exhibition of the great truths of Revelation, they will be found to take rank with the highest productions of modern theological literature. The North British Review (February 1856), in noticing these sermons, justly says: "From the list now given, we must select for more special notice the name of one destined, if we mistake not, to take the highest place among writers of our English tongue-whose sermons we would recommend to 875172 |