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LETTERS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY

THE REV. JAMES CAUGHEY,

OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA.

VOL. II.

FOURTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

ROBERT PILTER, HUDDERSFIELD.

1845.

PREFACE.

PREFACES, there is reason to believe, are not always read; it is not unwise, therefore, to make them as short as possible. They are often, in great part, composed of apologies. People, however, generally choose to read the book, and judge for themselves, independently of what the Author may have alleged in his own excuse.

It is proper, however, to say, that the following Letters were called forth under a variety of circumstances, and penned during the excitement peculiar to great revivals of religion, and amidst frequent interruptions from persons calling to converse upon the affairs of their souls; which may, in some measure, account for the want of finish apparent in the style, as well as for an occasional abruptness of transition from one subject to another.

It is to be hoped, however, that they will appear