WM. PEIRCE has for sale the following works by the Author of " Sermons from the Birds and Lilies." SERMONS FOR CHILDREN, 3 vols. APPEAL TO THE TEMPERATE. TEMPERANCE AND RELIGION: or the best means and highest end of the Temperance Reformation. FREEDOM OF THE MIND, demanded of American Freemen, being Lectures to the Lyceum. THE TELESCOPE, or sacred views of things past, present, and to come— CONTENTS. The Voice of the Grave: or, Youthful Forecast. A Vision of the Last Night in the Year. The Heir of the World. Philadelphia, and the Sunday School Union. The Field of Death. New York, and the American Bible Society. The Box Opened. The Heir of Heaven. London; a Retrospect of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The Ganges, and the Mississippi. NOTICES. The following notices, (among many others,) have been received of the "Sermons from the Fowls of the Air, and the Lilies of the Field." "It is no unimportant lesson which this little volume is intended to inculcate. It teaches, what is very apt to be forgotten, that the voice of religion is not heard alone in the temples of public worship, nor its light alone kindled in the secret retreats of devotion: but that this light is gloriously reflected from every page of the great book of nature, and this voice uttered, with commanding power, in the vast temple of the world around us. The work is entitled, "Sermons from the Fowls of the Air and the Lilies of the Field, or lessons of faith beside the common path of life." There are many who believe, that religious faith cannot wander in these paths without losing something of its heavenly nature: that to be indifferent to earthly things is the beginning of piety; and that the only way to preserve that piety unstained and unimpaired, is by withdrawing one's self, as much as possible, from the daily discipline of the world. The doctrine of the author is, that we do not learn from the gospel, to consider leisure or retirement as the best school of piety; that life, in all its right employments, is most truly such that nothing which men ought to do, lies without the school for heaven. This doctrine is enforced in his sermons, with much fertility of illustration, unaffected earnestness, and simple eloquence."- Boston Daily Advertiser. : "I have just laid down a little volume, which has delighted me so much that I am very desirous many others should take it up. I shall attempt no analysis of the little work which now lies before me. It may suffice to say, that its subject is one of the most beautiful passages of the Sermon on the Mount, and that the author appears to have drunk largely into the spirit of that divine discourse. Those who read it with attention, (and there is originality enough even on so familiar a subject, to require and to reward attention,) will not only be assisted to hear and interpret the "still small voice" of the birds and flowers, but find "Books in the running brooks, tongues in the trees, As I understand you have the work for sale, I send you this brief notice of it, unsolicited, that, if possible, I may contribute something toward the extensive usefulness for which I think it happily calculated. Yours, &c. New London, Oct. 27, 1834. PRO. DANIEL HUNTINGTON. |