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Quiet Resting Places.

AND OTHER SERMONS

BY

ALEXANDER RALEIGH, D.D.

CANONBURY

EIGHTH EDITION

EDINBURGH

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

MDCCCLXXIII

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PREFACE.

HESE Sermons have been drawn from the

THESE

Author by the importunity of friends. He has been slow to yield to their desire, because he knows how much there is in a sermon which cannot be published. If it is true, it is “a building of God" for the time, "not made with hands ;" and neither hands nor pens can preserve it. "The grace of the fashion of it perisheth," or survives only in the memory and life of the hearer. The elastic obedient words seem cooled and hardened on the printed page. Scarcely any attempt has been made to compensate in any way-by alteration of structure or addition of thought—for this inevitable loss. These Sermons were written for preaching in the ordinary course of the author's ministry, and they are now published nearly as they were written. This has been done advisedly, and the Author will achieve all he hopes and wishes, if

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