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 TO THE REV. DR. SPENCER:

The undersigned having listened, with much pleasure and as we hope profit, to the Sermon which you delivered yesterday morning, most respectfully request a copy of the same for publication, believing that much good may be done to the cause of Religion and Law, by the dissemination of the truths expressed therein.

Brooklyn, Monday, Nov. 25, 1850.

ISAAC

JASPER CORNING, FRANCIS H. ABBOTT, LEBBEITS CHAPMAN,

DEMING,

F.

GEORGE

A.

A. M.

WM.

A. TALBOT, FENBY, THOMAS COCHRAN, WM. BARBOUR, B.

J.

TRASK, H. PRENTICE, WALDO HUTCHINS, A. G.

JOHN

HOPKINS, JARVIS BRUSH,

SUMNER STONE, JOSEPH STEELE, JAS. McLean, J. C. MEEKER,

P. LORD, CORNING,

THOS. BAYLIS, K.

BUSHNELL,

E. L,

BROWN,

GEORGE

W.

FIELD,

T. HUBBARD, RICHARD W. HUBBARD,

L.

H. K.

M. HARRIS,

SAMUEL

WICKHAM,

N.

MARVIN,

S.

R. R.

SAMUEL HUTCHINSON, WM. H. AMES,

S.

OTIS,

ALANSON TRASK, CHARLES CLARK, JOHN T. LAWRENCE,

BROWN,

J.

S.

P'lERSON,

JENNINGS, Jr., W. DeLAMATER, W. SPENCER,

M. S. GOODMAN, JAS. AVILDE, Jr.,

A. G. B.

GEO. A. TOWNSEND, DAVID B. BAYLIS,

J. C.

HENRY W. BARNES,

A.

ELI MERRILL, W. M. SANDS,

HENRY ROWLAND, WM. BULLARD, JN.

To Jasper Corning,

BULLARD,

Esq., and

DURYEA, CRITTENDEN,

Jr.

others



—The sermon which you have requested,

Gentlemen^

prepared without a single thought of other duties,

than

my

I

submit

to

its

your disposal

publication,

and amid a pressure of your judgment


 * — governed more by

owti, in reference to its fitness for the press.

Yours, very truly, I.

Brooklyn, Nov. 26, 1850.

S.

SPENCER.