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present volume forms part of a long series of Sermons, but has a certain completeness in itself, and is, perhaps, intelligible without reference to what preceded or followed. Almost the whole of the volume is printed from the notes of Mr Leighton, an accomplished phonographer; only the three latter sermons were written out by myself. I have often been asked to repeat this portion of the series, but prefer to lay it before a larger public than a merely spoken word can reach.