CHRISTIANITY APPLIED TO OUR CIVIL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS. BY HUBBARD WINSLOW, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PEIRCE, PRESS OF WEBSTER AND SOUTHARD. 1835. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, BY WILLIAM PEIRCE, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts. PREFACE. The following discourses are not a connected series, though all of them aim at the same priuciple. As they touch upon subjects of agitating interest, and have occassioned severe strictures, it is thought best to give them to the public in their original form. The author has a high esteem for many who differ from him respecting the most Christian way of treating certain subjects tending to alienations in church and state, especially masonry and slavery. But it is hoped that we all have in view the same good object; let us then speak out our views freely and in love. Now that the excitement of the moment is over, if, on reading and calmly pondering the sentiments of these discourses, any Christian brethren are justly grieved or offended, none will more regret it than the author, by whom, with fervent prayer for the divine blessing upon them, they are presented to THE PUBLIC. |