MORAL ASPECTS

OF

CITY LIFE.

A SERIES OF LECTURES

BY

REV. E. H. CHAPIN.

NEW YORK:

HENRY LYON, 548 BROADWAY.

AUBURN V. KENYON, 96 GENESEE-STREET.

BOSTON A. TOMPKINS, 38 CORNHILL.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the Year One Thousand

Eight Hundred and Fifty-three, by HENRY LYON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

SOME who may read this volume will, perhaps, differ from me in respect to its themes, and the method of their treatment, so far as the pulpit and the Sabbath are concerned. I can only say that the moral significance which I detect in these subjects is stated in the first discourse, and my own ideas of the latitude of pulpit discussion, will be found, sufficiently qualified, as I think, in the sixth. It has been my object, at least, to arouse my hearers from the indifference of custom, to a recognition of the spiritual suggestions, the duties, the illimitable relations, which are involved with every aspect of their daily lot-to show them the argument for religion and for a religious life, which comes to them not merely from the pulpit and from the peculiar associations of the Sabbath,