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LETTERS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY

THE REV. JAMES CAUGHEY,

OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

ROBERT PILTER, HUDDERSFIELD.

1846.

210. i. 494.

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PREFACE.

I HAVE had

my fears that this Volume will not make its appearance in accordance with the time announced in the prospectus. Should this be the case, the fault is not with the Printer.

The Pro

prietors of the book have been making arrangements to insert the portrait of the Author. Some unforeseen difficulties, it seems, have occurred on account of the plate being too large for the Volume, which will take some time and trouble to remedy.

The Printer is now calling out for the Preface. Such has been my extreme hurry owing to other more important matters, that I have felt half inclined to let the work go forth without the accustomed bow to the Public.

This Volume contains the remainder of the observations made during my tour on the Continent, in 1843. The reason they were not inserted in the

last Volume was, that the Letters did not appear to me sufficiently interesting to crowd them all together into one book. Besides, I considered the Letters substituted in their place more likely to be profitable to my readers, being upon religious subjects; and more in keeping, perhaps, with my character as a minister of Christ. Towards the close of the Second Volume, are a few of the first Letters in the above tour. The favourable reception which they have received from many readers, has induced me to print the residue with more confidence.

Several Letters in the present Volume treat on revivals of religion. Those in which there are some statements relative to the manner in which the Author was led to adopt a revival method of preaching, will not, it is hoped, be unacceptable to the reader. For the defence of those revivals of "pure religion," which have been characteristic of Methodism from the beginning, the writer, while he lives, will ever feel himself "in duty bound" to lift up his voice. As it regards those extraordinary effusions of the Holy Spirit, with which he has stood so closely

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