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PREFACE.

ation" having passed through ten editions, "Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality" through fourteen, and "The Fourth Gospel, the Heart of Christ," through nine.

We call special attention also to this other fact, that, in none of the works herein quoted, and in none of the extracts from more than a hundred letters, is there the least manifestation of a narrow, bigoted, or sectarian spirit, or of a purpose to disturb existing ecclesiastical relations; but instead of this the grand catholicity of the Gospel of our Lord, and an earnest desire for that unity among Christians of whatever name, which is sure to result from the due exaltation of charity above faith, character above creed, life above doctrine.

B. F. B.

Germantown, Pa.,
Sept. 28th, 1891.