The Life in Common, and Twenty Other Sermons Preached in the South Congregational Church, Boston

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... From Thanksgiving to Fast. FIFTEEN SERMONS BV EDWARD E. HALE. THE GREAT HARVEST YEAR, LOOKING BACK, RITUAL, PRAYER, RESPECTABILITY, YOURSELVES, WHAT IT IS TO BE CATHOLIC, THE JOY OF LIFE, THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES, THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE, LENT, NEW LIFE, BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST, THE FUTURE OF NEW ENGLAND. Price in paper covers, $1.00; in cloth binding, $1.25. A second series (of fifteen) of Mr. Hale's sermons is now being issued, of which there have already been printed THE LIFE IN COMMON, BODY, MIND, AND SOUL, BODILY TRAINING, MENTAL DISCIPLINE, CANDOR IN THE PULPIT, SPIRITUAL EXERCISES. Price, 10 cents per copy, or $1.00 for the series. Published by GEO. H. ELLIS, 101 Milk Street, Boston. HAPPY HOMES. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, ROXBURY, JULY 20, 1879, AND AT THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, NEW YORK, AUGUST 24, 1879, BY EDWARD E. HALE. BOSTON: GEO. H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 101 MILK STREET. Press Of Geo. H. Ellis, Ioi Milk Street. HAPPY HOMES. Of a hundred novels tracing the fortunes of young life, ninety-nine end in the happy establishment of a home. Hunted up and down through a thousand dangers, terrified here and terrified there, a young happy husband and his young happy wife struggle out at the end of all traps and all surprises, and turn to smile their sweetest on the reader as they look their last on him, just as they open the door which is to admit them into the untold blessings of a happy home. Thus precisely does the novel, --that great revealer of life in its passions, its intentions, and its successes, --thus precisely does the novel show what is the chief and central work and duty of life, --the creation of a happy home. To the same effect one of our leading statesmen speaks: They will tell you, says Mr. Fr...