ON THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSONS FOR 1876. BY THE MONDAY CLUB. "There being two things in sermons, the one informing, HERBERT'S COUNTRY PARSON. BOSTON: LOCKWOOD, BROOKS AND COMPANY, 381 WASHINGTON STREET. 1876. PREFACE. THE origin of this volume is briefly told. Some of us have felt the want of such a help in Sabbath School work. We were encouraged by experienced pastors and teachers to believe that in preparing it we should supply a need. The plan now executed was proposed. We ventured. That some errors have crept in, some faults or fancies of exegesis been admitted, is still possible. We are not satisfied. We have done what we could under the full pressure of parish labors. It was proposed at first to make a book to cover the lessons of six months. We were advised that the present plan would be more satisfactory. In instances, two and even three topics are treated in one sermon. We trust that this will be found, in all cases, an advantage to the discussions. The volume having been prepared and revised by joint authorship, is issued as the work of the Club. We preferred to be personally unknown in our work, but at the urgent request of our publishers we give our names. Such as it is, so prepared, by so many pens, under difficulties so peculiar, of which perhaps the greatest was the |