IN AID OF FAITH

BY

LYMAN ABBOTT.

NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET

1886

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT,

BY E. P. DUTTON & CO.

1886.

PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO., NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.

DEDICATION.

TO THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE PRESIDENT,

ALICE E. FREEMAN, PH.D.

THEIR INTEREST IN SOME OF THE THOUGHTS EMBODIED IN THESE
CHAPTERS, WHEN DELIVERED IN THE FORM OF

A COURSE OF LECTURES IN THEIR COLLEGE CHAPEL,
INDUCED ME TO PUBLISH THEM FOR A WIDER,

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