The first six of the following discourses, together with a series of sermons on the Apostles' Creed, were composed several years ago in the ordinary course of parochial duty, and preached to the congregation of the Episcopal Church at Pittsburgh, with which the author was happily connected during the greater part of his ministerial life. They were subsequently delivered in Trinity Church, Boston, and, by special request, in St. Paul's Church of the same city. A strong desire that they should be published, was kindly expressed to the author by the leading members of the two first mentioned Churches, some of whom have since departed, as he trusts, to the Christian's rest: but the vestry of St. Paul's were pleased to manifest their wishes by a regular request, communicated to the author by their Secretary, in a form which not only demanded his grateful acknowledgments, but also called for his most serious consideration. Previous to his forming any conclusion, his removal to