BOSTON:
HORACE B. FULLER,
(Successor to Walker, Fuller, and Company,)
245, WASHINGTON STREET.
1867.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
THEODORE PARKER,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.
I.
A Sermon of the Spiritual Condition of Boston.—Preached
at the Melodeon, on Sunday, February 18, 1849 PAGE 1
II.
Some Thoughts on the Most Christian Use of the
Sunday.—A Sermon preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday,
January 30, 1848 56
III.
A Sermon of Immortal Life.—Preached at the Melodeon
on Sunday, September 20, 1846 105
IV.
The Public Education of the People.—An Address
delivered before the Onondaga Teachers' Institute at Syracuse,
New York, October 4, 1849 139
V.
The Political Destination of America, and the
Signs of the Times.—An Address delivered before
[Pg iv]several literary Societies in 1848 198
VI.
A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of John
Quincy Adams.—Delivered at the Melodeon, on Sunday,
March 5, 1848 252
VII.
A Speech at a Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, to Celebrate the Abolition of
Slavery by the French Republic, April 6, 1848 331
VIII.
A Speech at Faneuil Hall, before the New England
Anti-Slavery Convention, May 31, 1848 344
IX.
Some Thoughts on the Free Soil Party, and the
Election of General Taylor, December, 1848 360
Last Sunday I said something of the moral condition of Boston; to-day Iask your attention to a Sermon of the Spiritual Condition of Boston. Iuse the word spiritual in its narrower sense, and speak of the conditionof this town in respect to piety. A little while since, in a sermon ofpiety, I tried to show that love of God lay at the foundation of allmanly excellence, and was the condition of all noble, manly