Cordial Good wishes of Anschrann der s Graven

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My Roswell Foster Templetor Jany ~ 1885)

"O thou true Eastern Star !

Saviour! atoning Lord! where'er we roam,
Draw still our hearts to thee, else, else how vain
Their hope, the fair lost birthright to regain!"

THIRD EDITION.

MRS. HEMANS.

BOSTON:

WALKER, WISE, & CO.,

245 WASHINGTON STREET.

1860.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by
WM. CROSBY AND H. P. NICHOLS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa-
chusetts.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THERE are many in our congregations, who are withheld from participating in the communion, by causes which a fair consideration of the subject would be likely to remove. There are others, probably, who unite in the ordinance from a sense of duty, but to whom it is not as interesting and improving as it ought to be, through the difficulty of directing the current of the thoughts, and developing the religious feelings. This little volume is an attempt to meet, in some humble degree, the spiritual wants of these two classes. It is composed of materials, in part written for the purpose, and in part prepared for the pulpit in the course of the author's ministry. A few pieces in verse are inserted, none of which have before been published.