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Upwards of sixty Clergymen, of five Christian denominations, and belonging to sixteen different States, most of whom are well known to the public as authors, have allowed the Editor to expect from them Sermons for this work. NOTICE. The numbers of the National Preacher for the current year are stereotyped, and any or all of the numbers may be had in any quantity, at a reduced price, by those who may wish them for gratuitous circulation. NUMBERS XXXV. 16, 17, 18.-If a man smite another with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer ; the murderer shall surely be put to death. Or if he smite him with an hand-weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. SCARCE any feature of the Bible is more remarkably divine than its peculiar estimate of the worth and sacredness of man. This book was written in ages when men were, to a great extent, regarded by their kind as fellow foragers with beasts of burden or fellow foes with beasts of prey. The mighty mass of men, with the exception of here and there a Nimrod, a Pharaoh, and a Xerxes, were exceedingly degraded, their lives not otherwise valued than as they might avail to waste and destroy in war, or in times of peace hew wood and raw water, and h ̈ tombs and pyramids for their masters. A gran |