William MBaker Boston

March 18737

AND

OCCASIONAL SERMONS,

BY

THEODORE PARKER,

MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

HORACE B. FULLER,

14 BROMFIELD STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

THEODORE PARKER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS or VOLUME II.

I.

A SERMON OF THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF BOSTON.-

Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, February 18, 1849

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II.

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE MOST CHRISTIAN USE of the

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SUNDAY. A Sermon preached at the Melodeon, on Sun-

day, January 30, 1848

III.

A SERMON OF IMMORTAL LIFE. - Preached at the Melo-

deon on Sunday, September 20, 1846

IV.

THE PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE.· An Address

delivered before the Onondaga Teachers' Institute at Syra-

cuse, New York, October 4, 1849

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105

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V.

THE POLITICAL DESTINATION OF AMERICA, AND THE

THE TIMES. An Address delivered before

SIGNS OF

several literary Societies in 1848