CHALMERIANA;

OR,

COLLOQUIES WITH DR. CHALMERS,

AUTHOR OF

"EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY," AND 'ASTRONOMICAL SERMONS."

BY

JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN.

1853.

141. C. 136.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following interesting Colloquies with the celebrated DR. CHALMERS were written by MR. JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY. The name of

DR. CHALMERS, and their intrinsic value, render

further introduction unnecessary.

November, 1853.

CHALMERIANA.

PART I.

Edinburgh, 9th Month 13th, 1830.

My wife and I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Thomas Chalmers (author of "Evidences of Christianity," ""Civic Economy of Large Towns," "Astronomical and Commercial Sermons," &c. ; and now Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh,) at Samuel Hoare's, soon after the last yearly meeting; and I now purpose to record some few particulars of our communications with him there, and in this city, not excluding some other dramatis personæ, in whom we have been interested; chiefly persons with whom we have enjoyed some profitable, mental, and intellectual intercourse,

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