FOOTNOTES:
[1] From "Plymouth Pulpit Sermons." By permission of the Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society.
[2] From Dr. Hitchcock's book of the same title by permission of the publishers. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
[3] The following stanza from Dean Alford's grand hymn appears upon the last page of this, the last sermon written by Dr. Hitchcock. By a singular coincidence it was the stanza especially selected to be sung in the burial service at Dr. Hitchcock's funeral, altho in entire ignorance of its existence in the manuscript.
[4] Printed by permission of Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons, Publishers.