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THOUGHTS ON MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE. By Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Second Edition, revised. 16mo. pp. 302. Price, 62-1/2 cents.
This book has met with a ready sale in this country, and has been republished in England. A London periodical, in reviewing it, says:—"We will venture to predict that it will soon take its place on the shelves of our religious libraries, beside Ware 'On the Christian Character,' Greenwood's 'Lives of the Apostles,' and other works to which we might refer as standard publications, the value of which is not likely to be diminished by the lapse of time or the caprices of fashion."
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DOMESTIC WORSHIP. By William H. Furness, Pastor of the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Third Edition. 12mo. pp. 272. Price, 75 cents.
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LAYS FOR THE SABBATH. A Collection of Religious Poetry. Compiled by Emily Taylor. Revised, with Additions, by John Pierpont. 16mo. pp. 288. Price, 75 cents.