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“Agreeably popularizes much that is fundamental in theories of life and thought. The American people owe much of their progress, their optimism, and we may say their happiness to the absorption of just such ideals as Professor Raymond stands for.”—Minneapolis Book Review Digest.
Suggestions for the Spiritual Life—College Chapel Talks. 8vo, cloth. Net, $1.50; by mail, $1.63
“Sermons of more than usual worth, full of thought of the right kind, fresh, strong, direct, manly.... Not one seems to strain to get a young man’s attention by mere popular allusions to a student environment. They are spiritual, scriptural; of straight ethical import, meeting difficulties, confirming cravings, amplifying tangled processes of reasoning, and not forgetting the emotions.”—Hartford Theological Seminary Record (Congregationalist).
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