Excerpt from The Life and Writings of William Law Symonds And during his occupancy of the pulpit, - for about six months, in 1861, at first in Boston and its vicinity, after ward at C hicopee, near Springfield, Massachusetts, - he wrote and delivered many sermons and lectures. The selec tion of h'is writings that has been made for this book, by its editor, will, it is hoped, serve to exhibit the dignity of character, the sweetness of temperament, the opulence of learning, the discipline of mind, the penetrative lucidity of thought, and the felicity of style for which Mr. Symonds was remarkable, and, - above all, - will display that grand desire, which was the absorbing passion of all his life and the fervid impulse of all his conduct, to promote happiness by the diffusion of religious enthusiasm; the celestial emotion not resident in dogmas and ceremonies, but in the practical living of the spiritual life which, as he believed, beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.