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SERMONS

BY THE

REV. JAMES M'CANN, D.D.,

INCUMBENT OF ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, GLASGOW.

Proceeds to be given to the Organ Fund.

GLASGOW:

JAMES HADDEN, 129 SAUCHIEHALL STREET.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS, HALL COURT

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EXPLANATORY NOTE.

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THE CONGREGATION OF ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH having built a good iron church, at a total cost of £2000, I decided to raise funds, if possible, with which to purchase an Organ. To aid me in this effort, the present series of sermons is issued; and as more than 1000 copies have already been issued in separate numbers, I free from any pecuniary responsibility; while, should any more be purchased in the usual way, they will yield a clear profit. I hope thus gradually to procure some portion of the amount required, and so avoid the disagreeable necessity of soliciting donations for the whole. Regarding the sermons themselves, they are literally only memories of sermons, having been written, for the most part, months after they were preached, aided only by the few notes I used at the time of their delivery, and having been penned in the quietude of the study, away from the stimulating influence of an attentive auditory, they bear the same relation to my spoken discourses that a skeleton does to a living man.

I cannot anticipate that they will escape severe criticism, if criticised at all, because they make no claim to profundity of thought, or elegance of diction; being only simple conceptions simply expressed. But should they be of spiritual advantage to any soul, disregarding all else, I shall be very thankful; and with earnest prayer that they may be thus blessed by God, I have given them to the public.

The views expressed in them may sometimes be opposed to those of men whom to know is an honour and a blessing; but I would ask such to believe that it is not willingly I differ from them; and that, while I may not be able to agree with them on minor points, I am in heart and soul at one with all who, whatever their denomination, can say of Jesus Christ, "My Lord, and my God!"

GLASGOW, August, 1875.

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