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HENRY PERKINS, 134 CHESTNUT STREET.

BOSTON: PERKINS & MARVIN.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HENRY PERKINS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of

Pennsylvania.

PRINTED BY T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS.

STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON......PHILADELPHIA.

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INTRODUCTION.

THE following work on Prayer was submitted to me in manuscript by the author for my perusal, before it was committed to the press. It may be proper to state that it has been prepared amidst the duties of an industrious calling, demanding necessarily nearly the entire hours of the day. It has been written during the intervals which could be secured from active duties; and by practising much self-denial.

I have examined the work in manuscript, and as it has passed through the press, with deep and growing interest, and with increasingly augmented convictions of its utility, and of the ability with which it is written. Some of the characteristics of the work, I think, will be found to be the following.

1. It is designed to be an outline of the subjects of prayer. It is not intended to be used as a form of devotion; but to contain the leading sentiments on the various topics of prayer, which it might be desirable to employ. It had its origin in the author's own sense of the need of such a work when he became a professor of religion. In his private devotions, as well as in his public prayers, he deeply felt then the desirableness of some such manual, that would suggest the appropriate language, and the appropriate trains of thought, on the various topics of prayer. This deeply-felt necessity in his own

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