The Author to the Reader

Friends froquoitly write me, requesting information as to which of j my sermons they could distribute with the greatest hojjc of doing good thereby. To answer that question I have made this selection of twelve from the si.xteen hundred and sixty of my printed discourses; and they are bound together heie just as they were issued in the first instance, without regard to consecutive paging. These discourses have been already sealed with the highest approval, for they have been used by the Holy 8i)irit to lead many to Jesus. The thought of making this selection came io me in my illness, and I have comforted myself with the idea that these soul-saving sermons may thus enter upon a new career of usefulness. I trust it may be so, and that they will go forth still furlher afield to gather home the lost sheep.

C. H. SPt’RGEON.