ON THE PUBLIC MEANS OF GRACE; THE FASTS AND FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH; ON SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS, AND Various Practical Subjects. By the late RIGHT REV.THEODORE DEHON, D.D. RECTOR OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHUCRH, CHARLESTON; And Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocess of South-Carolina. District of South-Carolina, to wit SEAL. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the second day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and in the forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Mrs. Sarah Dehon, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof she claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace; the Fasts and Festivals of the Church; on Scripture Characters and Various Practical Subjects. By the late Right Rev. Theodore Dehon, D. D. Rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston; and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocess of South-Carolina. In Two Volumes." In conformity with the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JAMES JERVEY, The profits arising from the sale of this edition, will be applied to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South-Carolina. 882 D323pm vil ANDOVER ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Discourses were written for Parochial use, without any view to their future publication. The delight with which they were heard by an affectionate congregation, and the great importance of the subjects they discuss, made it desirable that their usefulness should be further increased by their publication. With this view, they now appear, at the particular solicitation of the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South-Carolina. Had the learned Author been spared, to have revised them for the Press, they would have appeared under more favourable circumstances; but, notwithstanding the disadvantages of a posthumous publication, they will be found highly interesting and useful. The warmth of piety which glows in every page; the benevolent feelings which, every where, are expressed for the souls of men; the purity of the doctrine, and the eloquence of many, will insure for them a favour |