Excerpt from The Second Spring: A Sermon
Much of the matter Which forms the introduction of this edition appeared in the Anwrican Ecclesiastical Review and is republished here with the kind per mission of its Reverend Editor. Longmans, Green Co. Are the publishers of Ward's Life and Times of Wiseman, and Whyte's Newman; Charles Scribner's Sons, of Barry's Newman; The Macmillan Co., of Brastow's Representative Modern Preachers. Through the courtesy of these and others the use of material has been permitted.
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