SIX LECTURES, ON CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY AND ARDOR BY THE REV. JAMES HAMILTON, NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS; FERVENT IN SPIRIT ; SERVING THE LORD. Rom. xii. 11. NEW YORK : ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS 285 BROADWAY. 1853. TO THE KIRK-SESSION AND CONGREGATION OF THE NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REGENT SQUARE. MY DEAR FRIENDS: IT sometimes adds to the interest, and even to the usefulness of a book, to know the reason of its publication. I may therefore mention in the outset, that it is for your sakes that the following pages appear in print. As all my efforts can not secure that amount of pastoral intercourse for which I long, I felt desirous of sending |