Excerpt from Our Sunday Talks: Or Gleanings in Various Fields of Thought Under the general heading of Our Sunday Talks, most of the matter Of the following pages has appeared, from time to time, in the Sunday editions of the san jose daily mercury. The shorter articles and poems have also appeared in the same paper. Upon the solicitation of a number of readers, who seem to think these matters worthy of preservation in book form, I have here brought them together, revised and pruned of the crudities and imperfections that marred their first appear ance, - written, as they usually were, like most of the editorials of a daily paper, under the spur, with but little time for reflec tion, and none for revision In this second edition I have added a large number Of new topics, thereby giving the work a more comprehensive scope. Hoping that these Talks may be received in the friendly spirit in which they were uttered; and further, that they may be the means of helping some strug gling soul to clearer views of life and duty, this little volume is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.