Excerpt from Words of a Friend: On the Foundation, Difficulties, Helps and Triumphs of a Religious Life This book contains a-few practical sermons, taken from the traditional barrel which has been filled and turned over'in a professional service of forty years and if any, through a personal inter est in the author, should read these discourses, he hopes that a unity of purpose will be seen in them, although they were written at different times, and amid the diversified circumstances of ordinary pul pit duty. 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.