"The Preacher", in The Index: A Weekly Paper (Feb. 5, 1880) pp. 62–3. Originally written as a parlor-lecture to some Divinity students, in 1867; afterwards enlarged from earlier writings, and read in its present form at the Divinity Chapel, Cambridge, MA, May 5, 1879
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