Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

iv PREFACE.
save in the memory of his hearers. To gather up and
preserve some of the treasures thus lavishly scattered, has
been the aim of this volume. It is not given to the world
as the full-boughed tree; but only as some of the leaves
which have fallen from it through two successive seasons.
To Robert D. Benedict, Esq., of Brooklyn, whose own
notes, taken during the same time, were placed at my disposal, I desire to express my cordial thanks.
EDNA DEBAN PROCTOR.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., April, 1868.