BY WILLIAM A STEARNS,
Pastor of the Evangelical Congregational Church, Cambridgeport.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

47 Washington-street.

1844.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844,

BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO THE MEMBERS

OF THE

SUFFOLK NORTH ASSOCIATION;

TO THE

CONGREGATIONAL CLERGYMEN OF NEW-ENGLAND;

AND TO ALL

PARENTS IN COVENANT WITH GOD;

THIS VOLUME

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.