Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1869, by FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. DEDICATION. I DEDICATE this book to the SUFFOLK UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK. At the meeting which formed that Society the provision for better homes in cities was publicly declared to be the first work of Christian reform. At every meeting since some person has enforced the same necessity. SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BOSTON, September 18, 1869. EDWARD E. HALE. |