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&LINDS AY  \n83 CEN TBE STEEET。  \n1865.W2  \n25183  \nEntered aecording to Act of Congress,in the year 1865,By C.F.SMARIUS,  \nIn the Clerk's Omce of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New York,  \nRENNTE,SHEA &LINDSAY,ST就KOTYFgB8 AND ELECTBOTYPELE  \n81,83k85 Centre-tret,Nsw YoRK,  \n# PREFACE.\n\nTHE little volume which we present to theAmerican public,in the form of doctrinal lec-tures,was written for no other purpose,than,with the assistance of Divine Grace,to convertsouls to God.Our missionary experience hastaught us,that though by no means necessary,a plain,simple work like the present,mayprove useful to a great number of Catholics,Protestants,and Indifferentists in religion,whotreat books as they do the fashions,droppingone to adopt another,almost every season.There is no lack of short controversial worksin our Catholic Theological literature,andmost of those that are in the market,have,doubtless,more intrinsic merit than our lec-tures.Yet zeal prompts us to add them tothe stock,in the hope that they may find a fewreaders,to whom they may prove of some  \nspiritual service.We shall consider ourselvesamply rewarded for our labor,if they be in-strumental in leading even one soul to abjureerror and embrace the truth as it is in ChristJesus.  \nAlas!how many millions of our fellow men,redeemed by the precious blood of the Saviour,are daily lost to the Church and to Heaven,who,if we exerted ourselves a little more in theirbehalf,might be reseued from darkness and theshadow of eternal death!How much could bedone towards converting our countrymen,ifwe Catholics joined works of zeal and charityto fervent prayer!If we were untiring inour efforts to spread instruction and usefulbooks,tracts,and pamphlets among them,asan antidote against the many slanderous pub-lications which are put forth in hostility to us.How much sinful ignorance would be removedfrom among the children of the Church them-selves,if,instead of subseribing to and 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