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Materialism-The Devil-Crime-Drunkenness - Pauperism Emotion-Recreation- The Sabbath.

"Current Coin will be acceptable reading to most persons who are interested in social questions. Mr. Haweis has two prominent virtues as a writer upon such topics, his style is eminently clear, and his sincerity beyond all question."-Pall

Mall Gazette.

"Distinguished by sound good sense, with wide sympathy and liberal views. Mr. Haweis's Essay on Drunkenness will be read with painful interest."Daily News. "Mr. Haweis has already gained for himself a very high position as a clear, fresh, and original thinker."-Standard.

Tenth Edition, Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7s. 6d.

THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.

"Mr. Haweis writes not only fearlessly but with remarkable freshness and vigour. .... As a preacher he commands a large and attentive audience.' Saturday Review.

"Our mental attitude towards the book was rather that of disciple than critic." -Spectator.

"Much originality of thought and individuality of expression."-Pall Mall Gazette.

Fourth Edition, Crown 8vo, cloth, price gs.

SPEECH IN SEASON.

"These discourses prove Mr. Haweis to be the possessor of rare gifts of eloquence."-Spectator.

"Both in the thought and in language Mr. Haweis's discourses differ considerably from those ordinarily delivered from the pulpit."-Pall Mall Gazette. "There is in them that which will commend them to the approval of the reading public. They are marked by a freshness and novelty of treatment, a catholicity of spirit, and an earnestness of faith which make them pleasant and profitable reading, even to those who may least concur in the views of the preacher. . . . All the subjects are treated with great power."-Leeds Mercury.

Second Edition, Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.

UNSECTARIAN FAMILY PRAYERS. For Morning and Evening for a week, with short selected passages from the Bible.

"These prayers are tender, devotional, and helpful, and may be used with great profit in any household. They are brief, but very beautiful."-Christian

World.

LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL AND CO., I, PATERNOSTER

SQUARE.

Sermons

ARROWS IN THE AIR.

BY THE

REV. H. R. HAWEIS, M.A.,

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99.66

Author of" Current Coin," "Thoughts for the Times,'
"Unsectarian Family Prayers," &c. &c.

Speech in Season,"

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

C. KEGAN PAUL AND CO., I, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

ANDOVER-HARVARD ·
THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

JUL 16 1913

HARVARD
DIVINITY SCHOOL

H42,047

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PREFACE.

ONGFELLOW has said,—

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I know not where.

The arrow was a song, and he found it again in the heart of a friend.

The words of a public speaker are indeed like these arrowy songs-swiftly they speed, and many are the random shots which fall to the earth we know not where. But some seem winged with a more attractive power - they speed, the preacher knows not how, straight to the mark.

I venture to hope that not a few of the shafts in "Thoughts for the Times," "Speech in

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