Excerpt from Saturday Evenings: A Series of Moral and Religious Essays Ir is With unfeigned diffidence, that the writer of these Essays offers them to the public. Conscious that they possess no claim to origmality, it is yet hoped that they may suggest some useful hint, or open to the mind pure and soothing trains of thought While the observations gathered in the onward course of busy years, may be of benefit to those with whom life is still untried, or to others, who, perplexed by its cares, and humed by its business, find little leisure for calm reflec. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.