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PREFACE.
Moral and Religious culture to a subordinate place. The reader would do me the greatest wrong in attributing to me any such intention. My most serious convictions and I hope too, my own practice as the father of a family are decisively opposed to so fatal an error.
Having made this profession which I do with some earnestness of feeling, it will not, perhaps be required of me to state my reasons for avoiding at present those subjects to which in fact, I attach supreme importance.
Stanford Rivers.
