ON

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.

BY

JOSHUA BATES, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN DUDLEY, MASS.

ANDOVER:

PRINTED BY ALLEN, MORRILL & WARD WELL.

ADVERTISEMENT.

SOME of the Lectures in this volume were written, and first delivered in Dedham, Mass., while I was pastor of the first Congregational church in that place. Others were prepared in Middlebury, Vt., during the period of my connection with Middlebury College, and addressed to the students of that Institution. Others still, were written in the city of Washington, D. C., and delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, while I was acting as chaplain of the TwentySixth Congress of the United States, in the winter of 1839 and 1840.

They are now, in connection with two or three discourses, more recently prepared, committed to the press, by the request of particular friends, and with the hope, that they will be acceptable and useful to all who read them.

DUDLEY, MARCH 20, 1846.

JOSHUA BATES.