Excerpt from The Atkinson Memorial Discourses Dear Sir: - The undersigned, Committee of the Atkinson Universalist Society, in behalf of the people of your charge, having listened with much profit to the many Sermons you have discoursed to this Society, - and believing that much good would result in the publication of the same, do most earnestly desire and request that you may arrange for publication such a number of Occasional and other discourses here preached, as you may deem best calculated to instruct and profit the rising generation, into whose hands they may providentially fall. In obedience to the request made, as well as in response to many personal invitations, this work has been prepared for publication. Considerable latitude being given in regard to selection, such discourses have been taken as contain a common average of doctrinal as well as practical sentiment. Neither of them were written at a time when existing circumstances did not demand my attention for other work. 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.