Produced by Julia Miller, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, AND OCCASIONAL SERMONS, BY THEODORE PARKER, MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. BOSTON: HORACE B. FULLER, (SUCCESSOR TO WALKER, FULLER, AND COMPANY,) 245, WASHINGTON STREET. 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by THEODORE PARKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. I. A SERMON OF THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF BOSTON.--Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, February 18, 1849 PAGE 1 II. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE MOST CHRISTIAN USE OF THE SUNDAY.--A Sermon preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, January 30, 1848 56 III. A SERMON OF IMMORTAL LIFE.--Preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, September 20, 1846 105 IV. THE PUBLIC EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE.--An Address delivered before the Onondaga Teachers' Institute at Syracuse, New York, October 4, 1849 139 V. THE POLITICAL DESTINATION OF AMERICA, AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.--An Address delivered before several literary Societies in 1848 198 VI. A DISCOURSE OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.--Delivered at the Melodeon, on Sunday, March 5, 1848 252 VII. A SPEECH AT A MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, TO CELEBRATE THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, April 6, 1848 331 VIII. A SPEECH AT FANEUIL HALL, BEFORE THE NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, May 31, 1848 344 IX. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FREE SOIL PARTY, AND THE ELECTION OF GENERAL TAYLOR, December, 1848 360 A SERMON OF THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF BOSTON.--PREACHED AT THE MELODEON, ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1849. MATTHEW VIII. 20. By their fruits ye shall know them.