“And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,—Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants.”—_Luke_ xv. 17-19. _LECTURE IX._ THE COMFORTER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHO DWELLETH IN US, AND TEACHETH ALL THINGS. _BY REV. JOHN HAMILTON THOM._ “If ye love me, keep my commandments: and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.”—_John_ xiv. 15-18. _LECTURE X._ CREEDS THE FOES OF HEAVENLY FAITH; THE ALLIES OF WORLDLY POLICY. _BY REV. HENRY GILES._ “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”—_Rom._ xiv. 5. _LECTURE XI._ THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF MORAL EVIL. _BY REV. JAMES MARTINEAU._ “Woe unto them that say, ... let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it; woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”—_Isaiah_ v. 18-20. _LECTURE XII._ THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF RETRIBUTION HEREAFTER. _BY REV. HENRY GILES._ “And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said the Lord, Thou hast pity on the gourd for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?”—_Jonah_ iv. 9, 10, 11. _LECTURE XIII._ CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT PRIEST, AND WITHOUT RITUAL. _BY REV. JAMES MARTINEAU._ “To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”—1 _Pet._ ii. 4, 5. _INDEX OF TEXTS._ EXPLAINED OR REFERRED TO IN LECTURES II. V. VI. XI. XIII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CORRESPONDENCE ON THE