REV. F. B. HUNTINGTON'S 



FAST DAT SEEMON 



REVIEWED. 



On Thursday, April 5th, 1855, on the occasion of the 

 annual '•' Fast " appointed by the Governor of Massachu- 

 setts, the Rev. F. D. Huntington, Pastor of the Ogn- 

 gregational Unitarian Society of Boston, for the text of his 

 discourse made choice of the following portion of, the 

 twenty-second verse of the twelfth chapter of Proverbs : 

 " Lying lips are abaminatiort to the Lord.^' 



The audience .present upon this occasion embraced a 

 highly intelligent and goodly array of talent, a,nd the listen- 

 ers to the discourse which succeeded the announcement of 

 the above theme were attentive, and were more than ordi- 

 narily interested during its delivery. The reverend gen- 

 tleman divided his subject in form, and launched fottb, at 

 length, upon the deceits of the present day, and the follies 

 and foibles that are current in this " progressive " age. 



On Friday, April 6th, the editor of the Boston Even- 

 ing Transcript allowed one of its apparently friendly 

 correspondents to furnish for that paper a nominally 

 "brief" description of this remarkably interesting sermon, 

 in the course of which communication the writer stated* 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1855, by GEO. P. BURNHAM, tn tho 

 Clerk^ Office of ttie District Gourt of the District of Massachusetts. 

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