FAST DAY SERMON REVIEWED. 13 



In reply to my letter of April 7th, already quoted, the 

 Rev. Mr. Huntington addressed me the following conimuni- 

 oation, a few days since. 



Sighlands, Roxbury, April 9th, 1855. 

 Geo. p. Burnham, Esq., Russet House, Melrose. 



Dear Sir : Your note of the 7th inst. has just come to 

 hand. 



You have been misinformed respecting the contents of 

 my Fast Day sermon. There was nothing in that discourse, . 

 I am quite sure, inconsistent with the strictest justice, or 

 the truest charity. It would give me unspeakable pain to 

 believe that I had abused my place by wronging any man. 

 Your informant must have got matters sadly jumbled to- 

 gether. I have " done " you no " evil " at all. 



My strictures on that occasion were aimed at the practice 

 of imposing upon the public, or on individuals, by taking 

 their money for articles which are pretended to be what 

 they are not ; against deceiving men in traffic or in specu- 

 lation ; and against such books as encourage these sins. 

 My language was applied to your work, because some hear- 

 ers considered it as suited to that work. It is an instance 

 of a third party's " putting on the coat " because it fits ! 



A hearer, who is by me at this moment, for example, 



says she had no idea that any allusion was made to the 



" History of the Hen Fever." I referred, in general 



terms, to " a work issued in this neighborhood," but made 



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