From the Rev. James Milnor, D.D., Rector of St. George's Church. DEAR SIR, June 11, 1823. I HAVE read, with great interest and delight, the Sermons of the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, and am glad that you contemplate their republication. Mr. C. is well known as a writer; and the volume with which you propose to favour the public will by no means detract from his literary reputation, while it exhibits him in the interesting character of an able, evangelical, and impressive preacher of the gospel. I am persuaded these Sermons are calculated to be very useful to those who may peruse them, and I hope they may be generally read. Yours respectfully, JAMES MILNOR, MR. W. B. GILLEY. From the Rev. Jonathan M. Wainwright, Rector of Grace Church. It is believed that the reader of this volume will not be disappointed in the pleasure and improvement he may reasonably anticipate from a publication by the author of The World without Souls, and the Velvet Cushion. It contains a collection of Sermons, which, for interest of matter and eloquence of style, have appeared to the subscriber among the best of a practical nature which have lately issued from the press. JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT. From the Rev. John B. Romeyn, D.D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Cedar-street. THE REV. Mr. Cunningham's Sermons, for talent and eloquence, are worthy of the author of "The World without Souls," while they do not discover in so great a degree the spirit of sect which characterizes his "Velvet Cushion." The same powers of a master mind are displayed in these Sermons, as in those works. To these powers are superadded a fervency of piety, a correctness of scriptural doctrine, and an unction of the Holy Ghost, which will not fail to commend them to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. JOHN B. ROMEYN. |