"Entered, according to act of congress, in the year 1832, by Rev. Ebenezer Mason,

in the clerk's office of the southern district of New York."

SLEIGHT AND ROBINSON, PRINTERS.

PREFACE.

THE public character of the late Dr. MASON has made the publication of some of his writings desirable to his friends, and due to the community. The task of collecting together and selecting from them materials for publication, assigned to me by the family, was undertaken from a sense of duty, and has been discharged according to the ability possessed. The result is submitted to the public in these volumes.

Those who knew the author as a public man, and were not acquainted with his situation and engagements, may be surprised to learn that the materials for publication were so scanty. It is much to be regretted that one who was so preeminent in his day should leave so few manu