AS A SCRIPTURE SYMBOL:

BAPTISM:

AND

THE HOLY SUPPER.

THREE DISCOURSES.

BY WILLIAM B. HAYDEN.

BOSTON:

OTIS CLAPP, 23 SCHOOL STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

WILLIAM B. HAYDEN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

PREFACE.

THE following Discourses were prepared in the ordinary routine of professional duties, and delivered at the New Jerusalem Temple in Portland during the year now passing. They have since been repeated elsewhere. It may naturally excite the surprise of some, that sermons so prepared should be allowed to find their way into print. Other opinions than those of the writer have prevailed to that result. It has been thought that their publication might perform some use, in the midst of the many things that are now being said on similar subjects both within the New Church and out of it. The contents are commended to the religious affections of the reader rather than to his critical judgment; and if any thing here written shall have the effect to call re