THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND OTHER LECTURES ON PRAYER. BY THE REV. JAMES HAMILTON, NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REGENT'S SQUARE. Author of "Harp on the Willows," "Life in Earnest," & THIRD EDITION. NEW-YORK. ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL-STREET. 1847 то THE KIRK SESSION AND CONGREGATION OF THE NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REGENT SQUARE. MY DEAR FRIENDS.-Of all ministerial employments -and some of them are exceedingly delightful—there is none in which I am so happy, nor so sure that I am profitably engaged, as when meditating over, and writing down, the truths of the Bible for your benefit. These sometimes come out to view with a vividness and beauty which words cannot perpetuate, but still with a radiance which, to my own memory, lingers on many texts, and has left an entrancement round days and places devoted to their study. And just as I rejoice when a day of uninvaded leisure secures some fresh materials for the edification and comfort of that beloved people whose welfare lies nearest my heart; so I have sometimes had to mourn when personal exhaustion, or stormy weather, or some adverse incident on Sabbath, frustrated the meditation of the week. There is the two-fold sadness, that |