THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON PREACHED IN ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ON SUNDAY EVENING, DEC. 10, 1848; BY THE REV.  JOHN C. MILLER, M.A., RECTOR OF ST. MARTIN’S. IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE BURNING OF A SCHOOL GIRL’S COPY OF THE AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, BY A PRIEST OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH. BIRMINGHAM: BENJAMIN HALL. Price Threepence , or Sixteen Shillings per Hundred . VISITATION SERMON—Neglect of the Holy Spirit a Main Hindranc

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