COMMON SENSE
APPLIED TO
RELIGION;
OR,
THE BIBLE AND THE PEOPLE.

BY CATHARINE E. BEECHER.

AUTHOR OF "LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE ON HEALTH AND HAPPINESS,"
"PHYSIOLOGY AND CALISTHENICS," "DOMESTIC ECONOMY,"
"DOMESTIC RECEIPT-BOOK," &c., &c.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.

MONTREAL: BENJAMIN DAWSON.
1857.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

TO
THE PEOPLE,
AS
THE SAFEST AND TRUEST INTERPRETERS OF
THE BIBLE,
AND
TO WOMAN,
AS
THE HEAVEN-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF MIND,
THIS WORK
Is respectfully Dedicated.