Misread Passages of Scriptures

Misread Passages of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown has a preface describing the accompanying Sermons on Misread Passages of Scripture as part of a series which the author projected, but which through ill health he has been unable to complete. The contents list names pieces called The Kingdom of Christ and The Dues of Cæsar and of Christ, among others. One sermon says the meat spoken of is meat which had been offered in an idolatrous temple, and which might be supposed by those who had not the lofty intelligence of the apostle to have contracted some moral contamination.

A passage urges readers not to be afraid of working lest their toil should be fruitless, and says there is no fruitless labour and that every hammer-stroke on the forge of duty welds something which will outlast eternity. A passage says we prefer the slave's portion, with the slave's security, to the cares and burdens of freedom, and that the main difficulty in the emancipation of serfs arises always from themselves.