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THE

BLOOD COVENANT

A PRIMITIVE RITE

AND ITS BEARINGS ON SCRIPTURE

BY

H. CLAY TRUMBULL

Author of "Kadesh-Barnea," "Friendship the Master-Passion," etc.

SECOND EDITION, WITH A SUPPLEMENT

PHILADELPHIA

JOHN D. WATTLES

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

It was while engaged in the preparation of a book -still unfinished-on the Sway of Friendship in the World's Forces,' that I came upon facts concerning the primitive rite of covenanting by the inter-transfusion of blood, which induced me to turn aside from my other studies, in order to pursue investigations in this direction.

Having an engagement to deliver a series of lectures before the Summer School of Hebrew, under Professor W. R. Harper, of Chicago, at the buildings of the Episcopal Divinity School, in Philadelphia, I decided to make this rite and its linkings the theme of that series; and I delivered three lectures, accordingly, June 16-18, 1885.

The interest manifested in the subject by those who heard the Lectures, as well as the importance of the theme itself, has seemed sufficient to warrant its presentation to a larger public. In this publishing, the form of the original Lectures has, for convenience' sake, been adhered to; although some considerable

1 Since published, with the title of "Friendship the Master-Passion."

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